Thanks for your thoughtful response. Of course, I will vote Trump if he is the nominee.
This will be a contested election. If Trump does not win on the first ballot, it will be Cruz.
Sadly, current polls show Trump getting slammed by both Bernie and Hillary. The reality is with a negative rating of near 70% among women who make up-to 53% of the electorate, it all points to Trump going down in flames. Even among the states Trump has won, he has a ceiling of 30%-40% and that with a fractured primary. A poll from Utah shows Trump losing to Hillary, and this in the reddest of red states.
Yes, we agree. Country comes first.
I don’t think Utah can be used as any sort of benchmark this time around.
Mormons are very important there. Mitt Romney was the GOP nominee last time, and he was 100% on board for Cruz.
That is just an impossible combination for any opponent. But that is just Utah. Not anywhere else.
Thank you for your thoughtful response. And I will vote for Cruz in he is the nominee as well. I hope for everyone’s sake that you are right about the second ballot if this goes to the convention. I fear that this is very unlikely. I know that Cruz has a good ground game, but I am assuming that you are aware of what took place in Tennessee recently. They wouldn’t even allow Cruz or Trump supporters in the party meeting let alone send them to the convention.
I have been active in local politics where we live over the years and it would be similar here except that they would try to be sneakier about it. It is a cliquey system and outsiders are not welcome when it comes to actual decision making within the party. I know that the people in charge are not enamored with either Trump or Cruz and they are not welcome to the idea of anyone taking away the influence that they currently have. I am only guessing but I assume it is the same in most other parts of the country.