Cruz supporter blasts Trump campaign’s ‘hyperbolic rhetoric’

by Rebecca Savransky - 04/17/16 11:22 AM ET

Ken Cuccinelli, delegate operations director for Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign, slammed GOP front-runner Donald Trump’s campaign on Sunday for using harsh rhetoric.

“They keep using this hyperbolic rhetoric that they can’t back up,” the former Virginia attorney general said on ABC’s “This Week.”

{mosads}Trump’s campaign has repeatedly accused the Texas senator of not playing by the rules, but Cuccinelli said Sunday that the Trump campaign can’t list a single example.

“We’re playing within the rules established a long time ago and motivating voters based on Ted’s vision. That’s why we’re winning now,” he said.

He said Trump got “stomped” in Wyoming and defended Cruz’s win in Colorado.

“The same was true in Colorado: 65,000 people participated in Colorado, and Ted Cruz swept that election, and he did it with his vision for economic growth, to make this country secure, finally, and also to expand freedom,” he said.

“Donald Trump can’t speak to any of those things.

“This is a banana-republic approach from the Trump team, because they’re getting beat on the ground.”

He said Trump’s campaign gets a lot of media attention, but Cruz has a strong grassroots campaign.

“They’re carrying this forward. We’re winning because thousands of Americans have risen up to Ted’s message, to get behind that and to win in these conventions and these caucuses and these primaries,” he said.

“And we’re dong it, and we’re going to keep doing it through June 7 and then onto Cleveland.”

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