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Did bother them and we're talking here about a contest that's going to be likely decided on the slimmest of margins. if you look back at 2012, especially 100 votes, less than 100 votes separated mitt romney from santorum and you're talking about roughly 125,000 people who show up at the polls so these kinds of little dings, not only the citizenship issue and eligibility issue as i think it's probably going to be a settled matter in the minds of most voters, youed a that to this attack. >> do you think senator cruz' attack about new york values will resonate with rural conservatives in iowa? >>...

Victory lap on the eve of the debate tomorrow in south carolina. >> is there a sense you get from the trump campaign that the gloves are off and will stay off because every time trump and cruz had a chance to go after each other on a debate stage, they shied away from that. >> reporter: anderson, the gloves are off and then back on again and i believe at the debate tomorrow night we will see a similar thing. donald trump has not shown in any of the debates he is interested in being the aggressor unless someone comes after him first. so i do not expect that he will talk about the citizen ship i...

Donald trump has not shown in any of the debates he is interested in being the aggressor unless someone comes after him first. so i do not expect that he will talk about the citizen ship issue unless he's asked about it. but i cannot fathom he would not be asked that and i'm actually watching ted cruz. is he going to try and engage donald trump? there is no question in iowa this is having some effect here. ted cruz dropped from some ten points to now only having a four-point lead over donald trump. i think the gloves will stay on unless donald trump is provoked and then as we've seen time and ...

But it's also good news in a way for trump because, look, he closed that gap. there was a ten-point gap a month ago. he's closed that gap down to three points. it's not clear, you know, what caused cruz to slide a bit. is it the birther attacks? is it the fact that he's the front-runner, and so he's under attack from all sides including folks like marco rubio? because take a look. this poll showed that when people were asked about cruz's citizenship issue and whether it's a concern, only 15% said that it was a concern. 83% said they weren't bothered by this. now, the poll was taken just over b...

One of the most prominent institutional scholars lawrence tribe said it could be. do you think ted cruz' citizenship could be a fair issue? >> i'm not interested in the citizenship issue. i wasn't interested when they said president obama didn't live in the u.s. or wasn't a citizen. there are too many important issues in the country of employment, inclusion and giving everybody a chance to rise and national security, protecting the homeland. i don't have time for whether ted cruz is an american or whatever. we have too many problems to be picking at that. that lowers the debate and lowers the ...