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What a Trump-Cruz Alliance Could Mean for the GOP Race
Slate ^ | July 15, 2015 | Josh Voorhees

Posted on 07/15/2015 11:24:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are set to huddle in private in New York City on Wednesday, but Trump claims that he’s not sure why he even agreed to the meeting. “I don’t know why I’m meeting him, to be honest, but I do have respect for him,” the real estate mogul said of his fellow White House hopeful during an MSNBC interview Wednesday. “I respect the fact that … he came out and he came out very strongly and agreed with what I said on illegal immigration. And he came out very strongly and he came out early, and I respect that. I like him.”

The face-to-face meeting at Trump Tower has prompted plenty of interest among campaign watchers, largely because any and everything Trump-related is currently prompting plenty of interest. Still, an informal Trump-Cruz alliance would not be something to snicker at. Despite Trump’s suggestion otherwise, both men have their own clear reasons to sit down with one another—and the simple possibility of a loose partnership between the two will only add to the GOP establishment’s Trump-related heartburn.

Already, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has pleaded with the once-and-future TV reality star to tone down his inflammatory rhetoric on immigration. Cruz, though, is likely to stoke Trump’s fire. While most of the crowded GOP field has run as fast and as far as they can away from Trump’s comments painting Mexican immigrants as rapists and murderers, the Texas senator has defended Trump at every turn....

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TOPICS: New York; Texas; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bush; cruz; election2016; illegalimmigration; immigration; joshvoorhees; newyork; rubio; slate; tedcruz; texas; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Shrewd of Sen. Cruz. If the Donald is sucking up all the media coverage overshadowing all other candidates, then go to where the spotlight is shining and steal the show. Only Ted Cruz can out-troll Trump. ;)


21 posted on 07/16/2015 9:51:02 AM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: iontheball

Cruz is playing 3D chess.
Trump is playing checkers.
The media is playing tic-tac-toe.

“Using” is too simple of a term for what Cruz is doing with Trump. More like mental JuJitsu.


22 posted on 07/16/2015 9:56:52 AM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: jsanders2001

And all the little whining GOP girly men will run into the arnms of thier sugar daddy rats they love so much


23 posted on 07/18/2015 4:17:09 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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