I appreciate you, Jedi, and always have, but Cruz will not be winning the Republican nomination.
You may disagree with me, but the Evangelical religious right has shrunk, in the Republican Party. I think we all see that traditionally, after Iowa, they seldom are heard from again.
Liberal Catholics will not support Cruz. Many evangelicals are still with TRUMP even, in Iowa.
While the R Party is home to evangelicals, the party as a whole is not evangelical and not especially conservative but for maybe fiscal and economic issues. (And even on this they are wobbly, having gone globalist.)
I don’t know where the votes would ever hope to come from for a strictly religious and dogmatic conservative candidate, in this era.
Trump passes the threshold test, thanks be to GOD, on life issues and then moves his campaign onto national security, border security and illegal immigration.
The liberal Catholic voter loves open borders and so does the USCCB.
He’s pointing to data as recent as 2004 that shows Republican presidents win when they win the Catholic vote, among other groups. No one’s saying they win liberal Catholics, just over 50% of all Catholics (conservatives and moderates I suppose, or single-issue abortion voters who could be liberal everywhere else).
This isn’t about saying the whole party is Catholic or evangelical. It’s saying they’re an important part of the coalition. And if you put up a candidate who isn’t convincingly pro-life then you might lose just enough of them to lose the election. Steve Deace is an evangelical Christian himself so he speaks with credibility on the issue.
Cruz has no problem winning the general election and getting all the support he needs. If Reagan and Bush can win, Cruz can win. He’s a similar figure to both of them in his positions and presentation.