Donald Trump said Friday that rival Ted Cruz did not have a good night at the Republican debate.
“He came at me last night, was very inappropriate. I don’t know that he’s a nice guy. I think he hurt himself last night. He’s very strident,” Trump said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“I thought Ted did not have a good night, last night.”
While Cruz has noted that he’s been rising in the polls, Trump countered on Friday that the Texas Senator isn’t doing well nationally, in South Carolina or in New Hampshire.
“He really lied. He said he has done well in the polls. He hasn’t done well in the polls,” the billionaire businessman said.
Minutes into Trump’s appearance on the show, which was taking place at an Iowa restaurant with a live audience, a handful of protestors briefly disrupted the interview.
“Donald Trump! Stop the hate,” they chanted before being removed from the coffee shop.
The MSNBC interview came at the same time as the Trump campaign announced the release of its second ad, which will air in Iowa and New Hampshire, dropping about $2 million to pay for it about evenly distributed between the two early primary states.
Unlike Trump’s first ad which critics panned for using footage of the Moroccan border when discussing the U.S. Border with Mexico, the new 30-second video shows just Trump speaking and comes from a recent rally Trump held in Lowell, Massachusetts.
“We are going to take our country and we’re going to fix it,” Trump says in the ad, as well as committing to fixing the country’s borders and strengthening the military.