It’s a three-man race in the Republican presidential contest Tuesday in Nevada, but Donald Trump is all but ignoring rival Marco Rubio, concentrating his rhetorical fire on Ted Cruz.  “Ted Cruz does not have the right ‘temperment’ to be President,” Trump wrote on Twitter in a series of anti-Cruz tweets Tuesday morning. “Look at the way he totally panicked in firing his director of comm. BAD!”  The attack was partly tongue-in-cheek, coming from the combative GOP front-runner whose temperament is often questioned.  But it was also a kick-a-man-when-he’s-down moment that fit the pattern of Trump’s relentless attacks on Jeb Bush in the weeks before the former Florida governor dropped out of the race on Saturday.  Cruz asked his communications director Rick Tyler to resign Monday after Tyler claimed Rubio could be heard disparaging the Bible in a video he posted on social media. The allegation was false and Tyler apologized.  But the dust-up on the eve of the Nevada vote lent credibility to weeks of accusations by both Trump and Rubio that Cruz has run a fundamentally dishonest campaign, undercutting the Texas senator’s case that he’s the purest religious conservative in the race.  The incident’s timing was bad for Cruz, who was hoping that a strong finish in Nevada would help him recover from his third-place finish in the South Carolina primary. In Nevada, where illegal immigration has long angered many Republicans, Trump has tried to use the issue against Cruz.  “Ted Cruz only talks tough on immigration now because he did so badly in S.C.,” Trump said Tuesday morning on Twitter. “He is in favor of amnesty and weak on illegal immigration.”  On Monday night, Cruz tried to reassure conservatives he would be tougher than Rubio or Trump on illegal immigration. Cruz told Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly that he would use the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to round up and deport 12 million of them.  “So Tommy O’Malley from County Cork in Ireland is over here,” O’Reilly asked, “and he overstays his visa, and he’s got a couple of kids, and he’s settled into Long Island, and you, President Cruz, are going to send the feds to his house, take him out and put him on a plane back to Ireland?”  “You better believe it,” Cruz responded.  The Nevada caucuses will offer a new gauge of how Cruz – who once enjoyed a well-chronicled “bromance” with Trump – is weathering Trump’s verbal assault.  For Rubio, whose wherewithal to survive a pummeling was thrown into doubt when Chris Christie rattled him in a New Hampshire debate, a big question looms: When will Trump decide it’s his turn.
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