Posted on 09/19/2015 9:45:18 AM PDT by Isara
Grassroots Momentum Helps Cruz Top Previous Post-Debate Haul of $1M in 100 Hours
HOUSTON, Texas – In the first 48 hours following the second GOP presidential debate, the Cruz for President campaign has again seen a fundraising surge topping $1M in new monies raised.
The numbers are impressive:
“I am thrilled by the outpouring of financial support we’ve seen in such a short amount of time,” said Sen. Ted Cruz. “The American people are rising up and we are seeing an explosion of momentum. They want an outsider, someone who will stand up to career politicians from both parties and fight the Washington Cartel. They want real leadership from a consistent conservative, not a campaign conservative.”
Today’s fundraising announcement puts a capstone on a week of impressive grassroots momentum for the Cruz campaign. Yesterday, South Carolina State Representative Wendy Nanney became the 500th member among state leadership teams the Cruz campaign is building across the country.
Cruz’s strong debate performances, impressive fundraising hauls, and growing grassroots organizational strength stretching from the early primary states to the 3/1 SEC Primary states and beyond, have Cruz well-positioned to capture the Republican nomination.
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DANG
Just think of the success he would have if co called conservatives acted like like the conservatives they claim online to be and supported him.
I think a lot of people need to look up ‘Self fulfilling prophecy” and read the definition before posting “Cruz can’t win”. Might turn this around.
agreed. a lot of people run with crowds. If Cruz was number one in the polls a lot more people would jump on his bandwagon.
As I’ve said from the beginning, it takes money but we all need to do everything we can to show our support. If we can volunteer to help we can do that. I’m happy to provide pro Cruz graphics on twitter nearly every day.
With an astonishing amount of money raised in the amount of time involved, along with the crowds attending, and the reactions of those crowds, I find it
IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE THE POLLS.
It’s a shock, I know, but someone is lying.
That is not what the media want, therefore, the bogus reporting on polls. I daresay they do not even mention his name when giving the choices by the pollsters
Has Cruz clarified his immigration position? Still no mass deportation? Wall? Anchor babies? Still thinks they can stay forever and not become citizens? Still an increase in h1bs and green cards?
As a Cruz support since before day one, he left a wide open door for Trump to tap into the energy that was building in the grassroots. Trump got it and people are standing with him. That’s just the way it goes.
Cruz is still in this for sure. He has tons of cash, is being ignored, and is not being attacked. The best warrior is the one that doesn’t have to fight, and he doesnt need to right now. Let the RINOS and GOPE-backed nobodies flame in, and flame out. Just less money Cruz has to blow.
He is also running a dual-campaign with Trump, and that is what is going to take these two into the primaries where they are going to beat the tar out of JeBush or whomever the GOPEs toss money at.
Bush is toast.
With zero grass roots support and Biden joining the D race, the plan to have Dem crossovers power Bush to the nomination is dead.
He has been somewhat shut out by the media and the pundits. They try as much as possible to not talk about him or mention his name. However, he is still going on.
He still laments not getting the 500% increase in H1-B workers. I guess he wants a lot more Disney-type layoffs to occur.
Ted Cruz is for the rule of law... not to hand favors to corrupt cronies, like a whole lot of republicans. Another reason gop-e politicians and their supporters are trying to prevent Ted from winning. The gravy train will end.
If Cruz cares about the “rule of law,” then why didn’t he include provisions making that important with his request for 500% more immigrants?
As a sharp lawyer and stateman, he can’t be that stupid to not know what you say.
I’ve done my part. Who’s with me?
I agree with everyone so far. I’m sure someone will come along that I’ll disagree with in here. But not at this point. ;)
This is very impressive from Cruz and for Cruz. I too find it odd when people say, “I like Cruz and I support him or would support him but he doesn’t have the numbers to win.”
Last I checked, no one has cast any votes yet. We also know that the year he ran, Rudy Giuliani early on was blowing the field away with polling numbers not dissimilar to Trump’s. Now I do think Trump has more staying power. But we’ll see what happens.
I don’t know if the polls are completely manipulated or not. I do know this. While he says good, engaging things, I still FIRMLY BELIEVE that MUCH of Trump’s support is because the media has put the biggest and brightest spotlight directly on him. Yes, he’s savvy enough to take advantage of it. But I STILL BELIEVE, that, even if the media disagrees with what Trump is saying, they’re really not threatened by him. I think they’re entertained by him and they consider all of this to be an interesting and fun little game.
Cruz has been given less time and less opportunity to speak out of 10 or 11 candidates now in both debates. And yet, with the words that he does speak, he basically out raises everyone immediately afterward (that I know of). Trump obviously is anomaly in the sense that he’s not depending on fundraising.
But Cruz, I think clearly is the one most feared and despised by the media, and respectfully by the GOPe. Yes they “hate” Trump for what he’s saying. Yes they hate Trump because he doesn’t need their money. But I again FIRMLY BELIEVE that if we were to theoretically take that money away from Trump, make him a guy from New York who ran for and got elected to Congress, needing to fund raise, and Donald Trump would make a nice country club Republican fitting right in and right alongside the Mitch McConnell’s, John Bohener’s, and Peter King’s of Congress.
Cruz on the other hand is a guy who DOES have to fund raise and STILL fights against the establishment. That actually says a lot more to me than a guy who fights against them because he can because he doesn’t need their money.
I find it odd too, maybe not surprising, but odd, going back to the comment concerning if people are as conservative as they claim on the internet, Cruz would be doing better- we’ve got a lot of followers it seems. A lot of “follow the crowd” types, even as they complain about the crowd and the establishment. Now if you like Trump, you like Trump. I’m going to disagree with you. I’m not NECESSARILY going to try to change you. If Donald Trump winds up being the nominee, he’ll have every opportunity to convince me to vote for him, one way or another.
But the whole, “Trump has the numbers to win so I’m riding him” idea, well if polls show that say Joe Biden, if he gets in, polls above Donald Trump, than based on what the numbers say, maybe we should then support Biden.
I know that sounds silly. I know that is silly. I know no one here is going to do something like that. But at the same time, if you’re just going to follow the crowd, well, follow the crowd I guess.
But as for me, I will not. I’ll support whom I see as the most consistent and principled conservative, and by the way, an authentic Christian, which is big for me. And I’ll always try to point out all those things when and where I can.
Saying that Cruz wants 500% more immigrants is just false. He is for reducing immigration and limiting immigrants overall. His call was for an increase in H1-B Visas. These are temporary visas that go to highly qualified professionals. I don’t agree with that position, but he is not for increasing immigration in general, but wants to decrease it.
Has Trump explained why he wants to import “our fair share” of Syrian muzzies?
I wouldn’t even waste time with these idiots. They’re not very intelligent and are utterly beneath contempt.
Like most sleeper trolls who show up for elections, they’re 100% in for whoever the establishment picks for us despite what they say now.
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