Steve Deace is carrying Cruz’s water in Iowa so I’d expect a rosy scenario here. And suspiciously, I just read the same drivel on Red State comparing Trump to Howard Dean which seems to be the new mantra of the establishment. Isn’t that something that Mr. Conservative Steve Deace is spouting the same exact words as Leon Wolf, a known establishment Trump hater at Red State? It’s not possible that Cruz and Deace are really part of the establishment is it?
I think Trumps funding and praising of the Clintons shows him to be the one who is part of the establishment. He did change, though. He did it to fool people.
All of these-—pro-Cruz and pro-Trump-—pieces on IA miss the crucial delegate count, which is that the winner will get 10-15, the loser will get 8-10, and the others will get a couple. So all these articles are focused only on the “metaphysical” and symbolic “what if,” namely what if Cruz wins. . . will it dent Trump’s “inevitability”? Of course, that only works IF Trump has a fragile ego who would be shocked and crushed by a Cruz victory in IA. It doesn’t work if Trump is, in fact, in it for the long haul and reels off 4-5 successive victories.
Yes, I suppose it’s possible that Cruz is GOPe...and that all those GOPe guys who hate him are actually his best friends. Of course it’s also POSSIBLE that Hillary Clinton didn’t know it was illegal to transmit classified information on unsecured emails.
Possible, but highly improbable.
Steve Deace, as annoying as he is, has the actual facts right in this case, even if not the conclusions.
Cruz has a formidable ground game and has always had under-reported support in Iowa. Trump is close behind, but with even more enthusiastic casual support. Carson also has always had under-reported support.
Neither Jeb! nor Rubio have a ground game, and aren’t favorites of the Iowa GOP establishment. And that Iowa GOP establishment would like to resurrect Christie.