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Cruz caught on tape with donors strategy "bear hug and smother with love" Trump waiting for collapse
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Posted on 12/10/2015 7:41:30 PM PST by springwater13

The audio is at the link. The comments about Trump and Carson start at 2:00

(Excerpt) Read more at graphics8.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bencarson; canadian; election2016; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; tedcruz; texas; trump
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To: cornfedcowboy

I agree.


61 posted on 12/10/2015 10:07:43 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: RitaOK; springwater13

I would agree with that. Didn’t mean to infer you were doing something wrong by bringing that audio clip to our attention SpringWater13. The onus is on the guy that made the recording.

There are times when taht m2t thing is really pronounced.

Thank you for the comments.


62 posted on 12/10/2015 10:11:31 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: springwater13

This is unnecessarily stirring up trouble.


63 posted on 12/10/2015 10:13:08 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: DoughtyOne

Thank you. :-)


64 posted on 12/10/2015 10:51:12 PM PST by nopardons
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

You wouldn’t say that if it was about Trump.


65 posted on 12/10/2015 10:52:12 PM PST by nopardons
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To: RitaOK
Suits med just fine too and he IS going to win!

There was a black female "pundit" on FNC tonight, who said that her mother, a life long DEM is going to vote for Trump come hell or high water and NOTHING and NOBODY is going to change her mind.

Trump supporters are all in and aren't going to be stopped. Also, they convince others that he he is the one to vote for; it's a chain reaction. These aren't people on the net, they aren't political junkies; they won't be siphoned off !

If the idiot GOPEs try to NOT give him the nomination, when he has won it/some slimy trickery/"brokered convention", then all hell shall break out.

66 posted on 12/10/2015 10:58:21 PM PST by nopardons
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To: ground_fog

> He has to say that..what else is he going to say because that’s his only hope.

That’s exactly how I viewed it. What else can you say when the poll numbers are so lop sided? Perhaps things will turn out that way.


67 posted on 12/10/2015 10:58:26 PM PST by glorgau
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To: SteveSCH

No way can Cruz “swoop in and steal” Trump’s supporters; NO WAY at all!


68 posted on 12/10/2015 11:00:03 PM PST by nopardons
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To: be-baw
If you want to criticize Cruz over this giant Nothing-Burger fine.

What you posted is a racist , personal attack on a good man... and no, I'm not joking.

Take your low life trolling elsewhere jerk.

69 posted on 12/10/2015 11:00:57 PM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: cornfedcowboy
Certainly nothing controversial in his comments.

Nothing controversial, sure. But, definitely a sense of "here we go again" with a candidate prognosticating Trump's slump in the polling. It could certainly happen, but there is no reason to think it is going to happen anytime soon.

70 posted on 12/10/2015 11:04:14 PM PST by orangeTank
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To: Chauncey Uppercrust

There is nothing in the message to hang a hat on as far as any great negativity.


71 posted on 12/10/2015 11:05:44 PM PST by Jukeman (God help us for we are deeper in trouble.)
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To: bramps

You Trumpees must really be afraid of Cruz.


72 posted on 12/10/2015 11:07:21 PM PST by Jukeman (God help us for we are deeper in trouble.)
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To: ifinnegan

Oh Yeah, that Cruz has just gone way to far. Good Grief.


73 posted on 12/10/2015 11:09:33 PM PST by Jukeman (God help us for we are deeper in trouble.)
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To: RitaOK

I’m still waiting for Trump to say something of substance even though I do appreciate that he does bring some issues to the surface. But, having been around for presidential campaigns since the Eisenhower era, I have to say that Ted Cruz is the only man in this race that I trust both ethically and intellectually. I trust the man. Not so sure about Trump. Trump is a late comer to the battle against those doing harm to our nation. Only two men in the last 60 years could have come close to matching the strength of character and constitutional knowledge of Ted Cruz and neither one of the could match the overall presidential abilities of Ted Cruz: Goldwater and Reagan.


74 posted on 12/10/2015 11:22:49 PM PST by Jukeman (God help us for we are deeper in trouble.)
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To: Jukeman

Former Cruzer here. Have switched to Trump.

I thought Cruz sounded smarmy and oily. I think that hurts him more with women voters than men.


75 posted on 12/10/2015 11:27:32 PM PST by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Trump is about to succumb to gravity?

Maybe Cruz’s political super PAC decided to funnel $500,000 to Fiorina’s super PAC to stabilize her gravity and keep her from getting sucked off the stage.


76 posted on 12/10/2015 11:38:24 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: sockmonkey

“Former Cruzer here. Have switched to Trump.”

I recall you saying that on another thread. Thinking maybe it’s a “concern troll” thing. Your posts back to July are pro Trump. He announced his run mid June. I’m guessing you were pro Cruz until Trump started his run?


77 posted on 12/10/2015 11:44:05 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: springwater13

The “Caught” in the headline is needlessly and provokingly sensational.


78 posted on 12/10/2015 11:56:22 PM PST by Calpublican (Ryan = Boehner minus spray tan and alcohol dementia)
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To: 21twelve

I didn’t think I ditched Cruz until September. It was gradual.I thought Trump was an obnoxious bigmouth, but when I could actually listen to what he was saying, he grew on me.

Good grief, sounds like breaking up with some guy...anyway, it’s over now between Ted and me. Tonight, when his campaign headquarters called, 832-915-2340, I didn’t even answer the phone.

I know of some other Texans on FR who have switched from Cruz to Trump. I’m not the only one.


79 posted on 12/11/2015 12:16:29 AM PST by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: sockmonkey
It was gradual.I thought Trump was an obnoxious bigmouth, but when I could actually listen to what he was saying, he grew on me.

Yeah, Trump grows on you. And it helps that he is a natural leader. But Cruz is a better debater.

80 posted on 12/11/2015 12:20:18 AM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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