Why Cruz Could Beat Clinton

nationaljournal.com ^ | April 17, 2016 | Josh Kraushaar

[John W]

Last Novem­ber, I spent a week in Ken­tucky to cov­er one of the most-loathed Re­pub­lic­ans on the bal­lot that year. Matt Bev­in, an am­bi­tious, tea-party-ori­ented busi­ness­man who had chal­lenged Sen­ate Minor­ity Lead­er Mitch Mc­Con­nell in a 2014 Sen­ate primary, was now the GOP’s gubernat­ori­al stand­ard-bear­er in the biggest race in the coun­try. Mc­Con­nell’s ad­visers tried to pre­vent Bev­in from win­ning a di­vided primary. After he se­cured the nom­in­a­tion, Re­pub­lic­an in­siders openly dis­missed his chances of win­ning the gen­er­al elec­tion; they were ex­as­per­ated that he nev­er listened to the party es­tab­lish­ment for ad­vice. Demo­crats be­lieved the preelec­tion polls show­ing their nom­in­ee, ex­per­i­enced state At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Jack Con­way, with a com­fort­able lead.

De­fy­ing con­ven­tion­al wis­dom, Bev­in won in a land­slide. Des­pite hav­ing weak ap­prov­al rat­ings, he pre­vailed be­cause his Demo­crat­ic op­pon­ent’s num­bers were even worse. And he has achieved some early con­ser­vat­ive gov­ern­ing suc­cesses in a state where Demo­crats had dom­in­ated.

Ted Cruz is Matt Bev­in, on a na­tion­al level.

[Iowa David]

Yes he is. And that is why Senator Cruz will soon be known as President Cruz.

[IrishBrigade]

Nope, not a chance...

[Donglalinger]

Because he has won 4 states where people can just go and vote.One state was Texas,another was Texas jr.

[JoSixChip]

All I can say is I would never vote for the POS. I’ll write in Trump or go 3rd party.

[datura]

The same race that then VP of the NSRC Ted Cruz allocated $250,000 to Mitch’s campaign?

[lonestar67]

Great analogy

Well reasoned.

[Diogenesis]

Liar globalist cheater spoiler Ashley Cruz
has alienated his possible voters
who will NEVER vote for the 110% untrustable
oily liar lawyer. NEVER.

Nor will he get crossover votes.

Only Mr. Trump can win.

[Iowa David]

Makes sense. Trump inspires his followers to only believe in him, the person, rather than an underlying philosophy.

[tinyowl]

The difference is, the establishment was against Matt. That's the only reason he won - the article is clear about that.

The only reason Cruz could enter the race as a serious run was that he was anti-establishment. "Anti-establishment' was Cruz's version of Obama's Black.

Had O turned white in the middle of his run against Hillary or even Mitt, no win.

Had Matt Bevin started sleeping with Mitch, there would have been no win.

Cruz got in and was taken seriously because he wasn't something that he now is. That's been exposed.

[silverleaf]

Never going to happen

BLM soros clinton the media and the wymyn of America are going to turn on him with a frenzy and frankly, watching the zombies attack and devour Cruz will not be my favorite thing but it wont keep me up at night either

[tennmountainman]

I COULD win the powerball lottery too.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

“30.86% of all eligible voters voted in the election”

It was an offyear election. Even Rand Paul beat him by 10 points. Rand went on to make ths same cruzer mistakes in his time in the senate.

Conway has proven to be a terrible candidate.

Why wasn’t the bimbo leftwing mime knocked out as well?

[JBW1949]

The only way Cruz could beat Clinton is if all the states vote like Colorado and Wyoming...No public votes....

[JoSixChip]

Makes sense. Trump inspires his followers to only believe in him, the person, rather than an underlying philosophy.

Actually it has more to do with knowing what the gopE is and why they are supporting cruz. Trump just represents actually doing what the gopE says they are going to do every election, only to do just the opposite once the election is over. Exactly like cruz did with TPA and the corker bill and now trying to disenfranchise Americans. Trump will get that wall built, will enforce the immigration laws, level the playing field when it comes to trade and eliminate government waste. The same things cruz says he will do, but we all know goldman sachs will never let him do.

[tinyowl]

Makes sense. Trump inspires his followers to only believe in him, the person, rather than an underlying philosophy.

blah blah blah Trump supporters are cult followers blah blah blah Trump is a liberal blah blah blah Trump supporters are stupid blah blah blah ....

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

He’s too creepy. He will never get popular support! Lawyer. Bizarre sect father raised him. Like voting for Jim Baker.

[dynoman]

[Iowa David]

Yes all those elites are running to Cruz. Ben Sasse says he voted for Cruz and won't endorses him. Cruz still maintains McConnell is a liar, which he is, and knows by not backing down he is losing endorsements.

The ONLY people who think Cruz is GOPe are Trump supporters. Should tell you something.

[Iowa David]

We agree that at least.