Posted on 05/01/2016 8:47:18 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said in an interview airing Sunday that GOP front-runner Donald Trump may encourage riots if he does not win the Republican nomination in Cleveland this summer.
Asked on CBS' "Face the Nation" if he was concerned about the possibility of violence if he were able to "overthrow" Trump with the delegates in Cleveland, Cruz insisted there wouldn't but said that Trump might try to fan the flames.
"No, it won't, although Donald may do everything he can to encourage riots," he said. "You know, overthrow is such a loaded spin word as ... to bring nothing but chuckles."
Gerald Ford and Abraham Lincoln both won their respective nominations despite coming in with fewer votes than their opponents, he added, so it wouldn't be the first time that the candidate who comes out of a convention is the one who didn't win the most votes during the primaries.
"When we arrive in Cleveland, I'm going have a bunch of delegates," he said. "Donald's going have a bunch of delegates. And it's going be a battle to see who can earn the support of a majority of the delegates elected by the people."
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He was elected in Texas by acting like someone he is not...It has come out now and he is showing exactly what he’s always been....
Blind ambition combined with a serious case of narcissism will transform a very intelligent man into a very stupid one. Cruz is a pathetic weeny.
Shouldn’t cruz be talking about how Obama’s been encouraging riots???
Cruz is a POS. I hope this election sees his career getting flushed down the toilet. A so-called conservative who rivals Hillary in spewing crap.
Riots?
What has Cruz been offered to make these allegations?
Cruz playing the “Trump is violent” card for Hillary. How principled and conservative of him.
What he needs to be concerned about if he is by some miracle, hook, or crook the nominee where will he get voters?
He has not shown that he can appeal to people enough for them to go vote for him in large numbers.
Cruz blamed the Chicago riots at a Trump rally on Trump.
Now he’s preparing to do the same for Cleveland.
I am beginning to loathe Cruz. I can’t stand him.
Oh, good grief.
WHERE’S A MUZZLE WHEN YOU NEED ONE??!!
This is a deliberate conservative vote suppression tactic here by Cruz. “Trump is violent”, “Trump and Hillary are two sides of the same coin”, etc. Cruz knows he can’t win and is trying to suppress the conservative vote for Trump in November. Really, really sad.
“Might”...”could”...words chosen by liars to avoid lawsuits.
At one time, I liked Cruz, but, he has morphed into a habitual liar, back-stabber, and general sleazebag. I could NEVER trust him as POTUS.
Like Obama, I would turn the channel each time he gave a speech with his mush-mouth, elitist, pandering style.
He would be known as the president elected by stolen delegates.
As I said, at one time I liked Cruz, now, he is revolting.
“No, it won’t, although Donald may do everything he can to encourage riots,” he said. “You know, overthrow is such a loaded spin word as ... to bring nothing but chuckles.”
yeah, we all think this is hilarious..... what a clueless, egotistical putz..... and creepy. it’s not funny that a foreign born azzhat is allowed to run for the US Presidential seat..... not one bit funny.
I guess. I always had a reserve about him but last summer I convinced myself he was the guy to support. (Maybe what Texans did.) Then Trump came along and I forgot all about Cruz.
What is wrong with him? We tried to warn his supporters that something was very wrong with him.
Slimey guy, this Cruz.
He still has not denounced the Costa Mesa and San Francisco violence by the anti-Trump Marxists and Reconquista’s.
“Better be safe and vote for me, so there won’t be riots”
This guy, Ted Cruz is not wrapped too tight. I knew that the minute his nutcase Dad opened his mouth, and the day raving lunatic, Glenn Beck came out in support of Ted (Lyin’) Cruz. Any voter in the great state of indiana that casts his or her vote for Ted “unbalanced” Cruz is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, by any objective observation!!!
What an absolute slime Cruz is.
Does he really think comments like this are winning people over of improving the perception they have of him?
Perhaps he has realized that this is the high-water mark of his political career, so he’s going for broke.
Cruzer the loser has gone completely off the rails.
Maybe they did.
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