And Trump faced 16 other candidates.
Did I see that Cruz came in third in four of the five states and that Cruz and Kasich combined vote totals were not enough votes in any state to surpass Trump totals?
Ha Ha! Where is Mitt? Kidnapped by aliens I presume?
Did they (Trump and Romney) have some business dealings gone wrong or something? Romney seems to hate him and it almost seems like jealousy.
Was watching the gang on Fox News, after Trump’s wins tonight, all saying “But he can’t win! How is he going to win?!?” And listing all the things he needs to do. Hilarious! Evidently what he’s doing is working quite well. He continues to be completely unorthodox and comes out on top. They can’t process it. Craziest election ever - in my lifetime anyhow.
Early in his campaign, Cruz’s team put out a powerpoint called “Cruz - Can He Win?” that lait oud the Cruz strategy for their donors. It was based on the fact that many conservatives, evangelicals, and Hispanics stayed home and didn’t vote for Romney. So all Cruz had to do is to assembly a coalition of those voters and convince them to vote for him, and he’d win. His strategy was to be a better Romney than Romney was. The competitors they were worried about were Rand Paul, Jeb!, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, and Scott Walker. In a chart he ranks Trump 2nd from the bottom beneath Kaisch and above Linda Graham.
The document is out there and it shows how shallow and off-base the core of Cruz’s strategy has been.
He totally underestimated Trump from the get-go...and now we see the folly of that view. Trump has been the consolidator, beating Cruz handily in the very demographic segments he targeted. Thus he is reduced to lying and stealing delegates. Many people who know the inside story have written that Cruz never really cared about the Senate, it was a means to get him into DC where he could elevate his profile with stunts like the fabled fillibuster. It is also said that his religious committment is more of a means to accomplish his political ends, a view his charitable giving record tends to support.
And Cruz still thinks he can steal the nomination!
Romney never faced the kind of unmitigated media hatred that Trump has received either. Perhaps America is waking up.