“The View” panelist Paula Faris compared Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign to Jim Carrey comedy “Dumb & Dumber” on Tuesday.
“[Cruz has] run a campaign of integrity but it’s over,” Faris said. “He’s like the guy that keeps asking the girl out who won’t take no for an answer. Remember that scene? ‘Dumb & Dumber’ when he says ‘Like 1 in 100, and she says ‘1 in a million’ and he says ‘So there’s a chance?'”
The comment came during a discussion about the widely circulated video showing Carly Fiorina falling offstage at a Cruz rally, where the GOP candidate doesn’t make any effort to help her.
“I’m going to give him a pass on this because if you look at it in slow motion, which I know I’m crazy but I have, it looks — see, see, Ted’s not looking at her,” guest host Sunny Hostin said. “He’s looking elsewhere. His wife sees it and she looks horrified.” Fiorina, who is Cruz’s pick for vice president, reportedly didn’t suffer any injuries.
The co-hosts also posited that Cruz probably didn’t hear the thud from Fiorina falling off the stage. “If Chris Christie was his running mate, he would have heard the thud,” Joy Behar joked.
Ted Cruz v Donald Trump Timeline: Their Insults About Wives and Rat Sex (Photos)
This week began with nude pictures of Donald Trump's wife, Melania Trump, and ended with Ted Cruz calling Trump a rat and just barely avoiding the word "ratfucking." Let's review.
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It all started with an anti-Trump Facebook ad targeted at Mormons from the super PAC America Awesome, which featured a photo of Melania Trump posing naked for GQ.
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Taking offense to the perceived slight, Trump threatened to "spill the beans" on Cruz's wife Heidi. "Be careful, Lyin' Ted," he warned on Twitter.
"Pic of your wife not from us. Donald, if you try to attack Heidi, you're more of a coward than I thought. #classless," responded Cruz.
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On Wednesday, a story accusing Cruz of having affairs with five women appeared in The National Enquirer. Cruz denied the story, calling it "complete and utter lies" and "a smear that has come from Donald Trump and his henchmen."
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While accusing Trump of planting the story, Cruz tried to talk around the word "ratfucking," derogatory slang for an especially dirty kind of political sabotage.
“He’s a man for whom a term was coined for copulating with a rodent,” Cruz said of a former Trump ally. “Well let me be clear, Mr. Trump may be a rat but I have no desire to copulate with him. And this garbage does not belong in politics.”
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On Friday, Trump issued a statement on Facebook, denying the accusation that he planted the Enquirer story.
"While [The National Enquirer was] right about O.J. Simpson, John Edwards, and many others, I certainly hope they are not right about Lyin’ Ted Cruz," he wrote.
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This week in disgusting presidential politics
This week began with nude pictures of Donald Trump's wife, Melania Trump, and ended with Ted Cruz calling Trump a rat and just barely avoiding the word "ratfucking." Let's review.