Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has begun fundraising against rival Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Cruz spent months on the campaign trail dodging and ducking any opportunity to trash Trump. The two men atop the polls in Iowa have since begun sparring about how each others’ birthplaces — Canada and New York — help show the other candidate to be unfit for higher office.
With under one week to go until Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, Cruz blasted out a fundraising pitch explaining, “My friend Donald Trump is attacking and misleading voters.”
“When I first announced my campaign, Heidi [Cruz’s wife] and I committed that we would run an issues-oriented, positive campaign. Unfortunately, my friend, Donald Trump, didn’t make that same commitment,” Cruz wrote in the fundraising pitch. “Donald — rattled by my surge in the polls — has decided the best way to boost his campaign and distract voters from his record is to tear me down. If the record is not set straight, he might get away with it … and in only eight days, voting starts. So, I need your immediate help.”
Cruz pledges to win Iowa, secure the GOP presidential nomination and set the record straight against Trump. The senator urges supporters to make a donation knowing that it will send a “big message” to Trump: that “tearing others down and misleading voters is not the best way to unite conservatives and make America great again.”
Cruz, who ranks first in the Washington Examiner‘s newest GOP presidential power rankings, is stumping in Iowa on Monday. Trump, who ranks second, will campaign in New Hampshire.
