Yes. I expect a 10% margin. Last week's Fox poll had Cruz up 4%. Today's NBC/Marist Poll also has him up 4%. They are in keeping with the trend.
Trump's birther attack has flopped.
Cruz will clean up at the debate. Trump will be... Trump.
Posted on 01/11/2016 6:08:17 AM PST by justlittleoleme
Actual Title shortened to fit: If Trump is Mentioning Cruz's Canadian Birth Again Then He Must Know He's Going to Lose Big in Iowa
I am amused that Donald Trump is once again reminding voters that Ted Cruz was born in Canada.
Before speaking at a rally on Monday night in Lowell, Massachusetts, Trump stated, "Republicans are going to have to ask themselves the question: 'Do we want a candidate who could be tied up in court for two years?' That'd be a big problem."
Yet it was only four months ago just as the two were to appear together at a rally on Capitol Hill opposing the Iran nuclear deal when Trump told reporters, "I hear it was checked out by every attorney and every which way and I understand Ted is in fine shape."
There are two ways to explain his statement. First, Trump didn't mean a word of it, but wasn't willing to insult Cruz to his face before the rally. Second, it must be remembered that at the time Trump was leading Cruz in Iowa by a 3-1 margin. Last September, Cruz was polling at 9% in Iowa.
Needless to say things have changed. It's been awhile since a poll has come out of Iowa, but I'm Trump's people are doing their own internal polling and he's probably doing very badly. Trump is afraid of being embarrassed by Cruz in Iowa. Why else would he suddenly now give a damn about Cruz being born in Canada when he wasn't 4 months ago?
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Goldstein and Ted have something in common—both were born in Canada.
so by your response I gather that you dont think Trump is the best guy to handle abortion and homosexual fag marriage?
I was referring to the statement he made during a private meeting with donors about how he did not trust Trump handling nuclear weapons. I noticed that all the Cruz supporters claimed they did not see anything at all like that in his statement. However, during the debate, Cruz was asked about it by the lady in the same exact terms I just mentioned. Cruz immediately and generously enlarged the doubt to include everyone on state. Of course, in the original, he only included Trump and Carson, his main two opponents.
He also implied/said that Trump wanted to send “jackboots” to every home in the United States in search of illegals.
I, of course, don’t follow every word that Cruz says. There are probably more.
As for the eligibility controversy, that horse left the barn before Trump ever declared his candidacy. Obviously, if Cruz had the paperwork to end it, the paperwork would have been released. I say that based on what others have said on the site with the same circumstance.
No, you gathered wrong.
Trump is the best guy to handle the larger problems with economy and national security, that is where you start. Without it, views against abortion or gay marriage don’t matter any.
My point is that it’s foolish for ANYONE to dismiss a candidate just b/c they may not put abortion or gay marriage at the forefront.
Thanks. I appreciate your replying without calling me an idiot.
However, I must dispute with you a little. Private meetings with donors are not in the same ballpark as daily public declarations at rallies and on TV interviews.
Also, I don’t understand the statement that Cruz ‘implied’ that Trump wanted to send jackboots, etc. What did he say? Again, not in the same ballpark with what Cruz is doing.
I don’t blame either man... they are both running for President.
But if you take whiskey before retiring, why call it Thucydides?
It is foolish for either candidate to make the gay marriage issue prominent in his campaign.
It’s just not a big issue to the public right now and distracting to what we really care about.
Cruz would address it eventually as a states rights, constitutional issue but we’ve got enemies without and within far more dangerous than this.
Yes. I expect a 10% margin. Last week's Fox poll had Cruz up 4%. Today's NBC/Marist Poll also has him up 4%. They are in keeping with the trend.
Trump's birther attack has flopped.
Cruz will clean up at the debate. Trump will be... Trump.
“Cruz, who is leading Trump in a tough race for primacy in next month’s Iowa GOP caucuses, abruptly softened his stand on mass deportation on Sunday, saying that he would not deploy a task force of immigration authorities and police that goes “door-to-door” to locate and deport those in the country illegally.
“No, I don’t intend to send jack boots to knock on your door and every door in America, that’s not the way we enforce the law for any crime” Cruz said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” program.”
Trump is the only one who has said he would follow Eisenhower’s example (successful) of using a task force for deportation of illegals.
“Thanks. I appreciate your replying without calling me an idiot.”
That made me laugh. Sometimes clicking on a post alert amounts to what I still have to do at times, carefully raise up a board/log to see what is beneath it. It is usually nothing, but a snake often enough to keep me wary.
JULY 1987: Trump registers for the first time from his Fifth Avenue penthouse. The real estate developer, 41 at the time, reports having previously been registered from his boyhood home in Queens (though his prior party affiliation is unclear). Trump enrolls as a REPUBLICAN
Politifact says: “We don’t need to go back as far as 1987 for this check, of course, but it shows Trump has switched quite a bit. After 12 years as a Republican, he registered with the Independence Party in 1999. That moved Trump to New York’s version of the Reform Party, which is neither Democratic nor Republican. He even won the Reform Party’s California primary for president in March 2000, despite withdrawing from that contest.
Bush’s campaign told us that “the last decade” meant when Trump was registered from 2000 to 2010. Trump was registered as a Democrat for 8 years, 1 month in that time span.
But we think a reasonable person could mistake “the last decade” to mean the last 10 years. When we added up the years since 2005, we found Trump has been registered as a Democrat for 3 years, 9 months, and registered as Republican for 5 years, 6 months (and counting).”
Trump or Cruz. I like both. I understand that they have to fight each other and for those so emotionally invested it is uncomfortable. They will have to fight the Dems and Republicans so this is good practice.
“Personally, I think Trump is doing Cruz a favor by getting the issue dealt with NOW rather than later.”
That’s the most transparently false excuse the Trumpoids have trotted out. It’s obvious Trump is trying to erode Cruz’ support by persistently raising the issue. No other reason makes any sense whatsoever.
You're correct, of course. But I gotta think that's not the point.
No, I think Trump is aiming mainly to catch the attention of the low-info voters, most of whom know nothing about the location of Cruz's birth.
So, now those voters will be wondering why in the world they should even think about voting for a guy born in Canada. And many of them won't vote for him.
Call it brilliant politics, call it cynical, call it dirty innuendo or whatever. But I believe Trump knows exactly what he is doing.
Which is exactly what Trump is doing. He knows he doesn’t have much room to attack Cruz policy-wise, or he’ll alienate his own support. So he has to attack Cruz on something more personal.
‘Going after Cruz makes Trump look nasty. This is the kind of thing Obama and the Clintons do.’
Trump is demonstrating what the Democrats will do. Yes, in this case he certainly is acting like a Democrat. That is precisely his point.
I don’t think it is a direct attack, he is simply pointing out a problem Cruz has to lock up early and often.
I like both candidates. But both have weaknesses.
It’s a shame Trump doesn’t have the conservative conscience and constitutional knowledge that Cruz has.
It’s a shame that Cruz doesn’t have the ability to communicate his stances as Trump can.
I think what Ted lacks is what Trump has in spades.
Ted can eloquently articulate his points with a sharp nuance.
Donald lays it out in plain English.
This means that Cruz reaches those with an intellectual bent of the Constitutionalism.
A person with a large vocabulary and a sophisticated lexicon can only reach those that of the same or greater level.
A person who speaks at a sixth grade level can reach nearly everyone.
The Donald knows this, and uses it. He is the master of the Tweet, and that is precisely why.
This does not mean Trump can not articulate in an eloquent manner, he simply chooses not to.
That’s why he is winning.
“Most interesting tab is Trump at 50% support among blacks!!!”
So 1 of the 2 black people that lives in Iowa supports him. Great news for Trump!
I don’t think Trump is being negative. Cruz has an issue and it is up to Cruz to settle it now before it becomes an epic issue should he get the nomination. Personally, I am glad this has come up...this “natural born” vs. “native born” issues has been bothering me and simmering for a long time, beginning with that fraud Obummer, and if this campaign forces it to the forefront and to a legal, binding decision finally, all this hoo haw has been worth it. My thoughts, hopefully, are that Trump and Cruz are in cahoots about resolving this issue and maybe it was part of their private meeting early in the campaign.
“Personally, I think Trump is doing Cruz a favor by getting the issue dealt with NOW rather than later.”
So do I but I wish Cruz had gotten this issue settled a long time ago.
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