Ted Cruz seems to have decided he doesn't care if Donald Trump accuses him of dirty campaigning. Cruz has momentum, so why not go for it:
"I can't tell you how many media outlets I hear, you know, have this great exposé on Donald, on different aspects of his business dealings or his past, but they said, 'You know what? We're going to hold it to June or July. We're not going to run it now,'" Cruz said on "Face the Nation."
"You're saying reporters have told you that?" host John Dickerson asked.
"Absolutely," the senator responded.
That’s a two-fer, no less: an attack on Trump and the media simultaneously. It’s also most likely got more than a grain of truth to it. The media probably is sitting on—or trying to fully nail down—a lot of juicy stories about Trump. But right now the Republican primary is juicy enough in itself, so it just wouldn’t be good business to use all that stuff now. And before you go hard after someone as litigious as Trump, you definitely want to be 100 percent sure you have the story right.
But are those “great exposés” any more likely to damage Trump’s support than any of the attacks on him other Republicans have tried in debates and ads? We don’t know, and that’s part of their value for Cruz: A rumor that encourages voters to imagine the absolute worst can be as good as a solid story that can be framed as a dirty attack by the liberal media. Cruz knows that, and he’s not above using it.
Boy, the top two in this primary really deserve each other.