Meanwhile, on the Republican side, Texas Senator Ted Cruz has accused Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and his “henchmen” of fabricating a story in the National Enquirer tabloid that claimed Cruz had a series of extramarital affairs. Cruz singled out Trump’s friend and former adviser Roger Stone, the only person quoted by name in the National Enquirer story.

Sen. Ted Cruz: “And I would note that Mr. Stone is a man who has 50 years of dirty tricks behind him. He’s a man for whom a term was coined for copulating with a rodent. Well, let me be clear: Donald Trump may be a rat, but I have no desire to copulate with him. And this garbage does not belong in politics.”

The accusations came after Trump and Cruz hurled barbs over each other’s wives. The spat began when an anti-Trump super PAC ran an ad featuring a photo of Melania Trump during a nude photo shoot with the text “Meet Melania Trump. Your next first lady. Or, you could support Ted Cruz.” Trump fired back on Twitter threatening to “spill the beans” on Cruz’s wife and retweeting a photo of Melania next to an unflattering picture of Heidi Cruz. Cruz called Trump a “sniveling coward.”