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Trump, GOP leaders realizing they may need each other to eliminate Cruz
The Seattle Times ^ | January 22, 2016 | Jill Colvin, Julie Pace and Steve Peoples, The Associated Press

Posted on 01/22/2016 3:27:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Donald Trump and some mainstream Republicans are engaged in a long-distance flirtation. Both sides are coming to the realization that they'll need each other if the billionaire businessman becomes the party's presidential nominee.

The GOP establishment is no fonder of Trump than when he first roiled the campaign last summer with his controversial comments about immigrants and women. But with voting beginning in just over a week, his durability atop preference polls has pushed some donors, strategists and party elders to grudgingly accept the prospect of his winning the nomination.

"We'd better stop hoping for something else and accept the possibility that he's our nominee and be prepared to rally around him if that's the case," said Fred Malek, a top Republican presidential fundraiser....

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; Polls
KEYWORDS: cruz; republicans; tedcruz; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, they really need to eliminate Cruz. LOL. After today, I think he’s pretty well eliminated. Trump closing in on 60 in Reuters.


21 posted on 01/22/2016 3:46:57 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: over3Owithabrain

The GOPe is still holding out hope that Bush will be the nominee.

So freaking sad.


22 posted on 01/22/2016 3:47:09 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (The Trump/Cruz war is a media generated war so the establishment can stay in power.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump don’t need no stinkin’ Republican Establishment to defeat Cruz.


23 posted on 01/22/2016 3:47:59 PM PST by map
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To: over3Owithabrain

If you have problems with big banks or gays, Trump is in hock to every bank in the city. Not much doubt that he is socially more liberals than Cruz.


24 posted on 01/22/2016 3:48:20 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
He's just the tool they're using to take down Cruz.


25 posted on 01/22/2016 3:48:52 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: map

He needs to win the Iowa caucus, though.


26 posted on 01/22/2016 3:50:04 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: cripplecreek

They may have waited too long for that. Whatever one thinks of Trump it has to be acknowledged that he is a good candidate.


27 posted on 01/22/2016 3:51:46 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Those pics of Trumps with liberals were done when he was a private citizen.

Why don't you post some pics of Boehner and other various Republican establishment hacks having cocktails with leftists and not doing a damn thing about leftist policies for the past 55 years.

28 posted on 01/22/2016 3:55:55 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: LS

I remember a year ago when most people here would’ve disregarded anything from Reuters. What happened?


29 posted on 01/22/2016 3:56:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: over3Owithabrain
Cruz helped Big Bank and Big Gay in New York

Really? Pray tell, how did he help them? What exactly did he do for them?

30 posted on 01/22/2016 3:56:50 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Is John Boehner running for the presidency?


31 posted on 01/22/2016 3:58:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: TigerClaws

SO well said!


32 posted on 01/22/2016 3:58:19 PM PST by KGeorge
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They need each other to beat Hillary/Sanders. It has nothing to do with Cruz.

There is no way Cruz closes the gap by Iowa. So Cruz will lose Iowa then he will get beat horribly in N.H. and Trump will run the board from there. Cruz won’t win a single state.

But Trump doesn’t need the GOPe attacking him during the general election.


33 posted on 01/22/2016 3:59:42 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They need each other to beat Hillary/Sanders. It has nothing to do with Cruz.

There is no way Cruz closes the gap by Iowa. So Cruz will lose Iowa then he will get beat horribly in N.H. and Trump will run the board from there. Cruz won’t win a single state.

But Trump doesn’t need the GOPe attacking him during the general election.


34 posted on 01/22/2016 3:59:42 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

I’m lived in Iowa half my life. That ain’t what I’m hearing.


35 posted on 01/22/2016 4:01:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

In 2014, Raphael Cruz joined the NRSC at the behest of Mitch McConnell.

During the flat out fraud and betrayal by the NRSC to save their GOP-E Senator vs Chris McDaniels in Mississippi, Raphael Cruz remained silent.

IMO, that demonstrates Raphael’s true GOP-Establishment heart and may have been the final straw that caused Sarah Palin to endorse Trump.

Not surprising, Raphael Cruz continues to align himself with Glenn Beck, the amnesty lovin’ kook and shamster.


36 posted on 01/22/2016 4:02:39 PM PST by newfreep (TRUMP & <S>Cruz</S> 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: RobbyS

So Big Corn is GOP leaders?


37 posted on 01/22/2016 4:04:52 PM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I think Jeb might be auditioning for Dog in the Manger. If he can’t have it, he’s not gonna let Rubio have it either.


38 posted on 01/22/2016 4:05:28 PM PST by firebrand
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You’re missing my point. Trump was never in a position in government where he constantly compromised, joined Gangs of 8s, and worked with Democrats to pass leftist legislation. That is why all the pics and past statements of Trump are falling on deaf ears. So it’s funny how the GOPe is suddenly concerned about electing a “moderate” for POTUS, when for decades these same moderate Republicans assisted DemoRats in the ongoing destruction of America while snookering conservatives every election cycle.


39 posted on 01/22/2016 4:05:40 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“when he was a private citizen”

When did he stop being a private citizen?


40 posted on 01/22/2016 4:09:55 PM PST by Boogieman
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