The nickname “Lyin’ Ted” isn’t gone yet, according to a top Donald Trump adviser.
“I wouldn’t be too sure to erase that,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s senior adviser, said when asked by CNN’s Chris Cuomo if “we’ve heard the last of ‘Lyin’ Ted.'”
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“My guess is it’ll still pop up from time to time,” she said on CNN’s “New Day” Wednesday morning. “And I think a lot of that will depend on how Ted Cruz reacts over the next few days and what his campaign does over the next few days and in the next couple of contests, how you may see Donald Trump react to that.”
Trump took home a commanding win in the New York primary Tuesday over the Texas senator, who came in third place behind John Kasich and failed to capture any of the state’s delegates. The Republican presidential front-runner has referred to Cruz on the campaign trail as “Lyin’ Ted,” but in his short victory speech Tuesday evening in New York, called him “Sen. Cruz.”
“I think what we’re seeing is him become a general election candidate and setting his sights on Hillary [Clinton] and certainly making that his new focus,” Huckabee Sanders explained.
