Tuesday in Indiana is the defining moment." And the media is willfully enabling him to cheapen the value of our democratic process,” she said in a statement. "I don't think it's ever great when anybody calls you Lucifer," Gohmert said, "but I think it says a lot about Boehner and his preference for Trump." When the campaign moved to New York and Pennsylvania, Cruz's father, Rafael, a minister himself, spent a couple of weeks here in Indiana meeting with small groups of pastors, recruiting them to support his son. “I implore, I exhort every member of the body of Christ to vote according to the word of God, and vote for the candidate that stands on the word of God and on the Constitution of the United States of America," Cruz said, as earlier reported by The Washington Examiner. "And I am convinced that man is my son, Ted Cruz. The alternative could be the destruction of America.” 
 
 Asked to respond, Trump called it a disgrace.
– Donald Trump's latest is a wilder-than-usual attack on Ted Cruz: Trump says Cruz's father was in the company of Lee Harvey Oswald just months before Oswald shot John F. Kennedy in 1963. His comments are based on a National Enquirer story that claims a previously unidentified man photographed with Oswald handing out leaflets in support of Fidel Castro in New Orleans is actually Rafael Cruz. The report cites "experts" who reviewed photos of Rafael Cruz from the time period and found he "looks to be the same person" as Oswald's companion, per the Miami Herald. "What was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald?" Trump says, per Politico. "It's horrible." Though Rafael Cruz admits to once supporting Castro, he says he was "duped" and didn't know Castro was a Communist. A Cruz rep says it's "another garbage story in a tabloid full of garbage" (the Enquirer has endorsed Trump) and "that is not Rafael in the picture." Still, Trump's criticisms don't stop there. He also slams Cruz's father for urging evangelicals to vote for his son. "I exhort every member of the body of Christ to vote according to the word of God and vote for the candidate that stands on the word of God … and I am convinced that man is my son," Rafael Cruz says in a Facebook video, per the Washington Examiner. "It's disgraceful that his father can go out and do that," Trump tells Fox News. (The National Enquirer claims Cruz had five mistresses.)