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“I’m here because I decided that too much was a stake to sit on the sidelines, that I couldn’t just sit there and talk about it and do commentary about it; that I wanted to use what influence I had with Christians around this country to say that I’ve talked to all these candidates, I have vetted the candidates and …

CNN reports: Donald Trump on Friday threatened to sue Ted Cruz for “not being a natural born citizen” if the Texas senator “doesn’t clean up his act” and stop running negative ads against him. Trump and Cruz are in a tight race in South Carolina heading into the state’s primary later this month. Cruz communication director Rick Tyler said Trump …

Politico snorts: Damn, it feels good to be a Clinton. Or so it would seem, according to Ted Cruz’s latest ad released Friday. The Cruz campaign released its first ad explicitly going after Hillary Clinton on Friday, set to the tune of Geto Boys’ “Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangsta.” “Damn it feels good to be a Clinton. …

Via email from Brian Brown: I’ve got some breaking news that could blow up the presidential contest: We have just launched a powerful new television commercial in South Carolina taking on Donald Trump for abandoning the fight for marriage even though 78% of South Carolina voters (and 50 million voters in other states) cast ballots deciding that marriage should be …

“I am a Christian and the Word says if you are ashamed of Jesus He will be ashamed of you. I don’t intend to have that conversation with my maker. It is an integral part of who I am my faith. Now, at the same time, I’m not running to be ‘Pastor-In-Chief.’ It is not the calling of a political …

Ted Cruz is continuing to pull Donald Trump to the right on same-sex marriage. In the early days of his campaign Trump had little to say about Obergefell, other than expressing faint opposition and saying it’s now the “law of the land.” Later he said that Kim Davis should do her job. But last month he vaguely promised to enable …

The Cruz campaign has pulled its latest ad after learning its self-described conservative Christian actress has also appeared in titles such as Kinky Sex Club and Insatiable Desires. Via Buzzfeed: The ad, which was set at a group therapy session of conservative voters who feel betrayed by Marco Rubio on immigration, featured actor Amy Lindsay, who played a woman telling …

CNN reports: Ted Cruz will launch his most forceful attack yet against Donald Trump in a TV ad that accuses Trump of buying political influence “in a pattern of sleaze stretching back decades.” The 60-second spot, shared first with CNN, is part of a six-figure ad buy that will hit voters’ TV screens across South Carolina starting as early as …

“We are at a cultural crossroads in our country, and if we can be in this race to show this country the face of the God that we serve — this Christian God that we serve is the foundation of our country, our country was built on Judeo-Christian values, we are a nation of freedom of religion, but the God …

Four times married Rush Limbaugh says that Ted Cruz is the only true conservative in the race. From the wingnut site Newsmax: With conservatives across the country facing a critical decision whether to back Donald Trump, top radio talker Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday that true conservatives have no choice but to vote for Ted Cruz. Limbaugh told his radio audience, …

From the Independent Journal: Real estate mogul Donald Trump has taken a beating on the issue of eminent domain, but never from children holding action figures. Ted Cruz, Trump’s chief rival in national polls for the GOP nomination, has a new ad out that features children playing with Trump and Hillary action figures while saying lines like: “He pretends to …

Most of New Hampshire’s polls closed at 7PM eastern and the rest close at 8PM. Heavy turnout is expected to favor Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, both of whom began the day with double-digit polling leads. Embedded below are live-streams which will begin reporting the results shortly. Watch along with us and weigh in below.

Ted Cruz is thrilled to have the endorsement of lunatic Pastor Mike Bickle. The National Jewish Democratic Council has a problem with this. They write: “It is profoundly troubling that Sen. Ted Cruz proudly trumpeted the endorsement of such a controversial figure who holds such offensive views. In announcing Bickle’s support, Sen. Cruz said, ‘we will fight the good fight, …

The Daily Dot reports: Nobody ever said campaigning for the presidency would be boring. Two men entered a Ted Cruz town hall equipped with mirrors and a wooden cross to, uh, perform an exorcism on the Texas senator on Monday. Seriously. “Ted Cruz look in the mirror and let the evil spirit leave!” one man shouted at the event in …

Trump campaign spokeswoman and convicted shoplifter Katrina “Bullet Necklace” Pierson appeared on CNN moments ago to defend Trump calling Ted Cruz a “pussy.” Pierson: “Donald Trump has single-handedly brought back the freedom of speech.” Seriously. For real. She just totally said that.

From the Washington Post: As Donald Trump brought up his chief rival, Ted Cruz, during a rally in a sports arena the night before the New Hampshire primary, a woman in the crowd shouted out an insult of the senator from Texas. “She just said a terrible thing,” Trump said with a smile. “You know what she said? Shout it …

Brian Brown today issued a jillion-word whine that the media is biased against God’s Own Candidate, Ted Cruz. An excerpt: What happened this morning on the NBC Today Show makes it crystal clear who the media wants to pick as the Republican nominee — Marco Rubio. This morning, NBC’s top political correspondent, Chuck Todd, criticized Sen. Rubio’s debate performance and …

Launching today is my new twice-monthly politics column for Britain’s Pride Life, a quarterly LGBT rights and lifestyle magazine. In today’s first column I rate four leading GOP presidential candidates based on their potential threat to LGBT civil equality. While my assessments may seem a bit rudimentary to regular readers of this here website thingy, I thought it might be …

From CNN: Sen. Ted Cruz knowingly misstated CNN’s reporting during Saturday’s Republican primary debate, despite the fact that CNN’s reporting was correct all along. Cruz blamed CNN for a message his campaign sent to supporters the night of the Iowa caucuses suggesting Carson was going to suspend his campaign. “My political team saw CNN’s report breaking news and they forwarded …

Death & Taxes recaps last night’s bungled opening to the GOP debate: Saturday night’s GOP debate got off to an inauspicious start when Ben Carson apparently did not hear the moderators call his name, signaling his turn to walk out on stage, the result of which was absolute chaos. The disastrous effects of Carson’s misstep were amplified by the fact …