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Republican candidate Donald Trump called the Twitter attack on rival Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi Cruz, 'a mistake
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Trump says Twitter attack on
Heidi Cruz was 'a mistake' and claims if he had a do-over the Tweet
would not have been posted
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Republican candidate Donald Trump called the Twitter attack 'a mistake'
He said that if he had the chance, he 'wouldn't have sent' the retweet of an unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz next to a glam shot of his wife, Melania
The Twitter post was captioned 'A picture with worth a thousand words'
But GOP frontrunner stood firmly by his believe that he didn't view the Heidi Cruz photo 'necessarily as negative'
Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump said that 'it was a mistake' to
attack rival Ted Cruz's wife Heidi Cruz on Twitter.
'Yeah, it was a mistake,' Trump told the New York Times' Maureen Dowd. 'If I had to do it again, I wouldn't have sent it.'
Last
month Trump retweeted an unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz next to a
glamor shot of his own supermodel wife, Melania Trump. The social media
post was captioned 'A picture with worth a thousand words'.
Last month Trump retweeted an
unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz next to a glamor shot of his own
supermodel wife, Melania Trump. The social media post was captioned 'A
picture with worth a thousand words'
Trump was confronted about the tweet after his support from female voters declined following the incident.
Dowd said in a New York Times
article that the GOP frontrunner stood firmly by his believe that he
didn't view the Heidi Cruz photo 'necessarily as negative'.
Trump
also told Dowd that Cruz 'did it first' and 'that wasn't nice',
insisting that his rival started the attack and claimed he wrote the
words on an anti-Trump group's ad aimed at Utah Mormons showing Melania
Trump in a 2000 British GQ shot posing provocatively suggesting she
wasn't First Lady material.
Cruz has denied all involvement in the anti-Trump ad.
Trump's Cruz attack is just one of several moments thus far in his campaign that have cost him female supporters.
A Gallup
poll released on Friday shows that 70 per cent of American women have
an unfavorable view of the billionaire Republican front-runner.
That number has never dipped below 58 per cent since Gallup added Trump to its daily tracking poll last July.
But it's trended in the wrong direction for Trump even since, reaching a new high on Friday.
Just 23 per cent of women nationwide say they have a favorable view of him.
On
Wednesday, he told MSNBC women should be punished for getting abortions
if they're ever banned - a position the notoriously unapologetic
campaign quickly reversed.
Trump said that Cruz 'did it first'
and 'that wasn't nice', referring to an anti-Trump group's ad aimed at
Utah Mormons. Cruz has denied all involvement in the anti-Trump ad
He
clarified his comments during a taping of Face The Nation on Friday,
saying he believed that, when it comes to abortion: 'The laws are set.
And I think we have to leave it that way.'
His
spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, quickly issued a clarification that Trump
meant that laws won't change until he's president and appoints judges
who can interpret them differently.
Trump
told a Wisconsin audience on Saturday that his words had been
repeatedly taken out of context, and complained that he was being held
to a different standards than his rivals.
'It's
a tough question,' he said of abortion. 'You know, 50 percent of the
people hate you. Fifty percent of the people love you, very simple.'
Dowd asked Trump about his initial response to the abortion question on MSNBC, to which Trump said it 'was not real life'.
'This
was a hypothetical, so I thought in terms of a hypothetical. So that's
where that answer came from, hypothetically,' he said.
When
Dowd further tried to press further, asking if Trump had ever been
involved with anyone who had an abortion while he was 'a swinging
bachelor in Manhattan'.
'Such an interesting question. ... So what's your next question?' Trump responded.
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