MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough wondered if Donald Trump and Sen. [crscore]Ted Cruz[/crscore] made an “inside deal” not to attack each other during Tuesday night’s CNN GOP debate.
“I’ll tell you what. After the debate, I just started thinking, this was an inside deal,” Scarborough said Wednesday. “You’ve got Trump and Cruz that were kind of hitting each other, but they see now that they’re locked in first and second place. Everybody else is a distant third.” (RELATED: Trump: Cruz Has A ‘Wonderful Temperament’)
“Notice everybody on the stage was attacking everybody but the top two guys,” he continued. “So Trump goes after Jeb. Cruz goes after Rubio, the establishment’s two favorite candidates, and they refuse — look at this — they refuse to touch each other. It smacked of an inside deal.”
“If this maintains the status quo, neither Jeb nor Rubio catches them. It’s a smart political move,” Scarborough insisted. “And they made it. I mean, they made a direct or an indirect deal. ‘I’m going after Jeb, and everybody else. You go after Rubio and everybody else. We don’t touch each other, and we draw no blood.’ And it worked.” (RELATED:’Chaos Candidate’ — Jeb And Trump Trade Insults At GOP Debate [VIDEO])