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Posted on 07/20/2015 7:55:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz is the only major Republican in the field who isn’t jumping all over Donald Trump for his series of provocative comments regarding immigration and John McCain’s war service. In fact, Cruz even recently went to bat for Trump.
Cruz and Trump had a private meeting together last week at Trump’s New York City office, the Daily Mail reports, so it’s clear that the two are already talking strategy.
Trump has stolen some of Cruz’s thunder, and probably some of his vote share, early in this campaign. The latest Suffolk University poll puts Trump at 17 percent, Jeb Bush at 14, Scott Walker at 8, Cruz at 6, and Rubio at 5.
But despite trailing the billionaire by eleven points, Cruz refuses to attack Trump.
When Trump said that McCain might not be a war hero because he got captured (a Chris Rock line) Cruz asserted that McCain was indeed a hero but decided not to hit Trump, like many of his fellow candidates did.
“You know I recognize that folks in the press love to see Republican-on-Republican violence, and so you want me to say something bad about Donald Trump, or bad about John McCain or bad about anyone else,” Cruz told reporters, according to CNN. “I’m not going to do it.”
When Trump gave an impassioned speech against rapists and criminals coming over the U.S.-Mexico border, sparking boycotts in the process, Cruz said, “I salute Donald Trump for focusing on the need to address illegal immigration.”
What is Ted Cruz’s strategy here? Why is he not attacking Trump?
Trump allows Cruz to say things he wants to say without having to say them
Cruz, who led the fight to defund President Obama’s executive amnesty action, knows as well as anyone how much crime is being trafficked into America over our southern border. But why not let Donald Trump get the picket signs and the boycotts directed at him? Cruz’s firebrand status is a benefit but also a liability in a presidential race. Positioning himself as the second most-vocal and heavily-quoted conservative in the race actually does him a service — especially as Trump considers just how many hundreds of millions (and he’ll need that much) of his own money he’s going to spend if he wants to go the distance. If the Hillary Clinton people look to Bernie Sanders as a kind of unofficial voter-mobilization force for Democrats on the left, Cruz could easily use Trump the same way.
A Trump-Cruz battle in the primary would be too divisive for November voters
While both candidates have a lot of fans, they also have a lot of detractors. The last thing Cruz and Trump need is a battle of personalities between each other — especially when they agree on most issues. Too much Cruz-Trump back-and-forth during the primary, and independents will be turned off by November.
Cruz’s fundraising allows him to act like the conservative front-runner
Ted Cruz’s campaign has raised $14.3 million so far against Jeb Bush’s $11.4 million, and his super PACs have netted $37 million to Bush’s $103 million. Cruz also has a strong ground game in Iowa, where he is immensely popular with Christian voters and Trump is not (remember: Cruz also spoke and did well at the same Iowa forum where Trump’s McCain dig made headlines). Cruz can rightly claim that he’s the conservative front-runner in the race against Bush. Rand Paul isn’t giving Cruz much fundraising or polling competition on the tea party right, so Cruz needs to just keep raising money, keep setting up his ground apparatus in early states like Iowa and South Carolina, and keep watching Trump steal all the attention away from Scott Walker, who has the lowest public profile of the contenders.
Trump can weaken Jeb Bush, Cruz’s most formidable foe
The more Trump hammers Bush, calling him an “unhappy person” and promising Republicans that Bush won’t get them to the promised land, the less significant Bush’s $103 million in PAC money becomes. Cruz has always known that the road to the nomination goes through Bush. So let Trump weaken Bush … and then wait for Trump to implode.
Make sense that people with weak minds, no ideas, no spine or cajones hope others will jump on their bandwagon to no where!
I believe that's true.
I also believe that because it's true, and Trump actually has the courage, or the ability to say them and cut right to the issue, it's makes Trump the better Presidential candidate.
Okay, then vote for him. It’s a semi-free country, for a little while longer.
Cruz/Trump.
Good cop, bad cop.
Cruz did not enter the Congress to make friends or enemies but to serve his constituents and tell the truth, that truth has made for him a multitude of enemies within congress and without, yet he stands ever stronger.
Boldly battling the enemy without and within... CRUZ 2016
https://www.tedcruz.org/donate7/
I believe he’s following the 11th commandment and trying to avoid the usual MO of republicans eating their own during primary season...
Tagline.
Trump and Cruz were well acquainted BEFORE the media caught “the wind”......the meeting goes along with the race....a good move on both their parts to put it in the face of the media to run with. Keeps them both “News” Worthy.
In football parlance, Trump is creating a hole—clearing a path—for Cruz by defining and highlighting the hot button issues. If Trump can stay in the game, he might even win, but, given his lightening rod nature, that is against the odds.
We’re well over a YEAR away from elections. Real bad time to get into a bloody knock-down drag-out fight with someone whom you generally agree with. Better to keep the symbiotic relationship of multiple candidates promoting the same message, gathering supporters, and only winnowing those standing when a majority of primary voters can be solidified behind one acceptable alternative.
Remember: we ended up with Romney and McCain as the final candidates because a robust contingent of serious conservatives got split among mostly-acceptable right-wing alternatives, leaving a minor plurality to dominate the vote for the leftmost candidate.
Heh...reminiscent of gladiatorial combat where some contestants must band together to survive against the rest until they’re finally compelled to kill each other. If the final slate of primary candidates is topped by Trump and Cruz, I’ll be content that they did not duke it out earlier; better they both let each other survive to the end rather than both beat each other into oblivion early.
Yup, that’s the way I see it.
Simply: “The enemy of my enemy..”
They’re both fighting our enemy: the greedy, selfish, unified media that controls everything the populace knows- to their own profit.
Trump/Cruz or Cruz/Trump 2016
Does any evidence exist that shows Trump being anything other than a first place man?
If Trump doesn't flame out, he'll beat the tar out of Hillary or O'Malley or Sanders.
That said, I wouldn't bet money that Trump will or will not flame out.;-) The media out to be paying Trump to stay in the race...he sells advertising.
This POS sought (at globalist Roger Ailes's behest, I'm sure) to tie Cruz to Trump simply because Cruz refused to denounce Trump.
This is a stupid article.
Why don’t people use so much effort to get Dems to criticize Hillary?
Trump didn’t violate records act or take money from folks on the watch list like Hillary. Trump didn’t withold documents from congress for years like Hillary.
Yet nobody is asking Dems to hound Hillary.
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