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Ted Cruz references Donald Trump's grating 'Lyin' Ted' moniker

Supporters of Texas senator Ted Cruz let out a round of 'boos' when he said the GOP had a nominee, as Cruz brought up his hated nickname, 'Lyin' Ted.'




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Ivanka Trump jabs her finger as the entire family shoot daggers at Ted Cruz 

Ivanka Trump was photographed jabbing her finger as her other siblings sat nearby looking stoic during Ted Cruz's speech Wednesday night in Cleveland, Ohio at the RNC.




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Ted Cruz doubles down on RNC speech and insists he WON'T endorse Donald Trump

Ted Cruz refused to back down on his convention speech where he refused to endorse Donald Trump: 'I wasn't elected to do the convenient thing, I was elected to do what's right,' he said on Thursday.




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Donald Trump says he 'saved' Ted Cruz from being 'ripped off stage' at RNC

Failed Republican presidential candidate Cruz sparked uproar at the conference on Wednesday when he refused to endorse Trump.




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Donald Trump goes all-in on bashing Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump called his Democratic rival 'the devil' on Monday in a high-profile escalation of his campaign rhetoric – at precisely the moment he needed to change the subject.




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Ted Cruz endorses Donald Trump after calling him a 'pathological liar'

'Last year, I promised to support the Republican nominee. And I intend to keep my word,' Cruz wrote on Facebook, adding that 'by any measure Hillary Clinton is wholly unacceptable.'




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Donald Trump gives Cabinet selection the Apprentice treatment

Donald Trump has reacted to the ongoing rumors of chaos in his transition team with a bizarre remark that sounded more like an Apprentice line than a message from the President-elect.




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Trump auditioned Ted Cruz for US attorney general and discuss 'first 100 days agenda'

Moderate GOP senators would like to see Cruz move to the administration so he can't stand in their way with stunts and filibusters. He wouldn't comment Tuesday about his chances.




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Trump transition team fight over Ted Cruz and Kris Kobach for attorney general

A fight is brewing among forces behind the Trump transition over the future of the Justice Department, with rival factions jockeying for Ted Cruz or Kris Kobach as attorney general.




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Ted Cruz sites Trump's 'powerful mandate' and vows to work with him

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is hailing the 'powerful mandate for change' that President-elect Donald Trump secured with his election, praising a bitter former primary rival.




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Ted and Heidi Cruz dine with Trump despite ugly campaign

Ted Cruz one of President Trump's top political rivals in 2016, said the president and first lady were 'warm and gracious' when they hosted the senator and his family at the White House.




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Republicans praise Trump for Syrian airstrikes

Republican Senators John McCain and Ted Cruz applauded Donald Trump for ordering airstrikes on Syria on Thursday night saying he deserves the support of American people.




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Trump considering Ted Cruz as replacement attorney general

Ted Cruz is reportedly near the top of Donald Trump's list of choices to potentially replace Jeff Sessions as attorney general, should the Alabaman be fired by the president.




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Ted Cruz hits out at Trump's response to North Korea

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, wasn't willing to fully endorse President Trump's 'fire and fury' rhetoric, which he used with North Korea last month.




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Don Trump Jr and Ted Cruz called racist over Obama cookie

President Trump's eldest son and the senator from Texas posed with the cookie on Sunday night in Dallas restaurant Le Bilboquet, where they were celebrating a mutual friend's birthday party.




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Simpsons' Al Jean slams Ted Cruz for using show in speech

Simpsons showrunner Al Jean (left) was quick to shut down Ted Cruz (right) on Thursday after the Texas senator used the cartoon's characters to make a point.




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Woman asks Ted Cruz to take a DNA test to prove he's human during campaign event in Austin 

Tammy Talpas told Sen Ted Cruz at a campaign event in Austin Tuesday that if he forced her into a high-risk pool it could kill her. She then asked if he would take a DNA test to prove he's human.




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Ted Cruz begs Trump to campaign for him in Texas

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz is begging President Donald Trump to come campaign for him as he faces a tough contest from a rising Democratic star.




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Trump says he'll be stumping for one-time foe Ted Cruz in 'biggest stadium in Texas we can find'

Trump said Friday that he would be campaigning for Cruz after the Republican's home state was noticeably left off the White House's list of mid-term election targets.




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Michael Avenatti to hold 'resistance rally' in Texas the same night Trump holds event for Ted Cruz 

Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels who's weighing a 2020 bid, is holding a 'resistance rally' in Texas the same night President Trump will be campaigning for Sen. Ted Cruz.




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David Hogg's GoFundMe raises early $10K for billboard of Trump's anti-Cruz tweet

David Hogg (left) helped raise money for a billboard of Trump mocking Cruz in a tweet that reads;'Why would the people of Texas support Ted Cruz when he has accomplished absolutely nothing'.




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Heidi Cruz says her husband Ted laughed off Trump's tweet insulting her looks

In the waning days of the U.S. Senate race that could oust her husband from federal office, Heidi Cruz opened up about her marriage and Donald Trump's tweet spilling 'the beans' on her.




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Michael Avenatti calls off promised anti-Trump 'resistance rally'

Avenatti won't bring his anti-Trump rhetoric to Texas on Monday despite his promise last month to 'fight fire with fire' when the president visits Houston.




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Eric Trump boasts that 'ISIS is gone!' in speech at Ted Cruz rally

Both Eric and Lara gave speeches at the Houston rally for Cruz on Monday night. Eric boasted that ISIS no longer exists - despite the Pentagon saying last week it still poses a threat.




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Trump jokes that he needs to nominate Hillary Clinton to the Supreme Court

Trump claimed the 'fake news media', as he called it on Monday night, would only investigate Clinton if he nominated her. He called Kavanaugh a 'fine man' and asked: 'Can you imagine Hillary up there?'




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Ted Cruz hits out at Jim Carrey painting that depicts him as vampire

Carrey's painting shows O'Rourke pulling a curtain to shine light on Cruz. The actor told his followers to make Tuesday like 'the end of every great vampire movie' and 'turn all those bloodsuckers to dust'.




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Ted Cruz jokes Trump's Washington is like 'Game of Thrones': Sessions is Ned and Pelosi is Khalesi

Cruz delivered a jesting speech in Washington, saying the next two years in Trump's Washington will be 'Game of Thrones': 'Mueller is coming ...Trump finally builds a wall to keep the wildlings out.'




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Ted Cruz urges Senate to make El Chapo pay for Trump’s border wall

Senator Ted Cruz repeated his call to use Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's seized assets to fund the construction of President Trump’s promised wall along the Mexican border.




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'I was a giant a**hole': Beto O'Rourke apologized to his campaign staff

Beto O'Rourke apologized to the staff of his Texas Senate campaign for being a 'giant a**hole' during the competitive, high-pressure 2018 race.  




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Trump hints at U-turn and support for indexing capital gains to inflation

Indexing involves taking inflation into account by recalculating an asset's original purchase price when someone sells it. That results in less profit and a lower tax burden.




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Donald Trump walks away from 'elitist' indexing capital gains to inflation

Purchasing a home for $200K in 1999 and selling it today for $600K would result in a capital gain of $400K; under current law $150K of that is taxable, even though $108K of that is solely due to inflation.




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Ted Cruz says Donald Trump's call for China to probe the Bidens was 'NOT' appropriate

Cruz was asked on CBS Face the Nation if Trump should have said China should probe the Biden and said: 'It's not the business of foreign countries to be interfering in our elections.'




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'They don't even allege a crime': Trump adds 'No crime!' to 'No collusion' and 'No obstruction'

Trump claimed Democrats are impeaching him without evidence of a crime. 'I did nothing wrong. This will be the first Impeachment ever where there was no crime. They don't even allege a crime.'




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Senator Ted Cruz says President Donald Trump's impeachment trial could last as long as EIGHT weeks

Cruz joins Senator Lindsey Graham in saying that if the Senate votes to call witnesses, reciprocity rules should apply. That means a witness from the defense is matched for every one from the prosecution.




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Donald Trump loyalist Doug Collins is in self-quarantine and shook hands with president

Georgia rep Doug Collins went to CPAC on Feb. 27 and met the mystery patient zero, he said. He then shook hands with Trump and went to the CDC's Atlanta headquarters last week.




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Republicans skip events over fears of coronavirus but Trump doesn't plan to stop rallies

At least two Republican lawmakers are voluntarily quarantining themselves after claiming they may have been exposed to coronavirus while attending CPAC at the end of last month.




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Cardi B launches bizarre rant at Trump

The 'I Like It' rapper took to Instagram to unleash a blistering and at times bizarre stream of thought directed at the POTUS, comparing him unfavorably to former president Barack Obama.




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Barack Obama tweets op-ed by members of his administration criticizing Trump

Former President Barack Obama has seemingly signaled he agrees with 149 of his former African American staffers who have denounced President Donald Trump's 'racism' in an op-ed on Friday.




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Donald Trump lashes out at Barack Obama for condemning leaders who 'normalize racist sentiments'

Donald Trump struck back at Barack Obama's condemnation of rhetoric he's used, arguing he's the 'least racist person,' and used an edited quote from a 'Fox & Friends' host to back up his point.  




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Biden's first campaign ad attacks Trump, plays up double-digit lead over Democrats

Joe Biden's first campaign ad of the 2020 presidential race, released on Monday, takes an assault on the former vice president's record on race head on and plays up his electability against Donald Trump.




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Trump says Russia should rejoin G7, claims Putin was booted because he 'outsmarted' Obama

Donald Trump said on the eve of the annual Group of Seven summit that it would be 'appropriate' for Russia to retake its seat at the table with the world's most advanced economies.




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Trump says he wants Russia to rejoin the G7 for 'world peace' and claimsObama 'outsmarted' by Putin

Donald Trump says that Russia should be allowed to rejoin the Group of Seven, even though the nation refused to leave Crimea, so he's able to speak to Vladimir Putin  more directly.




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Trump boasts Israeli Jews love him like 'the second coming of God' as he quotes conspiracy theorist

President Donald Trump on Monday quoted conservative radio host Wayne Allen Root, who has backed numerous conspiracy theories, as saying Israeli Jews revere him like 'the King of Israel.'




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White House tries to walk back Trump's call for Russia to rejoin the G7

The White House on Thursday attempted to scale back Donald Trump's claims that he wants Russia back in the G7 after European leaders said Vladimir Putin is not welcome until he relinquished the Crimean Peninsula.




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Joe Biden shocks New Hampshire crowd by asked them to imagine 'if Obama had been assassinated'

The stark declaration came as part of a meandering discussion at the closing of a town hall meeting on the campus of Dartmouth College, which also featured mentions of school shootings.




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Inside the Okura Tokyo where Barack Obama and John Lennon have stayed after its £800million revamp 

The original Okura Tokyo opened in 1962 and welcomed all manner of famous faces over the years, including Steve Jobs and Margaret Thatcher too.




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Barack Obama takes aim at Donald Trump's TV and social media habits at tech conference

Barack Obama said presidents benefited hearing from a diversity of opinion,' and counseled against watching TV and reading social media in an apparent dig at President Trump.




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Donald Trump says HE would have a Nobel Peace Prize 'if they gave it out fairly'

Donald Trump on Monday knocked Barack Obama for receiving the Noble Peace Prize and said he would have one of his own 'if they gave it out fairly.'




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'What is he smoking?' Susan Rice says Kurds' blood is going to be on Donald Trump's hands

'The Kurds were the pointy end of the spear who fought ISIS on our behalf,' Rice said. 'They bled and died ... and we just threw them under the bus in 24 hours.'




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Former New Jersey governor Christine Whitman tweets 'Hitler has nothing on Trump'

The comment, posted to Twitter by Christine Whitman on Monday, appeared to be deleted and replaced by a tweet which described the fake video as 'the stuff of dictators'.