Cruz's Image Plummets, Trump's Improves Among Republicans

Gallup.com ^ | 05/02/2016 | Frank Newport

[RonPaulLives]

I don’t have a dog in this Cruz-Trump fight, but I think the race is over. Trump gets the number of delegates needed and wins this thing going away. I would guess no contested convention.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The republican establishment is beginning to feel comfortable with Mr. Trump. Like his golf buddy John Boehner.

[Harpotoo]

Go Trump Go!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

He became more and more little.

This is a good portion of it, I think.

Trump's two core issues -- hammered home over and over and over again -- are the twin menaces of Illegal Immigration and Islamofascism. These are clear, pressing issues, facing each and every one of us.

Cruz, by way of comparison...:

This sort of silly, "Church Lady"-type stuff may send thrills up and down the legs of his most unblinkingly fanatic followers... but: Cruz's own issues of choice (particularly of late) simply aren't even blips on the national radar, overall.

Great men wrestle with great ideas and issues. By that measure, Cruz has long since rendered himself all but microscopic.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Donald seems to be going for the position of alpha dog of the pack. That means grabbing some rivals and shaking them, but not killing them. Once they say uncle, he progresses to the next.

[Arthur McGowan]

Cruz disembiggened himself, starting in January.

[johniegrad]

What the hell happened to this guy?

I don't think anything happened to him. Rather, the vetting process of the primary season has been long enough to see who he really is.

He's determined and clever (for the most part) but doesn't seem to be particularly likable.

But I think his true colors came out the further behind he got. He would go to any length to try to achieve the nomination but stayed within the rules, as much as many of us disagree with them.

in the process, he came across as manipulative and as trying to thwart the will of the primary voters. I'm not saying that he actually WANTED to circumvent voters but it gave that appearance. Nobody likes that.

I just think Cruz is being Cruz and that seems to be increasingly off putting to a lot of people.

It also could be that the establishment cut him some sort of back room deal to hang on like he's hanging on. I hope that was the case because it might make him seem less objectionable.

[New Jersey Realist]

He never should have went negative on Trump. I lost all respect for him at that point. A decent person is raised properly by the golden rule and he must live by it. Also everyone’s mama says, “if you have nothing good to say about someone, say nothing.” (I must admit I have made an exception for Cruz because of his actions.)

Even worse: Claiming that he is on a mission for God. How dare that sanctimonious so and so raising up his arms to the heavens like he is Jesus returned. God may forgive him but I will never forget.

[JPJones]

“you are right on

Cruz is now in the final minutes of the fourth quarter and committing all the fouls he can to try to stop his loss.”

I’ve always liked Cruz, he’d have made a great president, say what you will, he’s a fighter.

Problem is, he could never beat Hillary.

Trump will crush her.

[johniegrad]

Interesting. My opinion of both of them has gone down.

I couldn't agree more.

[silverleaf]

Preparing to come off its 3rd place victory in Indiana, the carlyCruz campaign readies for yet another 3rd place victory in California

[HiTech RedNeck]

Even the bathroom issue is a grand distraction in the scheme of political things, in spite of getting a whopping 0.4% of America to sign up as hating Target over it.

Getting the sex genie to go back into the bottle is a church, evangelism, God thing. It can’t be a politician thing.

[JPG]

Trump is Trump.

Cruz, and the others, will be whatever you'd like them to be.

[Radix]

Very positive thing for Cruz to be coming in third in a ‘2 man race.’

[Arthur McGowan]

Lead Church Lady: Steve Deace.

[JerseyDvl]

Cruz hasn’t talked about anything substantive in months. It’s all Donald Trump all the time and he whines incessantly about Media coverage while turning down invites left and right.
80% now oppose him nationally and this is the end of the road for Lying Ted Cruz.

[silverleaf]

You had a real good mama

[Texsun45]

I am a Cruz supporter but at this point I am ready for him to conceded defeat and work at making sure Hillary does not get elected. Cruz is hated by the establishment, and does not enjoy the media adoration that Trump does so he has no chance. Trump proves that even conservatives are not immune to celebrity worship, he tossed a few bones out early about the “wall” and other sound good tidbits and he had his following. All of you who love and adore Trump, pay close attention to advisors he surrounds himself with, he has no core ideology that drives him, and has shown limited knowledge about how to govern, so he will be whatever advisors he has surrounded himself with.

[Don Corleone]

Oh where oh where can Kate Smith be?

[xzins]

What went wrong?

It’s pretty simple. He kept misrepresenting reality, and the words, actions, and decisions of other people, and it irked them and their supporters.

It began with Carson’s campaign in Iowa, went to the flyers distributed in Iowa, to any position of any candidate — not just Trump.

And who really believes a super lawyer would not know that he has Canadian citizenship when he has his own Canadian birth certificate in his hand.