Cruz claims he's won 'landslides over and over' – even though only one of them held an election

Daily Mail UK ^ | April 18, 2016 | David Martosko

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Ted Cruz boasted Monday morning that he has won 'landslides' in the last five states to award Republican convention delegates, even though only one of those states held a popular-vote election.

'There have been a total of five states that have voted in the last three weeks,' he claimed during a town hall event on 'Good Morning America.'

'In those states, starting with Utah, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Colorado and Wyoming, 1.3 million people voted in those states. And he lost all five. We have won five in a row, and Donald's upset so he's throwing a fit.'

Cruz reiterated moments later that in 'five states in a row, we've won landslides over and over and over again.'

Ted Cruz boasted Monday morning that he has won 'landslides' in the last five states to award Republican convention delegates, even though only one of those states held a popular-vote election.

'There have been a total of five states that have voted in the last three weeks,' he claimed during a town hall event on 'Good Morning America.'

'In those states, starting with Utah, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Colorado and Wyoming, 1.3 million people voted in those states. And he lost all five. We have won five in a row, and Donald's upset so he's throwing a fit.'

Cruz reiterated moments later that in 'five states in a row, we've won landslides over and over and over again.'

[kiryandil]

“Cruz won the April 5 Wisconsin primary decisively with the help of Gov. Scott Walker and other establishment allies. That single state’s voting tally accounted for more than 82.5 per cent of the 1.3 million votes Cruz cited..."

And many of those votes were Democrats, running their own "Operation Chaoted" to keep the crLuzer in the race.

If Trump was REALLY the general election pushover, the Wisconsin Democrats could have given Ted a one-way ticket back to Texas that day.

Instead, they crossed over in the Milwaukee area counties to keep Cruz in it - because he's no threat in the general election.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

Cruz hasn’t got 50% in an actual primary yet.

[niki]

Beyond all the obvious things wrong with Cruz, it does feel like something even more sinister is at play. Cuban sleeper, just insane, dad is the power person...?

[kiryandil]

Unlike Trump who did not even do his supporters in the west the honor of showing up to encourage them.

Colorado, 2012:

                votes           delegates
Rick Santorum  26,614	40.3%       6
Mitt Romney    23,012	34.9       13
Newt Gingrich   8,445	12.8   	
Ron Paul        7,759	11.8        5

Wyoming, 2012:

                votes           delegates
Mitt Romney       577	44.0%	   23
Rick Santorum     360	27.5        2
Uncommitted       203	15.5        —
Ron Paul          160	12.2   	    1

See? In 2012, the social squish had the lock with the GOPee Establishment, just like the squish has the lock in 2016...

So, why was Trump supposed to show up again? To encourage his voters who didn't get to vote, and would have been robbed by the Tedstablishment anyway?

[Defiant]

That is a great moniker for Cruz, Sneaky Fu**er.

Imagine, if there were a professor like the one you had nowadays, they'd probably need a safe space for all his students.

[Defiant]

Thanks for carrying on the good fight today. I’ve been busy with work. Unlike 2ndDivisionVet, I don’t work for the Cruz campaign.

[manc]

No problem I had most of the day off

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3422078/posts?page=349

[JayGalt]

Good info to have. Nice to see this is not the first year those games have been played. Delegate awarding was similarly unrelated to voter input.

Rick Santorum 26,614 40.3% 6
Mitt Romney 23,012 34.9 13
Newt Gingrich 8,445 12.8
Ron Paul 7,759 11.8 5

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Sen. Ted Cruz R-Texas. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Cruz’s Texas win marks lowest home state support in 104 years

By PAUL BEDARD (@SECRETSBEDARD) • 3/2/16 10:05 AM

Sen. Ted Cruz’s victory in his home state of Texas, dubbed huge by many in the media, was the worst showing by a Republican candidate in a home state since 1913, according to a new analysis.

On Super Tuesday, Cruz won 43.7 percent of the vote, besting Donald Trump who won 26.7. But the average primary showing by Republican candidates who won their home state in the last 100 years has been 78.5 percent, according to the Smart Politics blog from Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

“To be sure, the Texas U.S. Senator’s victory in his home state – and the most delegate rich state on the primary calendar thus far – was crucial for the Cruz campaign, and avoided an embarrassment that might have pressured him to withdraw after Super Tuesday,” wrote Smart Politics’ Eric J. Ostermeier.

But, he added, “While Cruz escaped that unenviable situation, his victory in Texas is decidedly shy of impressive.”

At least he won his state, though. The report notes that some GOP presidential candidates lost their home state, but still won more vote than Cruz. In 1980 in Texas, for example, resident George H.W. Bush won 46 percent of the vote to Ronald Reagan’s 53 percent.

The highlights from Ostermeier’s latest Smart Politics report:

A Smart Politics analysis finds that Ted Cruz’s 43.8 percent showing in Texas marks the lowest support ever recorded by a Republican presidential candidate in a home state victory out of more than five-dozen campaigns to win their home state since 1912.
The previous low water mark was set 64 years ago by former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen when he won just 44.4 percent of the vote in 1952 ahead of a write-in campaign for Dwight Eisenhower that netted 37.2 percent.
Cruz became just the sixth GOP presidential candidate to carry their home state with a plurality of the vote joining Henry Ford of Michigan in 1916 (47.4 percent), Warren Harding of Ohio in 1920 (47.6 percent), Harold Stassen of Minnesota in 1952 (44.4 percent), John McCain of Arizona in 2008 (47.2 percent), and Newt Gingrich of Georgia in 2012 (47.2 percent).
The average primary showing by Republican candidates who won their home state over the last 100+ years has been 78.5 percent, with 46 of these 61 GOPers winning at least 60 percent of the vote.
One record Cruz did not set on Tuesday is the narrowest home state victory margin in Republican Party history. That mark still belongs to Michigan’s Henry Ford with his 3.0-point victory over U.S. Senator William Alden Smith in 1916.

[HarleyLady27]

http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=15468

Well either Priebus is lying again or never really meant this, I think he’s part of the ‘Satan Team’ split tongue and all...

[COUNTrecount]

Optics is the key word here, they can’t afford to look any worse than they already do without causing a revolt.

Do I trust them? Not for a New York minute.

[DoughtyOne]

[caww]

.....”Why were so many in Colorado angry enough to go out and protest this insider fraud?”.....

Because Trump manipulates that anger to accomplish what he wants. ...Unfocused anger will always make people vulnerable to people like Trump who want them to do the dirty work...that’s what the left does...manipulates the “Mobs”....

He operates with his supporters exactly as the left does their choice mobs.....manipulation...and they don’t see the truth either.

How often does he cry out as his rallys...”I love you, I love you I love you”....he can make his supporters “feel” anything he wants them to because he is a master at pushing the buttons on people to incite anger. He’s been positioning you guys for months...now you will do whatever he asks of you.

[Lions Gate]

Cruz is trying to schmooze and twist delegates because he can’t win the hearts and votes of the people. Then he brags because he won another voterless election. It’s despicable, stupid, and belongs only in a Communist dictatorship. He’s lost and needs to get out of the way.

[Lions Gate]

Cruz is trying to schmooze and twist delegates because he can’t win the hearts and votes of the people. Then he brags because he won another voterless election. It’s despicable, stupid, and belongs only in a Communist dictatorship. He’s lost and needs to get out of the way.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[dragnet2]

I see, tens of millions have been conned by a guy who wants to bring America back from years of decline. LOL! I have no idea where you get all that. Do yourself a favor and stay out of the human profiling biz!

And from my perspective here and elsewhere, the most intelligent comments seem to come from those who support Trump. No offense intended though.

[Repeal The 17th]

Screw the GOPe.
I really think it is time for Cruz to drop out
and run as a 3rd party candidate.
That’ll show ‘em!

[baltimorepoet]

He’s about to see what a REAL landslide looks like.

[PrairieLady2]

I like your tag line :)