Poll of Polls: Trump has big lead in SC, nationwide

Ted Cruz is daring Donald Trump to sue him over an ad running in SC that questions his record on abortion, rejecting the billionaire businessman’s complaints and vowing instead to run the ad “more frequently” because voters “deserve to know the truth”.

Three of the six remaining Republican presidential candidates battled each other for more than two hours in a town hall forum broadcast live by CNN from Greenville, S.C. The forum took place only three days before the SC primary, the first southern contest of the 2016 presidential election.

Cruz dared Trump to sue him over a campaign ad featuring a 1999 video clip of the former reality TV star saying he was “very pro-choice” on abortion.

“You have been threatening frivolous lawsuits for your entire adult life”.

Trump has attacked Cruz because of ads that slammed Trump as a NY liberal rather than a traditional conservative who holds traditional values.

Cruz said a lawsuit against the ad has no chance, and said he would like to take Trump’s deposition himself.

Trump and Rubio are “repeatedly putting forth fabrications with no evidence, no basis whatsoever, just trying to throw mud and attack”, Cruz said.

While Mr Trump has a track record of causing outrage and seeing his lead in the race for the Republican nomination only rise, it is early favourite Jeb Bush’s hopes that are now in peril. The GOP presidential candidate said his rival is a totally “unstable” individual and the “biggest liar he has ever came across”.

“I am strongest on illegal immigration, strongest on ISIS, strongest on the military and I will take care of our Vets”, he said in a statement, as per Business Insider.

“One of the things I look forward to most of all is deposing Donald Trump“.

In the MSNBC forum, Trump responded to several questions about his hard-hitting campaign style and his temperament. Warning against a Trump vote, he said: “But we do not need somebody in the Oval Office who mirrors and inflames our anger and frustration”.

“Apple and probably a lot of other people don’t probably necessarily trust the government these days”, he said. Cruz accused Rubio, a Florida senator, of joining with Senate Democrats on an “amnesty plan”, spurring Rubio to denounce the Texas senator for spreading “lies”.

And Rubio, a Florida senator, has been nipping at Cruz’s heels in South Carolina – Wednesday he got the coveted endorsement of the state’s Gov. Nikki Haley. “I was a little disappointed in CBS and the moderators in that they kind of let the debate and the crowd get out of control”, Rep. Jeff Duncan, who represented Cruz in the spin room, said. Likewise, if I want to bring the lawsuit regarding Senator Cruz being a natural born Canadian I will do so.

During a Monday press conference, Trump said the calls were “much more severe than anything that you had” during the Iowa caucuses.

“They are right now are in the closing period of a campaign”, Cruz said, adding his campaign is “focused on any accomplishments that Rubio has”. “And Trump is dominant with the swath of voters that doesn’t like George W. Bush, getting 57 percent to 12 percent for Kasich, and 11 percent each for Cruz and Rubio”.

Trump said the Iowa Republican party should disqualify Cruz’s win “if they had any guts”.