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As tensions between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump have been rising over the past few weeks, Cruz openly joked about running over his GOP rival during a Wednesday interview on "Jimmy Kimmel Live."

When asked if the billionaire was the person he disliked the most in America, Cruz replied, "If I were in my car getting ready to reverse and saw Donald in the backup camera, I'm not confident which pedal I'd push."

“The effort to rush this through under the current Obama administration is nothing short of national disgrace…”

The famed neurosurgeon argued that if Tubman were put on a bill, she’d become the face of “debt slavery” similar to the slavery she fought in life. “At the current level, the national debt is almost $20 trillion, a cost of over $60,000 dollars for every citizen in this country… At today’s average income of roughly $50,000, it would take that child more than three years of slave labor to repay the debt they are born with,” Carson argued.

Vince wrote:Ben Carson is the man having us all question the validity of the phrase, "well, it's not brain surgery."

Carson: I support Trump because I believe in science

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Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton spoke out against bipartisan efforts to reform America's criminal justice system at a conservative think tank in Washington on Thursday, saying, "If anything, we have an under-incarceration problem."

"Law enforcement is able to arrest or identify a likely perpetrator for only 19% of property crimes and 47% of violent crimes. If anything, we have an under-incarceration problem," Cotton said.

"The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime," Cotton said. "It's simply impossible."

Malcolm wrote:

"The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime," Cotton said. "It's simply impossible."

It's hard to argue with that brand of logic.

The Wisconsin Republican told NBC's "Meet the Press" that "the last thing I would do is tell anybody to do something that's contrary to their conscience. Of course I wouldn't do that."

Ryan, who has given a tepid endorsement to Trump, said he understands he is in a "very strange situation" to be supporting the party's presumptive nominee while not urging his fellow lawmakers to follow suit. But he said Trump is "a very unique nominee."

In a stunningly tone-deaf development, the Republican party has decided to use its party’s platform to weigh in on the transgender bathroom issue.

The Republican Party will reportedly shift its platform language to drop calls for a federal marriage amendment even though it still calls for state governments to recognize that marriage is between a man and a woman.

The Senate recently approved legislation to protect banks against repercussions if they do business with marijuana dispensaries, but a Republican-controlled committee blocked a similar amendment in the House.

One of the co-sponsors, Rep. Dennis Heck (D-Wash.), mentioned slain Colorado pot store guard Travis Mason after the GOP action. Heck told the National Journal that “every single member who opposed allowing this amendment ought to have that young man’s name tattooed on their body to remind them.”

Leisher wrote:...and they're sad when you realize how out of touch these women are...

GORDON wrote:

Leisher wrote:...and they're sad when you realize how out of touch these women are...

They certainly seem to Care Deeply about stuff they can't change.

Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, an outspoken critic of Mr. Trump who plans to skip the convention, said more bluntly that the party should be prepared to break with Mr. Trump and the voters who have cheered his pledges to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and ban Muslims from entering the country.

“You’ve got to hope that, if this race keeps going the way it looks to be going, that it’s enough of a jolt to wake people up and say we don’t want to be relegated to second place in every future presidential campaign,” Mr. Flake said.

He suggested a purge of racists from the party that would recall the expulsion of the John Birch Society, a fringe nationalist group, from Republican ranks a half-century ago.

“Those who want a Muslim ban, those who will disparage individuals or groups — yes, we ought to, we need to,” Mr. Flake said.