“Maybe it was through, you know, hand telegraph maybe sign language. “It came as a complete surprise to me that he had been pressing me maybe it was some medium that I’m not familiar with,” McCain told Politico. Last spring, McCain derided Cruz after Cruz boasted he had been leaning on McCain to loosen restrictions regarding guns on military bases. Dole, who suffered a disabling injury while serving in World War II, had come to the Senate floor in his wheelchair to lobby for passage of the treaty.īob Dole likes every GOP candidate in the field-except for the one he whispers at the end of this video: įighting words: McCain called Cruz, Sen. He claimed the accord threatened American sovereignty. But the feud with Dole began in 2014, when Cruz led a last-minute push to defeat the UN Treaty on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities. The beef: Last fall, Cruz mocked the failed candidacies of Dole, Mitt Romney, and John McCain, citing their efforts as evidence of the electoral impotence of mainline Republicans.
If you want to call somebody a liar in the Senate, you go to their office-you don’t go on the Senate floor and make it public.” He called the leader of the Republicans a liar on the Senate floor. Here is a quick guide to Cruz’s loudest detractors: Bob Doleįighting words: The 1996 Republican presidential nominee and former senator from Kansas told the New York Times last week that Cruz would be an ineffective president because “nobody likes him.” He explained: “He doesn’t have any friends in Congress. But there are plenty of others, including prominent Republicans, who have not been shy about sharing their feelings about Cruz on the record. It may be easy for someone to lob anonymous shots at Cruz. Bush couldn’t stand the guy.” This person adds, “It’s a real quandary for Bush campaign people: Trump versus Cruz, who to vote for? And it would be a big quandary even if it’s Cruz versus Hillary Clinton. “No one wanted to work with him,” this source remembers. The Bush vet goes on: “I don’t know anyone who had a decent relationship with Cruz.” And when Bush became president, his top campaign aides agreed Cruz should not be offered a job in the White House. That’s exactly what he was: a big asshole.” It was his inability to be part of the team. People wouldn’t go to a meeting if they knew he would be there.
He would come to meetings where he wasn’t invited-and wasn’t wanted.” In fact, this Bush alum recalls, “the quickest way for a meeting to end would be for Ted to come in. He would send memos on everything to everyone. He was a policy guy, but he would push his ideas on campaign strategy. He would offer up opinions on everything, even matters outside his portfolio. “He was a smart and talented guy, but completely taken with himself and his own ideas. “Ted thought he was an expert on everything,” says this campaign veteran, who asked not to be named. “That’s exactly what he was: a big asshole,” says a campaign veteran who worked with Cruz. (Cruz, he noted, never objected to Bush’s call for compassionate conservatism, immigration reform, and national education standards, and no one on the campaign regarded him as an ideologue.) The problem was simple: his personality. This person described Cruz as hyper-arrogant and widely despised, and he emphasized-over and over-that the pervasive dislike of Cruz within the Bush ranks had nothing to do with ideology. Bush’s 2000 campaign could barely contain himself when we asked him to discuss Cruz, who worked in the campaign’s policy shop. As Cruz has quickly climbed the political ladder, he has left a long line of associates who complain, without much prompting, that he is an insufferable schmuck.Ī prominent aide to George W. Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him.” For members of the politerati, this was no revelation. “He’s a nasty guy,” Trump recently huffed.
With the bromance between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump over, the mogul turned GOP front-runner has begun trash talking the senator from Texas.
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