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AFP
WASHINGTON
"BIG Night in Texas!"Donald Trump promised in his Monday morning tweet. Ted Cruz hopes it is as well.
The US leader is heading to the Lone Star State to give a shot in the arm to the Senate campaign of Cruz, one of his fiercest rivals for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.
Trump infamously insulted the looks of Cruz's wife Heidi, vaguely suggested Cruz's father had played a role in John F. Kennedy's assassination and tagged him with the nickname"Lyin'Ted."
The 47-year-old junior senator from Texas fired off insults of his own, calling Trump a"pathological liar"and"utterly amoral."
Now, the pair will share the stage at the Toyota Center in Houston later on Monday with two weeks to go before the congressional midterm elections, with Cruz in an unexpectedly tough re-election battle.
Trump needs Cruz to maintain Republican control of the US Senate, while Cruz is all too aware that a presidential seal of approval could help him in his face-off with rising Democrat star Beto O'Rourke.
Opinion polls still have the ultra-conservative Cruz in the driver's seat, but he is far from the cake-walk win he and the party initially predicted.
"Beto,"as supporters of the 46-year-old O'Rourke call him, is making life difficult for Cruz.
While positioning himself firmly on the left, O'Rourke has eschewed the anti-Trump rhetoric systematically rolled out by most of his party -- a move that has won over voters.
Some even say O'Rourke could be the party's saviour in the next presidential election in 2020.
Trump has called O'Rourke a"total lightweight"but the Democrat has opted not to get into trading insults with the president on Twitter.
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