Donald Trump labelled a ‘snivelling coward’ by Ted Cruz

The feud between Republican presidential contenders Donald Trump and Ted Cruz over their spouses heated up, with Cruz calling the party frontrunner “a snivelling coward” for threatening his wife on Twitter.

The senator from Texas also sharpened his attacks on Trump’s conservative credentials, linking the brash billionaire to disgraced New York politicians Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner. Cruz continued bashing Trump for making Cruz’s wife, Heidi, a target of social-media barbs.

“I have to say, seeing him go deeper and deeper into the gutter, it’s not easy to tick me off,” Cruz said at a news conference while campaigning in Dane, Wisconsin. “But you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, it’ll do it every time.