Donald Trump says his supporters are sick of being 'pushed around' by 'stupid people'

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last updated 26 January 2016

Donald Trump believes that, while the "establishment is against me," leading Republicans are starting to support him because he's "opposed to [Ted] Cruz, who is a nasty guy who can't get along with anybody."

Trump told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that when Cruz spent 21 hours in the fall of 2013 attempting to defund the Affordable Care Act, he showed that he doesn't have the support of others. "We can't have a guy who stands in the middle of the Senate floor and every other senator think he's a whack job," he said. "You have to make deals. You have to get along. That's the purpose of what our founders created." He then blasted another Republican rival, Jeb Bush, saying he's "disgraced himself" by spending "over a hundred million dollars, and he's nowhere."

Trump also told Blitzer comments he made on Saturday ("I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose supporters") were taken out of context. "Of course I'm joking," he said. "And the purpose of that is to say the people love me. You know, they want to stay with me. They're loyal. They're tried of seeing our country being pushed around and led by people that are stupid people. They're tired of that."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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