WASHINGTON: Republican front-runner Donald Trump resurrected accusations against rival Ted Cruz’s father, Rafael Cruz, saying that he was with President John F. Kennedy’s assassin Lee Harvey Oswald prior
to his death.
“The whole thing is ridiculous,” Trump said on Tuesday. “Right prior to his being shot, and nobody brings it up. They don’t even talk about that.”
A recent report claimed that the elder Cruz appeared in a 1963 photo of Oswald as he handed out leaflets for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
The Cruz campaign has denied the accusations. Trump holds a double-digit polling lead in Indiana state over Cruz.
Fresh off a sweep of five Northeastern states last week, Trump wants a win in Indiana to put him within reach of the 1,237 delegates required to lock up the Republican nomination before the party’s convention in July.
“If we win Indiana, it’s over,” Trump told a cheering crowd in Terre Haute, Indiana, on the eve of the vote.
Cruz has trumpeted Indiana, one of the last big states in the fight to get on the Nov. 8 presidential ballot, as his golden moment to stop Trump and force a brokered nomination at the convention.
Trump now has 996 delegates, compared with 565 for Cruz and 153 for Ohio Gov. John Kasich, according to The Associated Press. Another 57 delegates are up for grabs in Indiana, a state that has voted Republican in nine of the last 10 presidential elections.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton’s supporters said she might have offended voters in politically important coal country with what she acknowledge was a misstatement — but at least she’s willing to acknowledge her own mistakes. Trump, they say, “never apologizes for anything.”
Clinton has spent recent days West Virginia and Kentucky being heckled and explaining that she had made a “misstatement” in March when she said in an interview on CNN that she would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
She was responding to a question about how her policies would benefit poor white people in Southern states. She said Monday that “whether people vote for me or not, whether they yell at me or not, it’s not going to affect what I will do to help.”
Democratic National Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz told CNN Tuesday that Clinton didn’t change the substance of her plans for poor people in the region, adding that “when you say something that comes out in a hurtful way” it helps to let them know you still care about them.
Democratic strategist Brad Woodhouse added on the same network that the episode showed that Clinton is “someone who’s willing to admit a misstatement.” He said Trump, on the other hand, “is someone who never apologizes for anything.”
to his death.
“The whole thing is ridiculous,” Trump said on Tuesday. “Right prior to his being shot, and nobody brings it up. They don’t even talk about that.”
A recent report claimed that the elder Cruz appeared in a 1963 photo of Oswald as he handed out leaflets for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
The Cruz campaign has denied the accusations. Trump holds a double-digit polling lead in Indiana state over Cruz.
Fresh off a sweep of five Northeastern states last week, Trump wants a win in Indiana to put him within reach of the 1,237 delegates required to lock up the Republican nomination before the party’s convention in July.
“If we win Indiana, it’s over,” Trump told a cheering crowd in Terre Haute, Indiana, on the eve of the vote.
Cruz has trumpeted Indiana, one of the last big states in the fight to get on the Nov. 8 presidential ballot, as his golden moment to stop Trump and force a brokered nomination at the convention.
Trump now has 996 delegates, compared with 565 for Cruz and 153 for Ohio Gov. John Kasich, according to The Associated Press. Another 57 delegates are up for grabs in Indiana, a state that has voted Republican in nine of the last 10 presidential elections.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton’s supporters said she might have offended voters in politically important coal country with what she acknowledge was a misstatement — but at least she’s willing to acknowledge her own mistakes. Trump, they say, “never apologizes for anything.”
Clinton has spent recent days West Virginia and Kentucky being heckled and explaining that she had made a “misstatement” in March when she said in an interview on CNN that she would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
She was responding to a question about how her policies would benefit poor white people in Southern states. She said Monday that “whether people vote for me or not, whether they yell at me or not, it’s not going to affect what I will do to help.”
Democratic National Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz told CNN Tuesday that Clinton didn’t change the substance of her plans for poor people in the region, adding that “when you say something that comes out in a hurtful way” it helps to let them know you still care about them.
Democratic strategist Brad Woodhouse added on the same network that the episode showed that Clinton is “someone who’s willing to admit a misstatement.” He said Trump, on the other hand, “is someone who never apologizes for anything.”
