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Republican-on-Republican Violence: Chris Christie won't be Lectured by Ted Cruz

<p>Pro-theocracy GOP candidate Ted Cruz is off to a great start&comma; having already raised over &dollar;50 million since his campaign launch three months ago&period; This figure comes close only to the &dollar;60&plus; million raised by Hillary Clinton&rsquo&semi;s supporters and her PACs&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In just three short months&comma; individuals and outside spending groups have donated &dollar;51 million towards the Texas Senator&rsquo&semi;s campaign&period; Cruz seeks to up that amount by meeting with wealthy Republican donors like Sheldon Adelson&comma; the casino magnate&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While his pocketbook grows&comma; Cruz is taking some criticism from fellow candidate Chris Christie&comma; who said Monday on the Fox program &ldquo&semi;America&rsquo&semi;s Newsroom&rdquo&semi; that he &ldquo&semi;didn&rsquo&semi;t need to be lectured by Ted Cruz&rdquo&semi; about &ldquo&semi;Republican-on-Republican violence&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Christie&comma; although long-time friends with Donald Trump&comma; took issue with the billionaire&rsquo&semi;s recent comments about illegal immigrants and was surprised when Ted Cruz responded to the same comments by stating that he wasn&rsquo&semi;t going &ldquo&semi;to engage in the media&rsquo&semi;s game of throwing rocks and attacking other Republicans&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Christie takes exception that &ldquo&semi;the guy who put together a group that was sponsoring primary ads against Senator Lamar Alexander is giving us &ndash&semi; the rest of us &ndash&semi; lectures on Republican-on-Republican violence&period; I mean&comma; all due respect&comma; I don&rsquo&semi;t need to be lectured by Ted Cruz&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Christie doesn&rsquo&semi;t appreciate the inconsistency and hypocrisy evident in Cruz&rsquo&semi;s behavior&comma; adding that he really admires Senator Alexander&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As to his opinion on Trump&rsquo&semi;s controversial comments&comma; &ldquo&semi;I think that&rsquo&semi;s what he would expect&comma; he tries to evoke reaction&comma; that&rsquo&semi;s part of who Donald is&comma; I&rsquo&semi;ve known him for a long time&comma; and I consider him a good friend&comma; but on this one we disagree&period; I think those comments are inappropriate&comma; and I think when you&rsquo&semi;re running for president&comma; you have an obligation to answer some of that stuff&comma; and we do&period;&rdquo&semi; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Christie believes that Cruz&rsquo&semi;s talk on Republican-on-Republican violence is his way of trying to deface the competition&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Christie went on to talk about the nuclear deal&comma; saying that it was the Obama administration&rsquo&semi;s &ldquo&semi;single biggest disaster&&num;8221&semi; and claiming that Obama &ldquo&semi;cares &lbrack;more&rsqb; about his legacy than anything else at this point&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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