Ted Cruz made the mistake of attacking Trump in the last GOP debate. Trump’s 9/11 reply devastated Cruz’s performance in that debate. Now those chickens are coming home to roost, as he is now losing to Trump in the first primary state. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola (ThinkTank) host of The Young Turks discuss.

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“Reality TV star Donald Trump and shutdown maestro Ted Cruz have dominated the polls and media attention in the Republican primary, at the expense of the field’s mainstream candidates. Now, Republican elites are increasingly resigned to one of them winning the nomination.

The Washington Post quotes several Republican politicians saying they would prefer Trump over Cruz, as if it’s a binary choice, convincing themselves that Trump would have a better shot in the general election. Bloomberg News checked in with the Republican money men on Wall Street and found them rationalizing how it could still be business as usual with either Trump or Cruz. On Saturday, when Sen. Chuck Grassley—a member of Congress for 40 years—introduced Trump at an Iowa rally, the New York Times called it “a seal of approval by elements of the Republican establishment that once declined to take Mr. Trump seriously.”