WEST DES MOINES, Iowa – At Ted Cruz’s rally Wednesday night, it was all about Donald Trump.
Whether the Texas Senator was going on at length about how “gentle Donald” is too afraid of Fox News debate moderator Megyn Kelly to show up Thursday night, comparing the candidates views on abortion, or detailing a potential time, place, and host for a “mano-a-mano” face-off Saturday in Sioux City, the firm focus was on the GOP front-runner
“We have the venue. We have the time. All we’re missing is the candidate,” Cruz thundered.
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He and the six surrogates who introduced him spoke at length about abortion, seemingly in hopes of highlighting Trump’s less zealous opposition to the issue. Cruz is indeed to the right of Trump, who supports the rape and incest exceptions to abortion legislation and doesn’t want to pull government funding for Planned Parenthood just because the organization performs abortions with outside funds. Cruz’s campaign issued an ad earlier this week to highlight these and other more liberal views that Trump professed in the 1990s, all of which underscores just how crucial the Cruz camp thinks evangelical voters are to his candidacy.









