Posted on 09/08/2015 6:08:43 PM PDT by VinL
As other Republican presidential candidates go after Donald Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is getting cozy with him. The two men are in a so-far cordial competition for many of the same anti-establishment conservatives, and they're about to share a stage.
One of 16 GOP candidates looking up at Trump in the polls, Cruz says the invitation was only to attract more attention to objections to the "catastrophic" deal...
"Wherever Donald goes, the media follow in droves." Any suggestion that the joint appearance has deeper meaning would be a "political horse game," he said.
Yet Cruz, the tea party hero who helped shut the federal government in 2013, needs the same frustrated voters who have pushed Trump to a surprising lead five months before primary voting begins. If it takes a shared stage to convince those conservatives that he should be their choice, so be it....
"An awful lot of presidential candidates," Cruz said, "have gone out of their way to take a stick to Donald Trump."
"I am not one of them."
Instead, he credits Trump with "shining a light" on an immigration crisis and getting conservatives excited.
"Look, I like Donald Trump, and I am glad Donald Trump is in this election," he said at a recent stop in South Carolina.
Yet he said, "There will come a time as this campaign goes forward for additional policy differences and differentiation." And his standard campaign pitch — which he has not changed through Trump's rise —
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Unless something very unforeseen occurs, Trump will not be going down.
OTOH, Cruz isn't moving the needle significantly. By year's end if Trump is still on top, Cruz should make a deal (if he hasn't already). We need both of them.
This is not a normal season
I think unforeseen is over the entire agenda
You read my mind, FRiend.
Has Bill Barrow ever written an article about how 97% of the media bury their noses up the backside of Hussein?
No he didn't.
Sheesh.
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