Bristol Palin lashed out at Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz Tuesday for attacking her mother, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, over her rumored forthcoming endorsement of front-runner Donald Trump.
"Cruz’s flip-flop, turning against my mom who’s done nothing but support and help him when others sure didn’t, shows he’s a typical politician," Bristol Palin said
on her blog.
"How rude," he added, saying that he was "setting up a false narrative about her" through the criticism.
Amid
rumors that Palin would endorse Trump in Iowa Tuesday, Rick Tyler, Cruz's campaign spokesman, told CNN that the move would "be a blow to Sarah Palin, because Sarah Palin has been a champion for the conservative cause, and if she was going to endorse Donald Trump, sadly, she would be endorsing someone who’s held progressive views all their life on the sanctity of life, on marriage, on partial-birth abortion."
Bristol Palin noted that her mother, the 2008 vice presidential candidate, has consistently backed Cruz since endorsing him in his Senate run in 2012.
"You can like two people in a race, but there will only one president," she said. "The audacity to suggest that because she chooses one over the other will somehow 'damage' her just shows arrogance.
Noting that
Cruz said in a documentary last April that Palin "can pick winners," Bristol Palin said, "I hope you’re right, and that she endorses Donald Trump today for president."