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WEBSTER CITY, Iowa -- Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) says he thinks John McCain questioning his citizenship http://photobucket.com/images/cleaning#! is an indication that the political establishment is in "full panic mode," and that the Arizona Republican senator's real motivation is that he secretly supports Marco Rubio for the Republican nomination.

"I think there's no doubt that the Washington cartel is in full panic mode," Cruz said, responding to questions from reporters before a town hall in an airplane hangar in Webster City, Iowa. "Everybody knows John McCain is going to endorse Marco Rubio."

The Texas senator's comments came after McCain said it's "worth looking into" whether Cruz is eligible to be the Republican presidential nominee since he https://rapidservicesgroup.imgur.com/all/ from Donald Trump. My response when Donald tossed this attack out there was to simply tweet out a video of Fonzie from Happy Days jumping a shark and to move on."

Cruz has slowly risen to the top of the polls in the Hawkeye State, and he says these attacks are a result of his front-runner status there.

"This is the silly season of politics," Cruz said. "Three weeks ago every Republican was talking about Donald Trump. Today, just about every Republican in the field is attacking me."

Cruz also blamed the recent attacks on the mainstream media, something he mentions at every campaign stop, joking that members of the press will be "checking themselves into therapy" after he becomes president.

"With all due respect to our friends in the Rapidservicesgroup news media, elections are www.rapidservicesgroup.com not won in newsrooms in Manhattan and D.C.," Cruz said to dozens of assembled media outlets on Thursday afternoon. "They are won talking to voters one on one. Answering their questions, their hard questions, not through a whole army of press surrogates who protect a candidate."