Donald Trump's escalating slaps at his closest rival Sen. Ted Cruz are way over-the-top and will have little effect on the Texas senator's popularity,
Newsmax TV political analyst Dick Morris says.
"He's just ridiculous … because the reason people are voting for Ted Cruz is that the other Republicans in the Senate don't like him," Morris said Tuesday on "Newsmax Prime" with J.D Hayworth.
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In his latest slam, the billionaire developer ripped Cruz as a "liar" and a "nasty" person who nobody likes — and said he is a "lone wolf" like President Barack Obama, only "more strident."
"Ted Cruz lies," the front-runner for the party's nomination told
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program. "He is a liar. That's why nobody likes him. That's why the Senate people won't endorse him. He stands in the middle of the Senate floor and can't make a deal with anybody. He's a jerk."
But Morris countered: "Most Republican voters hate the Republican senators, particularly [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, who have sold them out completely — and Cruz is mirroring that opinion."
Morris, a former advisor to President Bill Clinton, also dismissed the possibility of a brokered Republican National Convention, which occurs when no single candidate has a pre-existing majority of delegates before the first official vote for the party's presidential candidate.
"There is no chance of a brokered convention. None, zero, zip because starting on March 1 when the delegates are elected proportionately, most of the states have threshold requirements. They have to make more than 20 percent of the vote in most states to win any delegates at all," Morris said.
"So starting on March 1 when all those delegates are selected, guys like [former Florida Gov. Jeb] Bush, [Sen.] Rubio [of Florida] and [New Jersey Gov. Chris] Christie and so on who are getting 7, 8, 10, 12 percent of the vote will get no delegates at all and Trump and Cruz will divide the delegates in a two-way fight.
"Starting March 1, this becomes a two-way fight no matter who stays in or who stays out because the delegates' selection rules."
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