Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd in an op-ed published Saturday that retweeting the picture of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)’s wife, Heidi, was a “mistake.”
In a piece that called for Trump to act more presidential, Dowd wrote that she told Trump that he lost her sister’s vote after he retweeted a meme that had an unflattering picture of Heidi next to a more flattering picture of his wife, Melania.
“Yeah, it was a mistake,” he reportedly told her. “If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t have sent it.”
Dowd wrote that she stopped Trump when he started to argue that the retweet wasn’t “necessarily as negative.”
Read Dowd’s full piece.
