Ted Cruz currently leads Donald Trump in polls of Texas voters. | Getty Cruz: Trump tax returns may show mob connection

Ted Cruz speculated on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Donald Trump may be hesitant to release his tax returns because of “Donald's business dealings with the mob, with the mafia.”

“ABC, CNN, multiple news reports have reported about his some dealings with, for example, S&A Construction, which was owned by 'Fat Tony' Salerno, who is a mobster who is in jail,” Cruz said Sunday morning. “Maybe his taxes show those business dealings are a lot more extensive than has been reported.”


“The fact that Donald seems terrified to release his taxes suggests that there's a bombshell there," the Texas senator added. "It’s natural to wonder, ‘Well, what is it that he's hiding in his taxes?’”

Cruz also dove into post-Super Tuesday strategy, saying that he believes only two candidates will come out of it with a “viable path that have enough delegates to have a shot at winning,” he said on NBC. “And head-to-head with Donald Trump, I beat Donald by 16 points, 56 to 40.”

Cruz is currently leading Trump in polls in Texas and Arkansas, but on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Cruz said that there “is no doubt that if Donald steam rolls through Super Tuesday, wins everywhere with big margins, that he may well be unstoppable.”

“I don’t think that will happen,” he added. “But I think if you're at home and you don't want Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee, then the only candidate who can beat Donald is our campaign.”