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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“48% of the delegates awarded”
It looks like Trump has received 58% of the delegates since and including March 15 primaries
And in this group he got shutout in two, Ohio and Utah, for 0/106
Trump already won Arizona. I think he wins Wisconsin too but we’ll see.
Are you insane? Trump attacks Cruz’s family and you want him to stand down to help Trump?
Get a grip. Sleazy Donald has made every other candidate in the race hate him. No one is going to work with him. NO ONE.
Next week you will start to see endorsements start coming in for Cruz. Starting with Scott Walker.
48% of the delegates awarded”
It looks like Trump has received 58% of the delegates since and including March 15 primaries
And in this group he got shutout in two, Ohio and Utah, for 0/106
April 1-26 ... He should do 60% of delegates, and I included getting shutout in North Dakota and Wisconsin (where he has as good a chance as anybody, for another 42 delegates
Every other candidate is a Globalist fu@k
You say: “Rush should have been sent to prison for the oxy and for doctor shopping. Anyone else would have. That’s when he started taking gopE orders.”
You know, I think that you are on to something. Wasn’t it Roy Black the gunslinger attorney who worked for Bush during the Florida standoff with Gore. Black was/is owned by the GOPe and was then called in to save Rush’s rear end during the slam dunk prosecution of the GOPe’s best spokes person, Rush Limbaugh.
This is a tough one for me as I have learned so very much from and because of Rush, but I do believe that devil drugs and fame can influence any man and as if drugs wasn’t enough ... well just remember ... when the devil want’s to bring down a good man, he sends in a woman.
You can count on it ... and Rush’s Viagra follow up session in life was all about women....Just sayin.
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics."
It looks like Trump has only received 43% of the delegates if you only count the primaries and caucuses on March 1. It looks like Trump has only received 23% of the delegates if you count all of the primaries and caucuses up to and including February 1.
If, however, you actually count all of the caucuses and primaries and all of the delegates that have been awarded to to date, then it looks like Trump has won approximately 30% of the vote and been awarded approximately 48% (739 out of 1530) of the delegates.
Sorry. I meant Indiana. All of those flyover states look the same to me. ;-)
“Lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Wasn’t trying to lie. Trying to show that he has outperformed from March 8 on and will probably do the same higher percentages going forward given states ahead. That said, he will need it to get to 1237.
Cruz’s PAC first attacked Trump’s family, Trump only responded to the attack.
You can split off responsibility from Cruz if you want, but Donald saw them as coming from Cruz, and I tend to agree with him.
Cruz needs to stand down, and get together with Trump.
Big time.
“...has repeatedly demonstrated poor lack of judgement.”
I would prefer to be accused of having a “poor lack of judgement” rather than a “great lack of judgement.”
If you are looking for current trends, then why not limit the range to the most recent primaries?
Since March 15, there have been two primaries. Trump won Arizona with 47% of the vote and Cruz won Utah with 69% of the vote.
The next scheduled primary is Wisconsin. According to the media polls, Cruz should win Wisconsin, but media polls are about as accurate as flipping a coin so we shall see.
Next comes New York. I expect Trump to win New York, but it is a hybrid primary and is only winner take all if a candidate wins more than 50% of the vote. Cruz and Kasich combined will probably keep Trump below 50%, so Trump will win most but not all of the delegates (just like Cruz won most but not all of the delegates in Texas).
Touche
It was not Cruz's PAC. It was an unaffiliated anti-Trump PAC that no one had ever heard of before, that had raised a total of $20,000, and that got millions of dollars in free publicity by running a Facebook ad with a semi-nude picture of Trump's wife (which she was paid to pose for).
https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2016&strID=C00594176
Sorry. I just couldn’t resist.
Trump has 754 delegates; Alaska became a tie when Rubio’s delegates were reallocated. Trump has won 61% of the delegates he needs to win the nomination. He’s over the hump. Cruz, at 465, has won 37% of the delegates he needs and is struggling to reach the 50% mark.
Cruz is the conservative voice, if he leaves only 5he leftist will have a voice.
“but Silence From G.O.P. Brass Deafens”
That’s because the smart money is one Trump winning the nomination AND the Presidency, and the great bulk of ordinary elected officials are NOT part of the GOPe aristocracy and have little to win by opposing Trump and much to gain by not opposing him.
It’s mainly the GOPe movers and shakers that stand to lose when Trump wins the Presidency, not the little guys that forced to take orders from the “leadership”.
If the little guys REALLY thought Trump had no chance, they’d be lining up against him quicker than you can say Jim Robinson.
Cruz did really well in Arizona, didn't he?
Check your rear-view mirror, Nostradamus.
LOL
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