Cruz is toast. If he can’t win in the south, he can’t win anywhere.
He needs to cut a deal for SCOTUS and endorse Trump.
I think that’s unfortunate. He’s the best one of the bunch to bring back the Presidency to what it should be.
He’d make an excellent choice to replace Scalia though.
It sure looks that way. How sad...he’s the only candidate that truly believes in the constitution, federalism, fiscal sanity, and true conservative principles.
SC was a state tailor-made for Cruz with an overwhelmingly evangelical conservative electorate.
All he had to show for it tonight was a humiliating tie with establishment favorite Marco Rubio.
Not a pathway to SEC on March 1st - and Trump should do a clean sweep there.
Ted Cruz was never going to win the GOP nomination. He is just too conservative for the average GOP voter. Couple that with the alleged dirty trix and its just not working out. Trump is getting blamed for Cruz’s poor performance but truthfully if Trump was not running Jeb and Rubio would be leading and Ted would still be likely a distant third.
SC was a must do in my opinion because if he can’t win SC then what state is he going to win. The SEC isn’t that different from SC. Southern states are southern states. I think we are going to watch Cruz do the long goodbye going forward. Or if he runs out of money the short goodbye.
A scenario that is GREAT for America.
“He needs to cut a deal for SCOTUS and endorse Trump.”
Ted Cruz is unfit for the SCOTUS due to his corrupt campaigning, dishonesty about his donors, and his refusal to comply with the Constitution’s natural born citizen clause.
And the last time Trump kept a promise was....?
At first, Cruz (like Perry) looked good....prez material, even. Then candidate Cruz (like Perry) began admitting things that trusting Texans knew nothing about.
Perry shocked his constituents when he admitted in a debate that he was using trusting Texans tax dollars to give illegals in-state tuition. Perry also installed the country's first Sharia Court in Texas....active to this day.
Cruz heaped on the surprises:
<><> I didn't know I was a Canadian citizen when I ran for the Senate until the media exposed it.
<><> I told trusting Texas voters wifey and I were liquidating family assets so I could get into the Senate.
<><> I didnt know I was supposed to tell the FEC I borrowed over a million from my Wall Street margin accounts to fund my campaign.
<><> I told Mark Levin the borrowed funds were used for campaign ads....but I didn't report this as required.
<><> And so on and so forth, ad infinitum, ad nauseaum.
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BACKSTORY Cruz/s Senate election fairy tale has become legendary......portraying himself to trusting Texans as a scrappy populist putting everything on the line to overcome a wealthy establishment opponent.
He was whining in the media, telling trusting Texans that he, and his faithful little wife (a $700,000 globalist lawyer employed by G/S), were forced to liquidate their entire family savings (of slightly more than $1 million) to fuel a come-from-behind win in the Republican primary.
NOW TRUSTING TEXANS LEARN Cruz did not liquidate family assets.....he got his hands on over a million dollars from his hefty margin accounts at G/S and Citibank......and did not disclose this on FEC reports (to keep it a secret from trusting Texans).
Cruz did not disclose loans on FEC reports (required by law) b/c Texans would have discovered he was not the aw-shucks rube he pretended to be. He continued the rube act in order to milk votes from trusting Texans.
At the same time, he also did not disclose he was a dual Canadian citizen......the Harvard-educated lawyer w/ two Ivy League degrees said he didn't know. When the Dallas Morning News published his Canadian birth certificate, Cruz put trusting Texans through the charade of renouncing his Canadian citizenship.....even though Canada did not recognize dual citizenship at that time.
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Cruz (like Perry) didn't know when to keep his mouth shut. Political blunders piled up ... it was one disaster after another. The dumb moves made will be required learning.... what not to do...... for any candidate!
The Senate would never confirm Cruz to SCOTUS.
Cruz is toast. If he cant win in the south, he cant win anywhere.
He needs to cut a deal for SCOTUS and endorse Trump.
If he's going to cut a deal with Trump, he's going to have to play by Trump's rules, and that means you don't just roll over.