Cruz: I’m Now The ‘Only Person In This Field Who Can Beat’ Trump

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks to supporters on primary election night, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016, in Hollis, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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Still riding the wave of his first place finish in Iowa, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) asserted Wednesday that he’s now “the only person in this field who can beat Donald Trump.”

“What Iowa and New Hampshire demonstrate is that the only person in this field who can beat Donald Trump is me. The other candidates are not able to beat Donald Trump,” Cruz said during an appearance on “The Mike Gallagher Show,” according to audio flagged by BuzzFeed.

Cruz beat the real estate magnate in Iowa, but took third in the New Hampshire primary behind Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R). The freshman senator said the Democratic presidential candidates have no chance of beating Trump, either.

Cruz added that he was “the only candidate who has proven he is able to beat Donald Trump at the polls.”

“If you campaign against Donald saying, ‘Hey, I’m more liberal than you, I’m more into amnesty than you, I’ll be softer on radical Islamic terrorists than you,’ it doesn’t work, as we’ve seen twice in Iowa and New Hampshire,” he said.

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