Donald Trump: Ted Cruz a ‘very nasty guy'
US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is increasing attacks on his closest rival, Senator Ted Cruz, just weeks before the primary elections begin for the 2016 presidential race.
"I don't think Ted Cruz has a great chance, to be honest with you," Trump told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos in an interview on Sunday. "Look, the truth is, he's a nasty guy.”
“Nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him. Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him. He's a very –- he's got an edge that's not good. You can't make deals with people like that and it's not a good thing. It's not a good thing for the country. Very nasty guy," Trump added.
Trump also criticized Cruz for a loan that he took out from Goldman Sachs during his 2012 Senate run that he failed to disclose in federal campaign finance documents.
"He's a total hypocrite. How about his fundraising and how about when he does his personal financial disclosure form, and he doesn't put on that he's borrowing money from Goldman Sachs? And then today it comes out that he's also borrowing money from CitiBank and he doesn't list it." Trump told Stephanopoulos.
"You know why? He wants to look like Robin Hood that he's the one protecting the people from the banks while he's actually borrowing money and personally guaranteeing it and not disclosing it, which is illegal."
Trump, a billionaire from New York and Cruz, a senator from Texas, ended a longstanding truce during the sixth GOP presidential debate on Thursday in North Charleston, South Carolina.
The two leading candidates clashed in their sharpest and most personal encounters of the presidential race during the 2.5-hour debate.
Cruz strongly rejected Trump's accusations that he isn't eligible to be president because he was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father.
A RealClearPolitics daily average national poll on January 15 showed Trump had 34.5 percent support among Republican voters, while Cruz had 19.3 percent.
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