“Trump has only acknowledged the state of the loyal voters if they are ignored.”
Trump had no choice but to acknowledge what his supporters would do. We all saw the writing on the wall. He needed to put a shot across their bow to back them off.
Exactly.
He is very clever in the way he handles the eGOP, media and pundits that are out to get him.
Cruz is in a battle of wits and is unarmed.
Or like in the “old west” gets his “gun”(attacks) shot out of his hand, that is in the metaphorical sense, mouth.