Posted on 01/26/2016 10:07:49 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Senator says polls put billionaire on fast-track to nomination.
Sen. Ted Cruz made a somewhat startling statement during a recent address to evangelical pastors, telling them Donald Trump seems on fast-track status to win the nomination - that if he wins Iowa, the billionaire businessman "could be unstoppable" on the campaign trail.
The video, obtained by the Christian Broadcasting Network and the Brody File, showed Cruz telling his gathered listeners the nomination process was basically entering its final stretch, despite the fact the first caucuses and primaries haven't even taken place, yet.
"If Donald wins Iowa, he right now has a substantial lead in New Hampshire, if he went on to win New Hampshire as well, there is a very good chance he could be unstoppable and be our nominee," Cruz said, in the video.
He went on, CNN reported: "So even if you're thinking about another candidate, the simple reality is there's only one campaign that can beat Trump in this state and if conservatives simply stand up and unite, that's everything."
Cruz said the race he's running with Trump is at a "dead heat." But polls actually show Trump with big enough lead to beat even statistical variances.
Three recent Iowa polls from CNN/ORC and Fox News show Trump with an 11-point lead over the entire Republican pack.
CNN/ORC's most recent national survey, meanwhile, shows more than 4-in-10 of Republican voters, 41 percent, around the nation want Trump as their candidate.
This is the first time Trump has surpassed the 40 percent mark in CNN/ORC polls. Cruz comes in second, but with a distant 19 percentage point of voter support. Sen. Marco Rubio, in third, has only eight percent, the poll showed.
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Yes she is serious, it was found somewhere on someone’s blog so it has to be true.
Lol this is becoming quite the comedy. Do conservatives question anything anymore?
Cruz has been saying all the right things on immigration, but in actions, he rewards them for invading our country with “pathways to legalization”, and wanted to increase (x5) foreign Visas for foreign workers. This is at the expense of American graduates competing in a shrinking job market.
He is owned by the agenda of the CoC and Wall Street, several who are his donors.
WAKE UP.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Attorney Heads Pro-Cruz, Anti-Trump Super PAC…
Posted on January 26, 2016 by sundance
Tripwire Alert – At 6:30pm Today It Became Official – Senator Ted Cruz Will Endorse Jeb Bush…
Posted on January 25, 2016 by sundance
Have me believe McConnell wants Cruz (corrected last)
Finding and reading
“They’re trying to reduce expectations”
Yep. That came to my mind too.
That is my biggest fear. The primaries could be cancelled for all the good they’re going to do when Convention time comes around.
Cruz has finally stopped digging.
Now if he can just throw Beck to the curb and rebuild the trust, he might get an AG job out of this.
So, the point is that if we want a truly conservative candidate, we need to coalesce around Ted Cruz. Or suffer with a moderate RINO, The Donald.
Rush was talking about this today on his program.
He was effectively encouraging all conservatives to rally around Ted Cruz. Rush recognizes that Trump is a progressive candidate, and that the only hope we have for nominating a conservative is to put all our support behind one candidate: Ted Cruz.
LOL
That’s a joke right? After he called him a liar and descpicable and that everyone hates him. I just sure Cruz is going to race to endorse who is going out of his way to trash him and not what he would for the country.
There should not be a single person who calls him- or herself a conservative who supports the friend of Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and Al Sharpton, Donald Trump. Is there any corner of America that has not been infected with progressivist propaganda? I thought, at least on FR.....
Man, was I wrong.
I think Trump could make a deal with Cruz: Attorney General, and the next Supreme Court vacancy. Neither of those two posts have a "natural born citizen" requirement. Or Cruz can stay in the Senate, and be nominated for the next Supreme Court vacancy.
If the republican candidate is unstoppable, does that mean he may have an undeniable mandate?
An unstoppable winner
or
just the winner....?
You're right. All those thousands of people who stand out in the snow and wind and single digit temps are just coming out to see a reality TV star. But they won't bother to come out and caucus. Cruz is a shoe in. /sarc
Agreed...I can see why conservatives are leaving FR...no disrespect to FR, of course. I am a little dismayed that JR would vote for Trump to be perfectly blunt/honest. Trump is a wolf in conservatives clothing...
Cruz endorses Trump!
Tripwire Alert – At 6:30pm Today It Became Official – Senator Ted Cruz Will Endorse Jeb Bush…
Posted on January 25, 2016 by sundance
The Professional Bridge Burner !
Politics is a risky business – a deliberate business – with very specific decisions; and as a direct consequence when you cross a particular line in opposition you point yourself in a very specific direction. Candidate Cruz has also now affirmed himself as a rigid ideologue.
At 6:30pm today, as a direct result of an official campaign position and not one stemming from a Super-PAC, candidate Ted Cruz officially put himself onto a singular path which leads to either:
A) his own victory, or B) a later endorsement of Jeb Bush/Marco Rubio.
When a campaign, and again to repeat this is NOT a pac, attacks a primary opponent in this manner, there is no latter position to fall back upon (change course) to deliver an endorsement of the candidate you are attacking.
This ad does not provide any possibility of candidate Cruz reversing course and endorsing the same candidate being targeted. Bridge burned, no way to reverse. It never happens.
Senator Ted Cruz has painted himself into a corner. If this attack doesn’t work, and if Cruz doesn’t win Iowa, he only leaves himself one option.
It is doubtful there is a more apropos example of why Ted Cruz is so ineffective as a Senator; and additionally, this approach solidifies everything Professor Alan Derschowitz outlined as the inherent personal character flaw within his former student, Ted Cruz, as a rigid ideologue.
[…] He made a lasting impression as someone both arrogant and pretentious, as well as someone unwilling to yield or compromise. (link)
This is also exactly the same behavior Senator Ted Cruz exhibited in October through December 2013, and then forward into 2014 when Cruz and Rand Paul aligned with Mitch McConnell…. That alliance ended with the NRSC attacking Mississippi Senate Candidate Chris McDaniel… Cruz claiming he was hoodwinked by the Senate organization he gave $250k and was Vice-Chairman, but he’s the smartest man in the Senate?
Later, during the debate on Fast Track Trade Authority, again Cruz claims he was hoodwinked…. but he’s the smartest man in the Senate? More bridges burned…. leaves Cruz the loneliest, and least effective, man in Washington DC.
Just a Reminder, this is an insurgency. – The modern enemy of Wall Street is Main Street vulgarians. The enemy of the RNC/GOPe is not Democrats, it’s Grassroots Conservatives, more vulgarians.
The Republican Party, and the Republican media apparatus, view us as their enemy. We are the enemy they need to protect themselves from:
In 2014, the RNC approved selection rules that govern how each state’s delegates are portioned out from the primaries. Under one of the changes, states holding their primaries between March 1 and March 14 will have their delegates doled out proportionately with election results, a change that will likely stymie a movement candidate.
States that have primaries on or after March 15 will be winner-take-all states.
That’s important because another RNC rule change requires that a candidate must win a majority of delegates in eight or more states before his or her name may be presented for nomination at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
With 18 GOP presidential candidates, for now, it will be that much harder for any candidate to win a majority in any state, let alone eight. (Article July 2015)
Now, ask yourself, why would the RNC want to “stymie a movement candidate“? Who exactly does that benefit? Obviously, the “non-movement†candidate, ie “the turtle“.
Isn’t the entire reason for campaigning in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina etc. to make a movement/momentum?
In addition Rule #40 changed in 2014 from previously five needed state wins, to a newer threshold of eight (8):
Officially, it’s Rule 40 in the RNC handbook and it states that any candidate for president “shall demonstrate the support of a majority of the delegates from each of eight (8) or more states†before their name is presented for nomination at the national convention. (article March 2014)
Again, ask yourself who does this benefit? A candidate can win seven states outright, and still not have their name presented for nomination?
These rules were made/affirmed in 2014 – Who or what exactly was the GOP concerned about blocking in 2016 that would necessitate such rules? When combined with other rule changes you can clearly identify a consolidation of power within the RNC apparatus intentionally constructed to stop the candidate of the GRASSROOTS from achieving victory.
I was throwing you a bone.
I could have said that Cruz is schlonged already. Since he knows that, it becomes now a matter of a graceful exit.
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