With 50 million dollars, (probably a third of what he needs to be competitive,) Cruz’s goal must be to catch fire before Florida, AND WIN PRIMARIES. If he can’t, he should drop out and endorse the highest-polling conservative. “Hanging in there” without winning primaries, on a shoe-string budget, waiting for others to drop out... NOT a winning strategy.
Santorum-Gingrich-Paul- divided the conservative vote in 2012, if two had dropped out and endorsed the third, Mitt would not have won.
If a candidate doesn’t have the money, (up front like BUSH) hit hard, win early, gain momentum, get more money- AN UPWARDS SPIRAL.
KNOCK JEB OUT OF THE RACE or QUIT. No more moderates!
“With 50 million dollars, (probably a third of what he needs to be competitive,) Cruz’s goal must be to catch fire before Florida, AND WIN PRIMARIES. If he can’t, he should drop out and endorse the highest-polling conservative.”
Florida is not nearly as big a factor this time around given the schedule (as it stands now):
February
Monday, February 1: Iowa caucuses
Tuesday, February 9: New Hampshire
Saturday, February 20: South Carolina
Tuesday February 23: Nevada caucuses
March
Tuesday, March 1: Arkansas,[56] Colorado caucuses (pending legislation exists however);[57] Massachusetts; Oklahoma; Tennessee; Texas; Vermont; Virginia; North Carolina
Saturday, March 5: Louisiana
Tuesday, March 8: Alabama; Hawaii caucuses; Idaho;[58] Mississippi; Michigan
Sunday, March 13: Puerto Rico (the last contest in 2016 required to be proportional.[59])
Tuesday, March 15: Illinois; Missouri; Florida; Ohio[60]
There are LOTS of primaries before Florida, including Texas, which he should win. You are right though, if he hasn’t notched at least a win or two by the time they get to Florida on March 15, he will have a real uphill climb.
Cruz’s goal must be to catch fire before Florida, AND WIN PRIMARIES. If he can’t, he should drop out and endorse the highest-polling conservative.
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Well, I would hope that would be Rand Paul if it comes to that. There’s some things about him that I don’t like, but, now he is leading the charge to defund the “Baby-Body Parts” Store, Planned Parenthood. That, in itself, covered a multitude of his sins for me. He is now my Second Choice.
Completely disagree as does the Cruz team.
Cruz will run strong in SC and IA. He will do VERY well in Florida. But, he has the money to go further than that...
If he doesn’t win any of these, by that time, the field will have narrowed. Cruz will win much of the south and TX. He will win much of the West and possibly CA. He has campaigned in the Northeast.
He is laying the groundwork to go beyond the first 3...he will do just that.