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Cruz bullish on his 2024 chances: 'The runner-up is almost always the next nominee'
The Hill ^ | 12/23/21 | BRAD DRESS

Posted on 12/23/2021 2:42:29 PM PST by conservative98

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To: silent_jonny

LOL
https://youtu.be/S8ALCbEPoEY Fiorina in flight, off stage front.


21 posted on 12/23/2021 2:56:51 PM PST by JayGalt (For evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing.”)
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To: silent_jonny

22 posted on 12/23/2021 2:57:06 PM PST by conservative98
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To: alternatives?

Maybe but it’s a narrow field. I ain’t voting for a democrap.


23 posted on 12/23/2021 3:00:00 PM PST by Equine1952
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To: conservative98

The Hill?

Cruz would be more effective as AG.


24 posted on 12/23/2021 3:00:40 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (No nation that sanctions the wholesale slaughter of its unborn citizens is fit to endure.)
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To: conservative98

If Trump keeps pushing and bragging about the shot, who knows what could happen


25 posted on 12/23/2021 3:02:41 PM PST by roving
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To: conservative98

Cruz is needed in the senate. Trump will run, probably a 95% chance. If he doesn’t run Ron DeSantis will.


27 posted on 12/23/2021 3:04:19 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: JayGalt
She was gone! Like she was standing on a trap door.


28 posted on 12/23/2021 3:08:22 PM PST by silent_jonny (Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin, Joe. The feet are at the door (Acts 5:9) 9-18-21)
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To: irishjuggler
Seriously, Ted? How did that work out for us when previous runners-up Dole, McCain and Romney were given “their turn”?

Don’t forget Mrs. Clinton! Cruz would counter with Bush the Elder and Ronaldus Magnus. But you are right, except for Reagan and the fraud Biden, the guys who win the whole thing are newbies: Trump, Obama, Bush the Younger, Clinton, even Jimmy Carter.
29 posted on 12/23/2021 3:08:24 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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Cruz could be good but you would prefer to have a nominee that you knew would be good rather than waiting to see what you actually get. As a Canadian myself I don’t think the Canadian connection is that big a deal breaker because Ted Cruz seems to have imported very little liberal Canadian attitude and as I understand it he was only there briefly as a kid so the carryover might be minimal. I would be more concerned with faint centrist tendencies that might make him less likely to take principled stands that are going to be required.

Perhaps the real answer, if Trump says he doesn’t want to run, and de Santis likewise, would be to have a “Freedom Party” convention and pick a candidate from all willing individuals based on a job selection principle rather than these tedious candidate debates which really reveal very little about how people might serve in office. You need to find somebody who is capable and committed to basic principles that won’t be modified to suit the media or the political establishment after election.

I would agree that Ted Cruz might best serve as AG in that person’s administration. But at the same time, obviously Ted Cruz would be a far better president than the illegal one now serving, so if it became a choice between Ted Cruz and let’s say Kamala Harris or AOC or HRC or any other nut case they can find, then obviously Ted Cruz.

Also, I don’t see where Ron Paul has any real chance to take a national party’s nomination, he would need to run as a Libertarian and take his chances, probably might increase the Libertarian vote slightly to around 6-8 per cent. That would not help anyone in America though.


30 posted on 12/23/2021 3:11:03 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (a cloud has fallen over the lands of the free )
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To: conservative98

The chemistry!


31 posted on 12/23/2021 3:11:38 PM PST by silent_jonny (Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin, Joe. The feet are at the door (Acts 5:9) 9-18-21)
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To: conservative98

Cruz would squashed by Trump or DeSantis.


32 posted on 12/23/2021 3:12:20 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Yep, The Hill.

Always our best interests at heart.


33 posted on 12/23/2021 3:19:14 PM PST by skeeter
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To: JoSixChip

DeSantis is very good for Florida, and we Floridians want to keep him here. Find your own national candidate.


34 posted on 12/23/2021 3:19:16 PM PST by entropy12 (President Trump was the best president in my life time of 81 years and counting..)
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To: Peter ODonnell

Why do you insist on posting a logical and sensible post instead of knee-jerk 1 liners?


35 posted on 12/23/2021 3:20:55 PM PST by entropy12 (President Trump was the best president in my life time of 81 years and counting..)
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To: conservative98

Dream on lyin ted, dream on.


36 posted on 12/23/2021 3:22:29 PM PST by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP))
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To: conservative98

Historically, Senators rarely be come President. Biden being one of the exceptions. After one year of Biden, one can see why history is correct.


37 posted on 12/23/2021 3:22:44 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: conservative98

If he wins and doesn’t shave off his beard, he will be the first president with a beard since Benjamin Harrison.


38 posted on 12/23/2021 3:23:13 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: conservative98
I like his politics but he should NOT be the nominee in 2024.

1. There are maybe 4-5 states Trump won in 2016 that Cruz will never win under any circumstances.

2. That stunt he pulled in 2016 where he selected Carly Fiorina as his “running mate” was such a farce and a calculated act of political desperation that he’ll have a hard time getting any credibility as a serious candidate in 2024.

39 posted on 12/23/2021 3:23:37 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("All lies and jest; still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.")
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To: conservative98

No


40 posted on 12/23/2021 3:24:54 PM PST by Kickaha (See the glory...of the royal scam )
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