LAS VEGAS (AP) – The Republican presidential candidates are focused on Nevada and its caucuses today.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is continuing to lash out at rival Ted Cruz.
Trump tells a crowd of thousands in Las Vegas, “This guy is sick. There’s something wrong with this guy.”
Trump took specific issue with an ad Cruz’s campaign has been airing that accuses Trump of being against turning over federal land in Nevada to state control.
But Trump says it’s “not a subject I know anything about.”
“Something to do with I want to take away your land? And I want to keep it in the federal government? I don’t even know what the hell they’re talking about,” Trump said.
Marco Rubio says a Ted Cruz aide who was asked to resign on Monday is “a fall guy” who was simply executing a culture of dishonesty created by his rival.
Rubio has told reporters aboard his campaign plane on Monday night that he “felt bad” for Rick Tyler. Tyler was asked to resign earlier in the day after spreading a false news story that Rubio had criticized the Bible.
Rubio says Tyler was “executing a culture that exists in that campaign. The bigger issue is the culture that’s been created.”
