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Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who backs Ted Cruz for the Republican nomination, is slamming Chris Christie for his surprise endorsement of Donald Trump and praising Cruz and Marco Rubio for exposing Trump’s weaknesses in Thursday’s debate.
He also argues that Cruz is more capable of Trump of prosecuting the “dishonest” Democratic Party front-runner, Hillary Clinton.
During the GOP debate Thursday evening, Trump was asked about releasing his tax returns and said he would once he is done being audited. Cuccinelli said Trump’s reluctance shows he’s the worst possible candidate to face Hillary Clinton, whom Republicans constantly pressure to release speech transcripts and emails kept on her private server.
“Openness is going to be absolutely critical,” Cuccinelli said. “Our nominee needs to be 100 percent totally open to prosecute the case of dishonesty and deception by Hillary Clinton. Ted Cruz made the case last night that he can do that and Donald Trump cannot.”
Meanwhile, the news of Christie’s Trump endorsement dominated political coverage Friday afternoon, shifting the attention of analysts and partisans from the dissecting the debate to interpreting what Christie’s move means for the GOP race.
Just weeks ago, Christie was slamming Trump for his call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration and not having the temperament to be president. Trump responded in kind, by saying Christie acted like a “little boy” when he enthusiastically embraced President Obama after Hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey just days before the 2012 elections.
So why are the two aligning forces now?
“I guess blustery liberal Republicans flock together. In that sense, I can’t say that I’m altogether surprised,” said Cuccinelli, although he noted that Christie’s decision flies in the face of the argument he made for months on the campaign trail.
“I’m a little surprised that the guy who said, ‘Governors, governors, governors must be president. Governors, governors, only governors,’ endorses someone never elected to anything or responsible for anything in government ever, while there’s a governor still in the race,” Cuccinelli said.
As much as the Christie endorsement puzzled Cuccinelli, the media’s treatment of the story nauseated him.
“The media is really failing the American people. I sat at CNN with Wolf Blitzer for an hour today, with someone for Rubio and someone for Trump,” Cuccinelli said. “We all sat there while they just played the Christie-Trump press conference.”
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The same was true when Trump and Christie moved to a rally, and it wasn’t just CNN.
“All the networks, droolingly and slobberingly covered this event live, all of them,” said Cuccinelli, specifically mentioned the Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network.
He said no other GOP candidate gets that kind of exposure, including Rubio, whom Cuccinelli believes to be favored by the mainstream press.
But Cuccinelli was a big fan of Thursday’s debate on CNN, as Cruz and Rubio took every opportunity to level attacks on Trump on issue ranging from the hiring of illegal aliens to specifics on Obamacare to Trump’s ongoing praise for Planned Parenthood and his history of donating to Democrats.
“Trump had no substantive answer to any of this,” Cuccinelli said. “Think about this the next time you’re watching the guy. Listen for anything specific.”
Cuccinelli said besides Trump’s vow to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, he rarely offers specifics but does promise to provide health care for anyone who cannot afford insurance, which would cost taxpayers an additional $300 billion per year.
While backing Cruz, Cuccinelli says he enjoyed watching how much Rubio enjoyed taking it to Trump. But in the wake of the debate, he said both candidates are acting juvenile.
“Their back and forth has been so childish. ‘Oh, look how he sweats at the debate. He’s so nervous behind the curtain’ and ‘Look at this, he can’t even spell right in his tweets,” said Cuccinelli, who argued that Cruz relentlessly went after Trump, but always on substance.
He said Rubio and Trump are “doing nothing to advance the cause of liberty” with their current attacks.
But only one other candidate will likely have the chance to emerge from the rest of the pack to face Trump for the nomination. Cuccinelli said he thinks Cruz in the best position.
“One of them has to break away in the delegate count,” he said. “I think you’re going to see that happen for Ted on Tuesday. Ted is better positioned in more states than Rubio.”
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