Cruz aide: Trump campaign a ‘hot mess’

An aide to Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Wednesday called Donald Trump’s campaign a “hot mess,” likening the GOP front-runner’s operation to the businessman’s failed Trump Steaks.

“They’ve got people who are quitting and are being fired and are moving in and out. They’re going to be still working on how to get email on their phone while we’re continuing to open field offices in the states that are coming up to vote,” Cruz spokesman Ron Nehring said on CNN’s “New Day.”  

{mosads}”The Trump campaign seems to be operating with the same efficiency as Trump University and Trump Steaks and Trump Magazine and so forth,” the Cruz aide continued, mentioning some of Trump’s failed business ventures.

Joseph Borelli, the co-chair of Trump’s New York campaign, fired back during the CNN segment.

“We had some Trump champagne last night,” Borelli said, referring to Trump’s victory in Tuesday’s primary.

(While there is a product called Trump Champagne, Bloomberg reports it was created by a Phoenix man who invoked the businessman’s brand name. The Trump Winery in Virginia does sell sparkling wines but doesn’t call them champagne because they’re not from that region of France.)

Cruz campaign: Trump’s campaign operating like Trump steaks. Trump campaign: We had Trump champagne last night https://t.co/VO1Gy8HeOT

— New Day (@NewDay) April 20, 2016

Cruz’s spokesman has been calling Trump’s campaign a “hot mess” amid multiple reports of a staff shake-up within the businessman’s campaign. 

A GOP strategist has been promoted to lead Trump’s delegate efforts, while the campaign’s national field director left after another GOP operative was added as political director last week.

Cruz’s campaign, meanwhile, is battling the perception that the Texas senator can’t succeed in denying Trump the necessary 1,237 delegates in the coming weeks to force a contested convention after Trump sailed to victory in Tuesday’s New York primary. Cruz took third.