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Decoding Ted Cruz's Five Lines of Attack on Donald Trump

The Texas senator launched a volley of criticism at the Republican front-runner on Thursday.

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On a week-long bus tour through New Hampshire, Ted Cruz made his move to push Donald Trump out of the conservative “lane”—and shove Marco Rubio off the road entirely—in anticipation of a one-on-one showdown with the New York businessman for the Republican presidential nomination.

At a news conference at Saint Anselm College on the final day of his trip Thursday, the Texas firebrand unleashed a torrent of attacks on Trump, hoping to do what all of his GOP rivals have failed to do for six months: take him down a peg.