Donald Trump didn’t hit back hard at Ted Cruz, but he couldn’t let the Texas senator’s dismissive private comments about his candidacy, which surfaced this week, go by without taking a shot.
Or two.
Trump, speaking to a crowd of several hundred people inside an auditorium at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, mocked Cruz, who has been remarkably deferential to Trump. Earlier Friday, Cruz sought to assuage Trump by tweeting that the billionaire mogul is a “great guy” and that the media is trying to spark a fight between them.
“Everything I say he agrees with me, no matter what I say,” Trump said, picking up on television ads from the ethanol lobby attacking Cruz for opposing the industry’s favorite subsidy, the Renewable Fu
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