Ted Cruz's national co-chair, Rep. Steve King of Iowa, said this morning on CNN that Donald Trump got the better of exchange last night on New York values.
"I didn't think he went too far," King said on CNN of Cruz's comments on New York values, "until I saw Donald Trump's reaction. And then I thought it would've been better on the part of Ted Cruz not to have had that exchange."
King continued to praise Trump, "I thought it was one of the times when you saw Donald Trump actually show you more of his heart than we've seen on the campaign trail -- he meant what he said, you could tell that he was re-living some of the pain of September 11, 2001. He really flipped that -- Ted Cruz didn't go there -- but Donald Trump elected to go into the September 11 ... and he turned that into an emotional component of the debate."