Why would Democrats want to stop Trump? He is about as popular as colon cancer to a general election audience and losing from 6-18 points to Hillary right now.
Trump is the Democrat dream candidate for them to face in the Fall. If there was one candidate in our field that was so divisive and obnoxious he had no chance of winning a general election it’s Trump.
He’s like the Presidential nominee version of former Senate candidate, and utter disaster, Todd Akin.
Heck I wouldn’t be surprised if Democrats started their own Super PAC to run ads boosting Trump till he gets nominated. And considering how much money Trump gave to Hillary, the Clinton Foundation, Pelosi, Reid and other assorted liberals it could even be their way of paying him back for previous help rendered.
Trump Gets UNEXPECTED Announcement About Blacks… Hillary Clinton Is Scared!
Bottom line, if Cruz fairs better against Hillary then all he has to do is win the Republican nomination. If he can't do that then I do not see him beating Hillary either. Because supposedly, Trump is the easier of the two to beat.
If Cruz had been vetted up to this point 1/10 as much as Trump (or lied about 1/10 as often in the media), he would be polling even lower than Trump. And we can be certain that will happen in the unlikely event he becomes the nominee. He can’t even convince the “somewhat conservative” and “moderate” Republicans to vote for him in any significant numbers. You can’t win an election with just the “very conservative,” not even the primaries, much less a general (that’s why Kasich, who doesn’t have a chance, got so much of Rubio’s support). It doesn’t matter if he energizes the base and runs up huge numbers in solidly red states. He has almost no chance of competing in purple or blue states—and that means he loses.
Part of the reason Trump has been going down in the general match-up polls lately is the never-ending onslaught of attacks and lies coming from Republicans of various stripes. Hopefully, the party will cut the BS and start opposing Hillary instead once the general comes around, and Trump’s numbers will go back up. So many Republicans blaming him for the left-wing efforts to shut down his free speech has also hurt him, when it probably would have helped him if the Republicans had stood with him against the Marxists instead. Hopefully, the #neverTrump hysterics will end after the convention.