Where Trump is despised here and there is because he has exposed the Cheap Labor Express, tracked their money from Wall Street to their GOP connections in Congress (McConnell/Cornyn), to the Chamber of Commerce, over through K Street, (even to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and their direct line to Paul Ryan, in the HoR).
All that wealth and agenda funded every single Republican candidate, all 17, except for Carson and TRUMP.
Republicans know it and are furious about it, thus the easy path for someone like TRUMP, who can name names when he is ready. All of his nemesis know it’s coming if they can ever pose a real challenge to the TRUMP numbers.
Texas will go TRUMP, maybe narrowly, but personally,I see no real difference between Texas and South Carolina white Evangelicals, blue collar, and military voters.
Should TRUMP actually sweep on Super Tuesday and then go into the winner takes all states, on the 15th, then it is a shut out on the delegate count. All the shouting is over.
And, TRUMP smartly, LIVES in Florida! THAT is the UUUUUGE.
The big difference is that Texas voters know Ted Cruz. He hasn't been defined by the LieStreamMedia here, or by Trump. People know and will vote for Ted, winner take all.
That's why, in 2012, the 'Rats instigated a federal lawsuit to stop or delay the Texas primary 'cuz we wuz being meeeeeaan to black fokes and po' fokes and puhhsuns of cullah, in the 2011 redistricting. It was b.s., the Supreme Court itself prorogated (how often do you hear that? Like, never!) and slapped it down and sent it back charred and flaming, with instructions not to present that litigation again.
The 'Rats were back in court the very next day, before a forum-shopped 'Rat judge, with another lawsuit.
As a result of this extreme maneuvering and plotting, the Texas GOP primary was delayed by over a month, by which time the shouting had pretty much died down, and the 'Rats had the nominee they wanted, the weakest man in the field -- Mitt Romney.
And the e-GOP dominated Texas Republican Party never lifted a finger.
They were the other complicit party, that didn't want Texas to weigh in on the primary campaign, because Texas is a conservative State with proud people, and they're going to be a much tougher sell for Donald Trump. In Texas, "New York City" is a swear word.
But early voting here has already begun, so let's get it on. Come dance with the one what brung you!
Don’t fool yourself, sure there are some who fear Trump for disrupting the cheap kabob cores, but mostly Trump is despised for being Trump, a crass, unrefined, conspicuous consumer with no manners.
It is possible that Trump could take Texas because there has been a strong anti- Cruz campaign there among Libertarians and Rove Republicans. That is really what this campaign is about, joining the atheist Libertarians with the Statist Insiders to take over the Republican Party and get rid of the social Conservatives and Christians.