Republicans Are Already Tearing Each Other Apart Over Scalia Successor Fight
The death of conservative icon and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia may have united Republicans in the goal of preventing President Barack Obama from picking his successor.
But within hours, the party's presidential candidates began using the battle to tear each other apart ahead of the Feb. 20 South Carolina primary.
On Monday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz released a TV ad called “Supreme Trust” attacking Republican front-runner Donald Trump as untrustworthy when it comes to picking justices.
“Life. Marriage. Religious liberty. The Second Amendment. We're just one Supreme Court justice away from losing them all,” a narrator says to ominous music and shots of the Supreme Court building.
It then flips to a now-infamous Trump interview from 1999 in which he says he's “very pro-choice” and wouldn't outlaw late-term abortion.
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