Even with his low-profile Cruz garners attention. I do believe he is going to be our nominee.I've been watching the national polls right from the get-go. Here is the Real Clear Politics summary for July 18th. Cruz is in 8th place and Bush is leading with Trump in 2nd place.
And here is the current RCP summary showing Trump with a huge lead, Bush, Walker and Paul falling like rocks and our guy Ted Cruz moving from 8th to a very solid 4th.
Unless Rubio recovers or Fiorina actually catches on, which I believe is unlikely, we have a top four of Trump, Carson, Bush and Cruz. That's not bad. That's progress.
Primary-I’m supporting Cruz too, Trump donating to Harry Reid spoils him to me, but I do enjoy Trump’s calling out stupid and the poor decisions being made, but wish he would start naming names, if he is going to call names. General election I could support any Republican over every Democrat.
As for scandals, whether it be Hillary Clinton in the lead up to Benghazi or the IRS’s Louis Lerner using tax code to go after Republican supporters, it’s the micro-managing that’s getting them into trouble, barring Hillary Clinton’s email problem, which she probably thought it would never matter being she had a do-nothing job which would be micro-managed anyhow.
I want to see Bernie Sanders but the show don’t start here till later. Really funny cause it’s being perceived Democrat’s have waited too long to come up with someone better, but there’s no one better suited than a Bernie Sanders to represent the Democratic Party.
Personally, I do not think Trump can be stopped now. And, all the way to the White House.
Who knows, people may regret it later, but we won’t know how Trump will govern until he’s in office.
I’m saying this not as a Trump supporter or opponent, but as I see the momentum that is shaping up to be the campaign of 2016. The anti-incumbent/anti-politician thinking that so many people have this election is a very, very strong phenomenon and don’t think that’s likely to change—in fact, as more people pay attention, it will only grow stronger. It’s almost like the anti-Watergate era that gave us Jimmy Carter (ugh!).
Looking back on the 2008 election, it now appears to me that Bush had poisoned the well for any Republican. McCain had no chance. Stupid people thought voting for Obama would make them hip and cool to support a black man, and the media did its job by not getting into his details so people knew little more about him except he was a well spoken black man. Bill Clinton screwed up Hillary’s campaign with his screed after South Carolina, when he made remarks that the press jumped on to say the Clinton campaign was racist, and this propelled Obama further. The press pumped up McCain as an liberal Republican (The Maverick) but when it was Obama versus McCain in the Fall, McCain became a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal conservative, and picking Sarah Palin proved it to the low information voters who absolutely believe to this day that Sarah said she “could see Russia from my house!”
Trump is impervious to this driveby smear campaign. As they attack him on his faux pas, his support actually GROWS in the polls!
Why?
People—say the electorate in general, always fight the last war.
So, Carter ran as the anti-Nixon outsider, Reagan ran as the anti-Jimmy Carter “I love everyone naiveness”, Bush beat Dukakis by framing him as a Jimmy Carter-like moron, Clinton beat Bush because (Ross Perot) Clinton was seen as a Southern, not north-east bleeding heart “New” democrat. Gore almost won against Bush 2 using the Bush 1 versus Dukakis campaign tactic of 1988, but fell just short, as Gore was a horrible campaigner and debater. Obama won because people were tired of Bush, the war in Iraq, which the media spent 2003-2008 telling everyone that it was a failure, a morass we had slipped into with no way out, and Bush NEVER defended himself nor fought back. The bottom line is the pendulum really swings from one cycle to the next.
Now what do the voters have in the forefront of their minds?
Obama over reaches. Obamacare. ISIS on the rise. And remember Bill Clinton and “It’s the economy, stupid!”? Yeah, Trump’s absolutely hooked into that, as millions have lost their jobs, and illegal aliens have been hired in droves.
Trump’s stand on illegal aliens is actually an economic issue that stirs a “F Yeah!” in most voters, whether they admit to it or not. It really is a brilliant move.
The pro-illegal alien, pro-free trade with China, pro-environmentalism/Global Warming, anti-police, pro-political correctness movement noose is being steadily tightened around the democrat/GOPe necks, and the idea that Wall Street and the Chamber of Commerce runs the democrat and Republican party elites in DC is growing, not abating.
This all plays directly into Trumps run. I see it as all but a done deal.
If anyone thinks otherwise, fine, but show me how Trump loses.