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Cruz caught on tape with donors strategy "bear hug and smother with love" Trump waiting for collapse
NYTimes ^

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: springwater13

But you are a trolling activist....


81 posted on 12/11/2015 12:23:43 AM PST by caww
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To: Chgogal
Trump grows on you. And it helps that he is a natural leader. But Cruz is a better debater.

I think you nailed it. Trump is a people person. He connects. Cruz, not so much. I would certainly rather have two Senator Cruz's from Texas, than rino Cornyn. Cornyn is in till 2020. Ugh.

82 posted on 12/11/2015 12:34:59 AM PST by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: 21twelve

It is 4:30am CST. I just went back through all my posts to see when I moved from Cruz to Trump. I am going to be so sleepy today. I see DT started winning me over after the first debate.

I guess it started with Meghan Kelly being smarmy, and pretty quickly from there I went all in, so DT won me over sooner than I thought.
Next time I will just take your word for my “timeline”.
ZZZzzzzzzzzzz.


83 posted on 12/11/2015 2:40:58 AM PST by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: springwater13

I don’t see any thing in there as really negative...Cruz is after all an opponent...I think Cruz is wrong about Trump...But Cruz has to sell himself first to his donors...And that’s what he’s doing...


84 posted on 12/11/2015 4:21:57 AM PST by Iscool (Izlam and radical Izlam are different the same way a wolf and a wolf in sheeps clothing are differen)
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To: demshateGod

Rand Paul is pretty good too, as is James Inhofe


85 posted on 12/11/2015 5:05:53 AM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto Von Bismarck)
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To: meatloaf; springwater13
Nice try.

Disagree.

Horrible try.

86 posted on 12/11/2015 5:07:27 AM PST by Lazamataz (It has gotten to the point where any report from standard news outlets must be fact-checked.)
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To: Iscool

If you read Trump’s books, the most likely scenario is that Trump will respect this sort of move by Cruz.


87 posted on 12/11/2015 5:10:23 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: Iscool

Also, it wouldn’t surprise me if Cruz either leaked, or had a hand in leaking, this video himself.

Doing so gives him a great deal of freedom of political movement. The most people can accuse him of is playing politics. Which is shocking when done by a guy running for, you know, President.


88 posted on 12/11/2015 5:14:26 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: sockmonkey

I was thinking Cruz or Paul and then Trump jumped in big with Enforce the law. Build the wall. Been Trump ever since. Cruz is running lots ads here in Texas which tells you he might not even carry his home state of Texas. I have yet to heard one Trump ad but just about everyone I know is voting Trump in March.


89 posted on 12/11/2015 5:17:11 AM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto Von Bismarck)
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To: jpsb

I’m from Ok. Inhofe sucks.


90 posted on 12/11/2015 5:55:19 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God)
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To: demshateGod

Ooops. I know he is good on Global Warming so I figured he was good on other issues too. My bad.


91 posted on 12/11/2015 6:01:59 AM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto Von Bismarck)
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To: 2nd Amendment; 2ndDivisionVet; alstewartfan; altura; azkathy; aposiopetic; AUTiger83; arderkrag; ...
TC FR photo Ted-Cruz-Ping-Donate_FR.jpg
92 posted on 12/11/2015 6:07:13 AM PST by erod (Chicago Conservative | Cruz or Lose!)
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To: springwater13

This is like when they “caught” Gingrich conspiring with other Republicans to OBEY THE LAW

(by illegally listening-in to cell phone broadcasts)


93 posted on 12/11/2015 6:25:55 AM PST by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: jpsb

He talks a good talk. When it’s time for a tough vote, he votes with Mitch.


94 posted on 12/11/2015 6:28:47 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God)
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To: lewislynn

Funny stuff.

Trump did his Muslim riff this week after Cruz and Paul introduced a bill suspending Muslims from terrorist infested locations from entering the country.

It also happened to be the day that the poll came out showing Cruz leading Iowa by 5%. WHich could alter the race dynamics. Trump blew that headline out of the water, great tactics by Trump.

Why would Cruz even be in the race if he didn’t have a strategy to win? Cruz seems to have read and understand Sun Tzu, you don’t approach each opponent the same way to win.

Trump seems to only know the bull in a china shop approach. It is currently serving him well.


95 posted on 12/11/2015 7:35:31 AM PST by Leto
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To: Jukeman

You Trumpees must really be afraid of Cruz.
...........................................

I’m a big fan of Cruz (but want Trump as the headliner) that’s why I’m disappointed when I hear him say something I’d expect to hear from a simpleton such as ‘do you want this person in control of the button?’. That narrative was started earlier in the campaign by the other losers in the party. And it will be used in the general if Trump wins.

...and fwiw, the ignorant ‘Trumpee’ line. Very lame.


96 posted on 12/11/2015 7:52:17 AM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: springwater13

Another example of the establishment trying to start a fight between Trump and Cruz supporters.

Do not take the bait!


97 posted on 12/11/2015 7:59:00 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
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To: Pajamajan

Hogwash. There was nothing at all racist about what I said. I never thought I’d see race-baiting on Free Republic.


98 posted on 12/11/2015 8:54:12 AM PST by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: DoughtyOne

Oh, Doughty, I need to be more careful, if you thought I was offended by ANYTHING you said on this thread. That is the second time that I included two recipients in a comment and have shot myself in the foot.

I knew you got my point. I shouldn’t have addressed the other thread posters in my comment to you.

I was pointing to posters bashing springwater because he was a newbie and contributing nothing else to the topic of the thread, but name calling him, just hitting springwater and leaving the substance of the little audio out of the conversation.

I really should not have combined the two different subjects in one post.. Sorry about that. I did that yesterday and one recipient thought I was scolding them.

My bad, not yours. Thanks for all your cutting edge contributions to political thought around here. And, ((hugs)) besides!


99 posted on 12/11/2015 9:10:04 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: DoughtyOne
It’s silly really, but I don’t like to hear Cruz use that line too.

Cruz is running for president, of course he thinks that Trump will eventually lose. What is hilarious is all of the Trump supporters that are trying to make this look like some underhanded attack by Cruz on Trump. Trump and his supporters seem to think that anyone that doesn't believe Trump will win is attacking him by saying so...

100 posted on 12/11/2015 9:16:43 AM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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