Posted on 04/29/2016 11:43:13 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
From the outset, and particularly since the ridiculous “Never Trump” campaign began, we have outlined the most damaging aspect to Senator Ted Cruz’s presidential bid is his continued visibility. The reasoning is simple: the more people see and hear Cruz, the more the average electorate are turned off by Cruz. He’s just not a likeable man.
A CNN article today points out the internal polling within Indiana is following this consistent pattern:
Cruz allies and people close to the campaign describe a budding sense of gloom, with internal polls diving as Trump mounted even stronger than expected showings in his native northeast. In Indiana, which Cruz backers once believed they were favored to win after his strong defeat of Trump in Wisconsin, Cruz’s numbers have fallen precipitously: Once leading, Cruz now trails in the state by eight to 10 points, according to a person who has seen the numbers, with Trump over the 40% mark. Cruz’s campaign did not respond when asked about those figures.
Indiana is the absolute last chance for Senator Ted Cruz and the entire coalition behind the #NeverTrump movement. Like Florida in March, tens of millions are now being spent to psychologically target the larger electorate in Indiana with a constant barrage of negative attack ads.
Trump internals from Indiana as of today: Trump – 51% Cruz – 32% Kasich – 13%
— The Kincannon Show (@kincannon_show) April 28, 2016
Cruz Campaign Can’t Fill A Rally: An NBC news truck was parked outside of the center. There were also five marked police cars as well as a couple of fire department vehicles. There were some cars being used to block off a sidewalk on the side of the building, but other than that nothing else stood out
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Lol...not quite ready to step into the light yet huh?
That’s OK cupcake...there will be plenty of opportunities for you to do so in the coming weeks and months.
We seem to have a difference of opinion.
Please excuse our collective immunity to Trumpian propaganda and your superior intellect.
We seem to
Just for the record, the poll being reported on local Indiana news this hour has Ted Cruz leading Donald Trump by double digit percentage points in Indiana.
And it is precisely because "Everyone Knows" it that it is demonstrably untrue. Cultists shouting "Blasphemy" have no objectivity, and so their opinions should be dismissed out of hand as a form of fanaticism.
Looking for an honest man nowadays seems to be a fools errand.
Says the guy quick to call someone a Nazi! C'mon, you're a clown. Admit it. All your posts in this thread feigning concern over Sundance's "ranting" is based entirely because you do not like what he has to say about Cruz, but you are too dishonest to say that. As for you supposedly being oh so smart and not able to find any of these "Cruz" lies, I have documented proof Cruz was supporting amnesty even after the Gang of Eight fight was over. Not one Cruzer on this website has ever been able to refute it, because they can't.
This is why Cruzers can't be taken seriously. They have low IQs and do not challenge their own candidate, but they have a LOT to say about people who oppose their ignorant opinions.
Cruzablanca: We’ll always have Wisconsin.
The polls plus poll shows Cruz winning 65-35, and the polls only poll show Trump winning 71-29.
Beyond this, I can't say how accurate the shift from such a wide margin polls only result really is. That's a very wide margin to overturn by 538's special sauce.
-PJ
I decided I would look at your video. If the first thing that was said turned out to be false or misleading, I was going to ignore the rest of it and point out to you how it was false and misleading.
Unfortunately, at the other end of your link it said:
"Your browser does not support video playback."
So unless you have a link to Youtube or something, I guess I won't be able to speak on what your video says one way or the other.
But my guess is that it is mostly misleading or outright false crap.
To the contrary. Free Republic is filled with so many links, that it is pretty much entirely up to you which one you want to pick.
Great retort!
“Then the Chicago rally happened
And Cruz showed himself to be an @$$hole. Changed my view of him.”
Good for you. That should have been a turning point for a lot of people, but it wasn’t.
Did you see Trump today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ1A-nqzXpA
Ted’s a mess!
Geography and past patterns matter in this election.
Dare I say it, Indiana’s dynamics are a bit like Wisconsin which was a state where Donald Trump failed to win.
So I give Cruz a chance but all Donald needs IMHO is a victory on May 3rd in Indiana and or May 10th in West Virginia to set the course for going over 1237 delegates on June 7th.
I have given Ted hundreds of dollars and voted for Donald Trump and his delegates earlier this week in PA.
I want to crush the Republican Establishment and hit them where it hurts. They will never change their ways until they are pushed into a corner like the corner they are in now.
I don’t hate anybody but I expect action, I expect change, I expect a conservative POTUS who moves the country in a direction like Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson did, except in the right direction this time around.
I find both guys (Trump and Cruz) limp on religious freedom and the farmer-rancher land freedom issue raised by Ammon
Bundy and others like the murdered LaVoy Finicum who came out to support the ranchers jailed for a second time as terrorists for lighting a backfire to protect their property (FREE THE HAMMONDS, DONALD AND TED).
But when guys like Lindsey Graham dislike Trump passionately and shown a glum face in saying they ‘support Cruz” I see progress.
If you don't like being called a Nazi, then perhaps you shouldn't act like a Brownshirt?
The lawsuit is a HOAX, being spread by people like Beck.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump lawyer calls ‘rape’ lawsuit a HOAX and says there’s no proof accuser exists as he claims her address and phone number are fakes and ‘clearly there’s some kind of collusion going on’
Donald Trump’s lawyer says there’s no indication that a lawsuit plaintiff who claimed Trump raped her when she was 13 is a real person
‘Based on our investigation, [there is] no evidence that the person who has made these allegations actually exists,’ attorney Alan Garten told DailyMail.com
Garten cites ‘false’ address and phone number and says whoever wrote the lawsuit ‘clearly has some legal background’
The billionaire had already ‘categorically’ denied the legal claims, made by a ‘Katie Johnson’ in a bombshell $100 million lawsuit
She claimed she was raped by the property tycoon in 1994 at billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein ‘sex parties’
The suit alleges that the Republican presidential hopeful and Epstein treated her as a ‘sex slave’ over a four-month period
Assuming these numbers are correct, it’s no big surprise. They are simply a manifestation of the final bandwagon effect as the bandwagon of the clearly emerging winner approaches the finish line: the remaining undecideds decide to hop on the bandwagon, and many others who were tepid supporters of those who are losing throw in the towel and either decide to hop on the winner’s bandwagon as well or simply decide to no longer engage in the race.
Very well put! In 2012 many of those same type of folks decided to stay home and not support Romney, who really didn’t have much support here at FR. And, that gave us a second term of Bowbama!
Where’s El Rushbo?
Let’s not forget Krauthammer ,Kristol, and Barnes.
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