President Trump on Monday night voiced his support for Sen. Ted Cruz
in his re-election, calling the Texas Republican "a really good friend
of mine."
Speaking at a "Make America Great Again" rally at the
Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, the president said while the pair's
relationship has previously been rocky — "in the beginning it was a love
fest" — he encouraged rallygoers to vote for the senator.
MASSIVE HOUSTON TAILGATE AWAITS TRUMP RALLYING FOR CRUZ
"Nobody
has helped me more with your tax cuts, with your regulation, with all
of the things that we're doing ... than Senator Ted Cruz," Trump said.
Monday's
rally was one of a series the president has participated in recently as
he aims to keep GOP control of the Senate and the House. Cruz is
running against Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke.
Before introducing
Trump — who frequently referred to the senator as "Lyin' Ted" during the
2016 campaign — Cruz made it clear the two no longer have bad blood and
predicted that "in 2020 Donald Trump will be overwhelming re-elected."
Trump,
meanwhile, called O'Rourke a "stone cold phony" who "pretends to be a
moderate, but he's actually a radical open-borders left-winger."
"The Democrats," Trump said, "have launched an assault on the sovereignty of our country."
Trump
told the crowd, which Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said consisted
of 18,000 to 19,000 people, with another 3,000 watching outside, that
his administration is "putting America first, it hasn't happened in a
lot of decades."
The president labeled himself a “nationalist” because he cares about the U.S. and less about the world overall.
“A
globalist is a person that wants the globe to do well, frankly, not
caring about our country so much,” Trump said. “We can’t have that. You
know, they have a word — it sort of became old-fashioned — it’s called a
nationalist.
“We’re not supposed to use that world. You know what
I am? I’m a nationalist, OK? I’m a nationalist," he said to chants of
"USA!"
Trump often railed against the Democrats during the rally, which lasted around two hours.
A so-called “blue wave” of potential Democrat victories, he said, “is being dissipated a little bit.”
Trump
reiterated what he's tweeted in recent days — that he believes the
Democrats "had something to do with" the migrant caravan recently
traveling to the U.S. from Mexico. Without evidence, he said Democrats
were "encouraging millions of illegal aliens to break out laws, violate
our borders and overwhelm our nation."
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