Posted on 03/27/2016 6:24:00 PM PDT by cba123
Ted Cruz was naming friends.
Seated for an interview inside a stately Midtown Manhattan library, just south of Trump Tower, the Texas senator leaned forward in his chair, ticking off the unlikely coalition drifting his way.
There was Jeb Bush, who announced his endorsement in a terse predawn news release, and Mitt Romney, who initially said his support applied only to his voting preference in Utah.
Mr. Cruz had swung Mike Lee, his greatest ally in the Senate, nearly a year after his campaign began, and Mark Levin, a conservative radio host who recently made his longstanding admiration on the airwaves official.
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While the Romney and Bush endorsements drew headlines, what has been just as striking is the sound of silence from the vast majority of Republican elected officials and leading donors. Nearly two weeks after Senator Marco Rubio dropped out of the race, there has been no mass rush to Mr. Cruz, even as he appears to be the last line of defense against a Trump nomination.
The decision by so many leading Republicans to remain on the sidelines is all the more notable because it appears inversely proportional to the scale of concern about Mr. Trump. His recent attacks on Mr. Cruz’s wife and soaring unpopularity among women, minorities and college-educated voters have left many in the party more convinced than ever that, with Mr. Trump as their standard-bearer, they are churning toward a political iceberg this fall.
But this fear has not been enough to coax them in Mr. Cruz’s direction.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/28/us/politics/ted-cruz-names-friends-but-silence-from-gop-brass-deafens.html?action=click&contentCollection=Asia%20Pacific&module=Trending&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article
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Standing down is a decision that would be based on wisdom, not smarts.
Cruz has shown time and again wisdom is something he sorely lacks.
Ain’t gonna happen.
He’s doomed to be sidelined.
Even a Vegan will duck into a butcher’s shop to get out of a hailstorm. Doesn’t make them a meat eater. Just because the “establishment” is reluctantly backing Cruz doesn’t mean he’s a RINO.
No, but cruz’s support of TPA the corker bill, blm and the sources of his funding do.
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Cruz’s votes also prove he is no Conservative.
Primary vote winning percentages is different to national voting.
Someone’s going to be the not Trump. If it isn’t Cruz, it will be Kasich. If Trump is so popular, let him get the 1,237 delegates and it’s over. If he doesn’t, it isn’t. You don’t win allies by saying, be reasonable and do it my way.
Cruz is the closest thing to Reagan in my lifetime. --- Rush Limbaugh ( might be back on the oxy)
Super Tuesday after Trump wins everything but Ohio
Rush never mentions their was an election the night before his show.
Lol!
I agree with you about wise vs smart when it comes to Cruz. He has made many mistakes in his campaign and done more to undermine himself. I think he has terrible instincts, no finesse.
His recent attacks on Mr. Cruz’s wife
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When did that happen?
No, he is not.
So far, Trump has won 37% of the votes cast, netting him a total of 48% of the delegates awarded (739 for Trump, 465 for Cruz, and 326 for Rubio, Kasich, Carson, Jeb!, Rand, Huckabee and Fiorina).
In order to get the nomination, Trump has to win at least 53% of the 944 remaining delegates, which is much better than he has done so far in the campaign, when the vote was being split among multiple candidates and a 37% plurality was enough to get all of the delegates in the winner take all states.
If Trump wins more than 53% of the remaining delegates then he will win the nomination outright before the convention. The issue is what happens in the very likely event that Trump wins less than 53% of the remaining delegates.
If Cruz wins 53% of the remaining delegates, he would not win enough to win the nomination outright before the convention, but he would win enough to take the lead from Trump going into the convention. If Cruz is in the lead going into the convention will Trump be obligated to withdraw? Will it be stealing the nomination from Cruz if it is not automatically awarded to him? Of course not. That only applies to Trump.
In the far more likely scenario that neither Trump nor Cruz gets more than 53% of the remaining delegates and they split them (with some small number going to Kasich), then neither will win the nomination before the first vote at the convention.
The delegates will then all be free to vote for any eligible candidate. Who are the eligible candidates? Only the candidates that have won a majority of delegates in at least 8 states (GOP Convention Rule 40). Unless Kasich suddenly wins 7 of the remaining primaries, the only eligible candidates will be Trump and Cruz.
So unless either Trump's or Cruz's delegates suddenly bail on their candidate and switch sides, the nomination will be determined by whichever one can win over the delegates that were pledged to Rubio, Kasich, Carson, Jeb!, and the other candidates that could not win enough states to be eligible. This is the only reason that Kasich is still in the race, to try and win enough delegates to give him leverage to negotiate a deal to swing the nomination to either Trump or Cruz.
It probably doesn't matter either way, however, since Trump supporters are declaring that they will never support anyone else and 40% of the Republicans polled say that they will never support Trump. So get ready for President Hillary.
New Hampshire (11)
Hawaii (11)
Michigan (25)
Mississippi (24)
Louisiana (18)
Kentucky (17)
So. Carolina (50)
No. Carolina (29)
Alabama (36)
Massachusetts (22)
Tennessee (33)
Arkansas (16)
Virginia (17)
Vermont (8)
Georgia (40)
Nevada (14)
Arizona (55)
Florida (99)
He has delegates in States that Cruz won:
Maine (9)
Texas (48)
Oklahoma (12)
Kansas (9)
Iowa (7)
Minn. (8)
Idaho (12)
Alaska (11)
The only State Trump hasn't taken any delegates in is Utah.
From FiveThirtyEight: 739 delegates.
Hey it’s the New York Times.
You expect good reporting from them?
I can’t think of a single reason why Ted Cruz should retire from the field of battle today any more than the Orange ought to have left the floor of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament when they were down double digits against both Gonzaga and Virginia, and where they went on to win both games.
Just like Ted Cruz will first beat Donald Trump for the nomination and then beat any candidate the Democrats choose to run against him.
If Donald Trump thinks he has the will and the ability to change that outcome, he should then try to do so like a man and stop acting like a 5th grade drama queen crybaby.
Wow. You are a NOOB but you did an excellent job of posting a thread. Formatted properly with explanations in parentheses.
GOOD JOB !
I guess you didn't get the memo:
http://youtu.be/zwIHJhtTSLg
Thank you.
I’ve actually been here awhile, I’m just posting under a new handle while I am travelling.
But nice post, thanks.
Look I just moved from Texas, and frankly I am a bit surprised that Texans are going a bit overboard in backing a guy who is effectively a stand-in for the Bush administration.
Oh wait. Now I see...
:D
I think he’s been lyin’ down too much in too many places. Though there are rumors about bathrooms and campaign busses, so he may have been standing for part of that too.
Cruz has repeatedly demonstrated poor lack of judgement. He’s naive about the realities of the world outside a courtroom.
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