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GOP Debate Winner: Ted Cruz
Legal Insurrection ^ | 1/14/16 | William A. Jacobson

Posted on 01/14/2016 8:26:07 PM PST by libbylu

Tonight’s GOP debate was Ted Cruz’s night. He went right after Donald Trump multiple times, but in a way that came across as forceful and informed, but not nasty. He also fended off a pretty vigorous attack from Marco Rubio. His strongest points came early and against Trump, when the audience would be the largest.

Trump was runner-up. He had a good moment on Cruz’s slam on “NY Values,” but I’m not sure how defending NY values plays outside NY. His performance will confirm pre-existing views of him.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; alsoranteddy; cruz; cruz4dogcatcher; election2016; legalinsurrection; newyork; tedcruz; texas; trump; williamajacobson
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To: Slyfox

Trump shut that speculation down entirely tonight by saying “if I picked him for VP, I would have law suits”.

Actually I am glad he did it.

That trump/cruz stuff was making me sick.


101 posted on 01/14/2016 9:00:35 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: libbylu
The voters say otherwise.

**DRUDGE POLL** WHO WON THE 6TH REPUBLICAN DEBATE '16?

BUSH
1%
2,124 votes

CARSON
1%
2,035 votes

CHRISTIE
2%
2,729 votes

CRUZ
30%
42,812 votes

KASICH
2%
2,267 votes

RUBIO
7%
9,677 votes

TRUMP
57%
81,437 votes

143,081 Total Votes

102 posted on 01/14/2016 9:01:57 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: altura

“:^)

No problem Altura. Have a good night. I’m about to hit the hay.


103 posted on 01/14/2016 9:02:04 PM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: kevao
Cruz's bills did not pass in the Senate because he is incapable or because of the makeup of the Senate?

He did manage to get TPA through.
104 posted on 01/14/2016 9:02:13 PM PST by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs))
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To: BAW

Ted did not have his best night. Trump has improved his debate skills exponentially. Getting in that back and forth with Rubio was hurtful to Cruz IMO. I look for Trump’s poll numbers to up in the next few days.


105 posted on 01/14/2016 9:02:15 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: libbylu

Cruz killed tonight. Convinced a lot of fence sitters that he is the real deal. Trump was Trump, his fanatics are die hard, but not a growing group. His negatives will not move.


106 posted on 01/14/2016 9:02:49 PM PST by dead ("I'm up to my eyeball in virgin goats!" - Mullah Omar)
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To: altura

Hes not who his fans think he is AT ALL.

he’s going to give up his empire to be POTUS

sure he is SURE he is

well HE SAID SO.


107 posted on 01/14/2016 9:03:33 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

If Trump has improved his debate skills, they must have been really bad before.


108 posted on 01/14/2016 9:04:02 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: altura

The whole “mother” thing shows how desperate Cruz is for attacking Trump’s mother who WAS a US citizen when Trump was born. Trump owed no allegiance to a foreign nation at birth, Cruz did ... get over it ... your man does NOT meet the constitutional requirement of birth to be president.


109 posted on 01/14/2016 9:04:18 PM PST by patlin ("Knowledge is a powerful source that is 2nd to none but God" ConstitutionallySpeaking 2011)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I know, Mikey, but we can’t reason with them and we can’t kill ‘em, so .....


110 posted on 01/14/2016 9:05:07 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: bigbob

.. How long did you have to dig to find some blog that agreed with your foregone conclusion?
I read Illegal Resurrection all the time. Watched twitter feed on it to avoid those hardcore trumpees who believe all trump and trash all Cruz. DT did lie about the 45% tariff on China. I know you don’t care, but just for the record.


111 posted on 01/14/2016 9:05:39 PM PST by libbylu (Cruz: The truth with a smile.)
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To: libbylu
Boos tell the story.

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Can someone send me a link to the whole first Cruz/Trump interaction. I need another laugh before bedtime.

112 posted on 01/14/2016 9:06:31 PM PST by LowOiL ("Let us do evil that good may come"? ....condemnation is just - Romans 3:8)
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To: patlin

who started the BIRTHER THING?

that was a rhetorical question.

Freegards!


113 posted on 01/14/2016 9:06:54 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: patlin

Oh for gosh sakes. The ‘mother’ thing was Ted’s little joke to show how far Donald is reaching on the birther issue.

He wasn’t serious and he had a Reagan moment when he promised not to go after Trump’s mother.

I’ve noticed Trump supporters never seem to get Ted’s humor.


114 posted on 01/14/2016 9:06:57 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: altura

we can however LAUGH at them and pity them more than a little bit

reasoning seems useless


115 posted on 01/14/2016 9:07:37 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: altura

+1


116 posted on 01/14/2016 9:08:23 PM PST by LowOiL ("Let us do evil that good may come"? ....condemnation is just - Romans 3:8)
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To: montag813
Now Heidi Cruz is a big concern for conservatives, given her tenue with Goldman Sachas as one of only a few dozen managing directors,

Ummmmm........

Goldman Sachs just promoted 425 people to managing director - the highest ranking you can achieve before making partner - and the list of people chosen is very telling.

http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-holding-onto-its-own-2015-11

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the fifth-biggest U.S. bank by assets, promoted 280 employees to managing director, up from 266 last year, as it begins making the selections every two years instead of annually.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-13/goldman-names-managing-directors-in-biennial-promotions

117 posted on 01/14/2016 9:08:50 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot ("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Yes, but I’m afraid we will all be disappointed before this is over. “They” will be and we will be.

Their hopes are too high for this guy.

I’m only still here because it’s just after 7 PM in Maui. How do the rest of you stay up so late?


118 posted on 01/14/2016 9:09:26 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: Slyfox

... What is a man to do when he knows more substantially about what is truly important and your boss is a blowhard?
I have posted that 100 times. Ted lives by principles, he has standards. He would never work/lie for such an unprincipled braggart and bully. Freepers always posted that.
I see no foundation for their faith in DT.


119 posted on 01/14/2016 9:09:39 PM PST by libbylu (Cruz: The truth with a smile.)
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To: libbylu

ABC News Politics ‏@ABCPolitics 2h2 hours ago
Google searches for @tedcruz are currently spiking by 150%


120 posted on 01/14/2016 9:09:42 PM PST by gwgn02
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