Cruz supporters alarmed by possible Trump endorsement
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
I don’t trust Cruz anymore than I trust Hillary but I would have voted for him if he had been the gop candidate, to stop Hillary.
Where do these nevertrumpers who call themselves conservative congregate online these days, I got a few things I want to tell them?
Being that I was a strong Cruzer until the convention, I’d say a larger number of folks are alarmed that he hasn’t endorsed.
Amen
ENDORSE TRUMP NOW*** SENATOR CRUZ!!
This former supporter of your candidancy is very disturbed that you have not done so earlier.
“Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.”
Interesting comment, given Cruz’s actions these last months.
His chance of ever getting the nom was once not bad, but now it's not possible.
Were he to endorse Cruz/Pence (without any petulant, snarky comments or whining), it might help Mister Cruz, but it would not unring the awful bell of his disgraceful convention performance.
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Even if he does he can still ESAD. IMO
I would sub in the word “pleased” rather than “alarmed”, speaking for myself.
Goodwill -- would those be the people who were too polite to boo at the Convention?
>>The senator even took the extraordinary step of declining to endorse Trump during a televised, prime time speech delivered from the stage of the New York businessman’s own nominating convention.
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When someone shows you their true character, believe them.
I don’t think he’ll do it, and I say this because this is about Ted calculating his political future. Ted has already alienated Trump supporters. What does Ted have left? Ted has his diehards who have stood by him, whether it’s trying to get Trump kicked out at the convention or whether it’s after he was resoundingly booed off the stage at the convention. They’ve stood by him to the point that they still make known on Twitter that they are Cruz supporters and go around bashing Trump and retweeting anti-Trump stuff put up by Hillary supporters.
At first, to Ted and his supporters, his stunt at the convention seemed like a good gamble because Hillary had her big convention bump in the polls and Trump’s poll numbers dropped after comments about Russia (of course he wasn’t encouraging espionage but media made it out like that), the Kahn controversy, and various other off the cuff statements. A series of high profile (establishment) Republicans came out in support of Hillary. They thought that Trump would lose and Ted could say, “See, I told you! Vote me in 2020!” However, Trump hired Kellyanne Conway and has turned things around and surged in the polls. For a while, the media kept speculating if he could act Presidential. You don’t hear them speculating on that talking point like they used to. He has a good shot at winning now with momentum on his side.
If Ted changes his mind now, he may garner some favor with Trump voters, but he figures other Trump voters will still remember his actions and think that he sees a Trump win possibility or at least the degree of Trump’s popularity and think he is doing it for their vote in future elections. Recall that Ted has to run for Senate in 2018. Also, he risks losing his base of diehards that still see him as their hero and lament over the fact that he is not on the ballot.
Ted is trying to calculate in his mind if he can support Trump and regain Trump supporters who once liked him while keeping his base of supporters or if he should stay the course. Yeah, he’s still bitter about Heidi and his dad (according to him after he was booed), but ultimately, Ted wants to be President someday, and political calculations are in mind.
Cruz is a Globalist wrapping himself in his version of a conservative blanket. A NWO Globalist could never truly support an “America First” candidate like Trump. Even if he does endorse, at this point it means nothing. In the long run it means even less as he will continue pushing his NWO Globalist agenda.
I WAS a Ted Cruz supporter, but he lost me with his non endorsement of Trump at the convention. An endorsement now means NOTHING to me.....
I bet the endorsement will happen. Not full-throated but enough to urge his supporters to get out and get Trump elected.
Clarity was never a Team Cruz strong suit