Posted on 02/23/2016 9:56:47 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"....What looked like a three-candidate race coming out of South Carolina looks more like a two-person race in Texas, with Cruz and Trump almost certainly in position to split the state's 155 Republican delegates. Among likely Republican primary voters who identify with the Tea Party, Cruz leads Trump 56 percent to 26 percent in the UT/TT Poll. Among voters who identify as Republicans when given the choice to bolt for the Tea Party, the candidates were relatively even: Cruz had 32 percent to Trump's 30 percent. Rubio had 18 percent of those voters, and 8 percent of those who identify with the Tea Party...
Cruz led in all age groups, notably among voters ages 18 to 29 and voters ages 30 to 44. Trump pulled close among 45- to 64-year-olds, and Cruz had a 9-percentage-point lead among voters over 65. Rubio had 21 percent of that oldest group - his best showing in the age brackets.
(Excerpt) Read more at texastribune.org ...
It’s now 68 delegates for Trump at the expense of Rubio. Rubio drops to 9 delegates.
37 to 29 is outside the Margin of Error, so it’s a real lead. On the other hand it is only 8 points. Trump has until 1 March to degrade it. That’s about a week, isn’t it?
Not a lot of time.
Greenpapers haven’t updated their website.
Where is slimebag Rubio in Florida? His home State
I wonder how many Texans threw their votes away on Jeb in early voting before he withdrew.
Standard Truumpkin response, not reliable.
And then he’ll back away, like the gutless wimp he is.
The other candidates don’t seem to be campaigning in Texas which signals they think it likely goes to Cruz. Cruz winning his home state won’t change anything.
Trump isn’t campaigning in Texas. I don’t think he really cares if Cruz wins his home state.
He will. Unless he knows he can’t win, so he quits rather than lose — typical of the wimp Trump.
‘Trump wins additional New Hampshire delegate
The Hill | February 22, 2016 | Ben Kamisar’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3400536/posts
Trump now has 68 delegates and
Rubio drops to 9.
Cruz was supposed to win in SC. He was supposed to do incredibly well among the evangelicals. Yet, he failed to win so much as a single county or get a single delegate.
Yes, Trump’s margin wasn’t huge/YUUUGE!, but it was enough given how the rest of the vote was split to give him literally every single delegate.
I’m quite sure that the Cruz campaign never viewed coming out of SC like this as being “according to plan” or “ideal” in any way. Face it, Cruz did way worse than expected.
Keep in mind that I like Cruz a LOT...but facts are facts.
He is a Bush, and it is Texas. I’ll bet the number is not zero.
LoL. The Wimp is trying to win his home state. He's not so sure he can win it while Trump will be in 5 states or more in the coming days until Super Tuesday.
Cruz's event schedule. He's camping out in Texas:
Beaumont
Katy
Rosenberg
Kingwood
Woodland/Springs
Nacogdoches
Waco
Tyler...
How did the delegate “migrate?”
Something called math.
Breaking "CRUZ CAMPAIGN STAFFER SAYS CAMPAIGN IS DONE "
A Ted Cruz campaign staffer today told CNN the campaign is done. "His Campaign is done."
"The Cruz campaign has to focus on getting basic campaign techniques right," said a Republican operative who works for the presidential campaign, who asked not to be identified. "I don?t think Cruz can win the nomination at this point. I think his campaign is done."
Cruz took a huge blow on Saturday after he could not win a single county in South Carolina, a state with an enormous evangelical vote.
So it's come to this: touting the fact that Ted Cruz is leading Donald Trump in a poll from Cruz's home state?
kthxbye
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