I was shaking my head about the whole 50% or drop out from the Cruz camp because he flunked his own test.
Cruz won Wisconsin with about 48%.
Breaking News? Maybe xzins should drop out.
All sides are trying to get campaign shelf space. When Cruz ran, the vote was split up among more candidates, and he certainly would have gotten more if Carson and Runio were already out.
The “Trump should get out if he doesn’t get 50% in NY” strikes me as more as a “tit for tat” in response to the converse calls made at various times against Cruz.
I don’t take it seriously, and I perfectly understand Trumpers and others laughing it off.
Is the number of official candidates in the race not a consideration? Just sayin’.
Yeah, it’s a dumb argument for Cruz to make, especially because the retort that Cruz didn’t win a majority in Texas is so obvious.
Cruz received 104 of 155 Texas Delegates.
I’m thinking there might have been a few more people in the race at Texas. Not a 2.5 person race like there is now.
Your (stale) opinion is Breaking News? Aren’t there threads (Also in Breaking News) that you are in that have already made this point?
Why yes. Yes there are.
That’s correct.
If Cruz had actual principles he would drop out after New York to stop the GOPe agenda to disenfranchise the Republican base of their votes using a corrupt brokered convention and 19th Century cigar tactics of establishment control when we didn’t have the internet, smartphones and tv and cameras and social media et all. Today we can watch them, not be husking corn in 1890 while they do things no one knew they did. To hell with their 19th Century rules that aren’t in the Constitution where they decide instead of the base, Cruz is enabling them to continue to ignore us like some untouchables in an American caste system! If he had real principles he would drop out.
Why is this a big news story? Isn’t this what candidates always say?
I love this thought, I hate this placement. It is not breaking news.
Don’t.
It takes a Trump-sized ego to post a vanity in breaking news.
I think it is funny how everyone on FR is getting so bent out of shape over this comment. It is politics. The whole point of the comment was to get attention and it did just that. At this point I am not sure who will gain the nomination but I know I will vote for Cruz or Trump and no one else at this point. So, to me, right now is all about getting noticed. Trump gets noticed all the time for the, sometimes, over the top things he says. Cruz gets noticed for the, sometimes, over the top things he says. So what...
Donald The Shorthanded — again — underperformed polling in Texas, as with most other states.
He should roll it up and go home.
Ted Cruz is relying on numbskulls to keep the faith no matter what.
The only thing that really matters about 50% is the threshold trigger for a greater delegate haul...If Trump eclipses 50%, he’ll get close to or all of the 95 NY delegates.
If Trump falls below 50%, Cruz and Kasich could reduce that somewhat by proportional allocation. 95 versus 0 >>> 65 versus 30! Could make a difference in reaching 1,237!
Looks like Cruz is just trying to bait Trump into another Twitter hissy fit!
Also, looks like Donald got his smartphone back from Ivanka overnight! ;-)
For being such a master of rhetoric and strategy, Cruz sure does say a lot of stupid stuff that boomerangs back on him!