A rolling brawl between the two U.S. Republican presidential front-runners didn't abate on Sunday as Donald Trump termed his closest competitor, Ted Cruz, "nasty" and the Texas senator stood his ground in criticizing the billionaire's "New York values."
"He's a nasty guy," Trump said on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." "Nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him. Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him.
"He's a very — he's got an edge that's not good. You can't make deals with people like that and it's not a good thing. It's not a good thing for the country," said Trump, who has led Republican opinion polls for months.