[USNBandit]

The concept that Cruz could have won the nomination with help from the GOP supposes that Cruz could survived the onslaught of the general election. Cruz would have mopped the floor with Hillary in the debates, but would he have gone all the way with bringing up Clinton's past and present behaviors? I don't know.

I always figured a President Trump wouldn't be nearly as conservative as candidate Trump. So far I am very pleasantly surprised at the cabinet talk. Attorney General Sessions, Secretary of Defense Mattis? Throw in a Secretary of State that doesn't mince words about the threat of radical Islam and we may get somewhere. Give me Rudy Giuliani as the head of DHS and unleash ICE and CBP and I will be really happy.

[ModelBreaker]

“I always figured a President Trump wouldn’t be nearly as conservative as candidate Trump.”

He’s maybe unorthodox that way too. R’s usually govern as extreme moderates as soon as they take office, regardless that they campaigned as conservatives.

Trump may actually govern more conservatively than he ran.

[kearnyirish2]

I like Cruz, but he would have been an easier target for the enemedia to demonize. People who’d seen Trump in the public eye for decades weren’t frightened by him - especially blacks, Hispanics, and gay who together could have certainly delivered the White House to Hillary (the margins were that close in key states).