Trump’s VP Choice and Eligibility

Canada Free Press ^ | 11/18/15 | Nelson Hultberg

[Liz]

MOMENTS TO REMEMBER---Cruz kisses up to Obama

Cruz's fast-tracking TPP vote......knowing Obama considers TPP central to his presidential legacy and to his foreign policy and economic legacies.

Cruz's vote on the Corker bill. The Corker bill is the left rallying to protect Obama on the Iran nuclear deal.

Cruz calling for a 500% increase in H1b work visas.

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American workers DESPISE H1B Visas. A massive expansion of H1Bs puts struggling Americans out of work.

No 'conservative' in their right mind would ever vote for deals which put Americans out of work. Cruz will not change his position on H1B visas....b/c pro-amnesty Goldman Sachs contributes to his campaign (Cruz's wife is a Goldman Sachs exec).

Club For Growth likes Cruz - they are also for amnesty open borders. ===========================================

Cruz also has highly suspect ties to Goldmand Sachs and the Council on Foreign Relations via his wife...a Goldman Sachs exec....

Mrs Cruz served on the North American Union task force, and supported their report called---'Building a North American Community."

The North/South border effort was sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in association with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales.

Translated into English, that means forget US sovereignty....just eradicate US borders. To be fair, Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship....recently.

[Dr. Sivana]

Awhile back Cruz pissed off the Trump team...they had to tell Cruz to back-off

I must have missed THAT memo.

[Liz]

Too bad.

[plain talk]

California, Illinois and California and many others are permanent locks for the dems. Hillary being a past Senator from New York will easily carry New York.

[carjic]

Speak for yourself. Cruz is the only one I will vote for. Trump is no conservative. He is a populist and will say anything to get the nomination. He would make a great press secretary to President Cruz. But nothing else. Maybe give him the contract on the “Beautiful Wall” he wants to build...

[deport]

Not going to happen. Nobody likes Cruz.

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Cruz has his detractors but at the same time he has his supporters. So I disagree with
your ‘nobody likes Cruz’.

Now your ‘Not going to happen’ statement. I agree with it in that I don’t think Trump
will pick anyone of the candidates. Trump flies in a different stratosphere and
because of that I don’t see him following traditional thinking. I can’t put a name
to who he’d pick but I don’t think it will be one of the losing candidates. JMO

[Dr. Sivana]

Hillary being a past Senator from New York will easily carry New York.

Nope. I am from the region (CT). Donald's 30 years of front page news in the NY media easily Trump's HRC's unimpressive eight years in the Senate. Trump is more NY than anyone else running.

[okie01]

He would be a bad VP pick-—b/c he[Cruz] is too self-absorbed

Hah! Cruz is too self-absorbed???!!!

This from a Trump supporter?

Glass houses come to mind...

[C. Edmund Wright]

The VP coattails in his/her home state is old news....not proven by history, totally irrelevant - and even if it was still relevant, Trump would ignore it just like he’s ignored EVERYTHING conventional. It’s his most endearing trait.

[lakecumberlandvet]

After allowing 0bama, Cruz is, de facto, eligible.

[Verginius Rufus]

In earlier times (before nominees were selected by the primaries), parties would "balance" the ticket. The Democrats, for example, after the Civil War never would pick a Southerner for President (except Wilson who had lived in the North for decades) but they often picked a Southerner for the VP slot.

In the decades after the Civil War many of the Presidential or Vice Presidential nominees were from a few states with many electoral votes such as Ohio and Indiana, but they were also states that were evenly divided so having a "favorite son" on the ticket might swing the state into that party's column.

If Trump is the nominee, he is unlikely to win New York. Texas is likely to go Republican regardless of whether there is a Texan on the ticket.

For strategic reasons, someone like Kasich or Walker would be attractive if they could bring their state into the Republican column, but this is a different era from when tickets were chosen in smoke-filled rooms at conventions. Someone who might help in one state might be a drag elsewhere.

Ideally the Presidential nominee would be so far ahead that the VP selection could be made simply on merit--who would be the best person to take over if the President died in office--but that may be true only in Cloudcuckooland.

[jstaff]

I am also an old retired Army guy. Cruz does not piss me off, he makes me happy. You, on the other hand...

[AlaskaErik]

You remind me of a bitter Army retiree from Wasilla who writes a column in the local paper. Everything he writes comes from Democrat talking points.

[CatherineofAragon]

"Cruz has an ability to piss off just about everybody."

Yes, if "everybody" means progressives...both of the Democrat and Republican variety.

Very telling, isn't it?

[rrrod]

Point well taken...but Cruz’s PR problem is IMAGE not philosophy. I dont think he will be Trumps pick but who knows?

[rrrod]

good call...but its early yet.

[fireman15]

Cruz is by far the brightest of the group of candidates but unfortunately I think that he is perceived as nerdy by many largely because of his voice. My brother-in-law had so much difficulty with his sinuses that he had to have surgery. (ear aches, headaches, couldn’t breath through his nose, snoring, sleep apnea, etc.) Before the surgery the tonal quality of his voice sounded just like Cruz... now his voice sounds more like Reagan.

I agree also that Rubio is the more likely VP pick for Trump because he will help carry Florida, (the hanging chad state), he is good looking, he sounds sincere and not nerdy, and he would probably not feel stifled in the job. He is classic VP material actually. The country really needs Cruz in the Senate while Rubio... no one would miss him that much and Rubio has signaled on a number of occasions that he doesn’t enjoy being a senator that much either.

I believe that everything is going to work out in the next election. Our side has got the momentum. Let’s just pray that we can keep it going. Pray also that the damage being done by Obama this next year can be limited.

[Arthur McGowan]

The fact that Trump gets 25% of blacks is absolutely staggering.

Perhaps it’s because he’s not just some white politician they never heard of. Like Reagan, he’s been a familiar face to the public, black and white, for several decades. And in Trump’s case, on a TV series up to the moment he announced. With black contestants on his show, so they’ve seen him talking to black people.

[Godebert]

Texas is reliable republican as far as electoral votes go. Trump wouldn’t need Cruz anyway.

[Dr. Sivana]

With black contestants on his show, so they’ve seen him talking to black people.

I think that's part of it. I also think a big part is his manner of demeanor. He doesn't take "no crap". He doesn't hide behind big words. He's rich, and LIKES being rich. He uses his money the way a lot of black people who don't have a lot imagine using money. Not like Bill Gates or Warren Buffett, but like the biggest guy on the block with his own airline, his own huge casinos, his own vodka (even though he doesn't drink), etc. In short, they can identify with him in some sense.