Posted on 04/24/2016 7:28:05 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
Ted Cruz and John Kasich are ceding states to each other as part of a broader effort to stop Donald Trump, an abrupt change in strategy that the campaigns announced Sunday night.
“To ensure that we nominate a Republican who can unify the Republican Party and win in November, our campaign will focus its time and resources in Indiana and in turn clear the path for Gov. Kasich to compete in Oregon and New Mexico, and we would hope that allies of both campaigns would follow our lead,” Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe said in a statement.
Previously, the Cruz campaign had largely refused to acknowledge the Ohio governor’s presence in the race except to dismiss him as a spoiler.
“Who?” Roe replied last week, when asked by reporters about Kasich.
The Cruz campaign had also previously planned to compete in those states, especially in New Mexico, with a memo from the campaign last month saying data showed that Cruz could win a majority of that state’s delegates.
Also Sunday, Kasich chief strategist John Weaver announced, “we will shift our campaign’s resources West and give the Cruz campaign a clear path in Indiana.
In turn, we will focus our time and resources in New Mexico and Oregon, both areas that are structurally similar to the Northeast politically, where Gov. Kasich is performing well. We would expect independent third-party groups to do the same and honor the commitments made by the Cruz and Kasich campaigns.”
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Exactly like Rubio asking his voters to vote for Ksuck in Ohio.
If this is true, Ted Cruz is dead to me.
That didn't stop Trump, either.
Lyin Ted and Kaisick came to know that they are not on list of probable VP.
That is spooky! Considering the speculation that Ted’s dad worked on LYndon Johnson’s assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Funny you should say that. That's exactly how I always pronounced it, even before I knew he was a weirdo...strange eyes.
He had a show on FNC.
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Wow, just announced that Lyin’ Ted and Kasich are going to collude in order to keep me from getting the Republican nomination. DESPERATION!
8:39 PM - 24 Apr 2016
Ted was running out of money... if the GOPe didn’t own him before - they own him now.
He was born w/a likeness to a donkeys rear end and everything went south from that moment.
As for his FOX days, they gleefully fired his sorry ass because he was to stupid to learn and to arrogant to change; a cold fact my nephew confided in me.
Me too! I wasn’t sure the resemblance was that close until I saw this pic, now I believe in reincarnation ;-)
Ted really is nothing but a GOPe shill at this point. Totally exposed.
Trump for President.
The two outlier losers want to “unify the party” by eliminating the front runner. Okaaaaay.
No wonder they are losers.
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“I wasn’t sure the resemblance was that close until I saw this pic”
I’m old enough to have indelible mental images of LBJ. First time I ever saw Ted Cruz, the resemblance struck me immediately.
Even creepier, was the fact that he would soon be a senator from Texas - just like LBJ was.
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