Posted on 02/23/2016 10:31:37 AM PST by Enlightened1
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
That’s what I said. Democrat Demographics that Republicans do not ordinarily get, voted for Trump.
That’s what gave him such a high tally.
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He also won the evangelical vote.
That reminds me of the scene in "This is Spinal Tap"
Manager Ian: The Boston gig has been cancelled.
David St. Hubbens: What?!
Manager Ian: Yeah - I wouldn't worry about it though - it's not a big college town.
“Well, till I see better data,”
Yesterday Rush said: SC Dem Crossover votes were 24%. Of which 33% for Trump, 19% for Rubio, 17% for Cruz.
Data from the SC House GOP website shows Trump crushing his GOP rivals in every demo. 45% of Libertarians, a demo Cruz (27%) was actively pursuing after Rand dropped out. The Indy vote? Cruz at a paltry 6%.
Bottom line is Cruz went well beyond underperforming.
“DEMOCRATS voted for Trump.”
Not surprising. Trump beats the rest of the Republican field in every demographic, including those not normally bound to our party.
He’s got an appeal that crosses over every division of class, education, race, location, earnings, and political persuasion.
Like Reagan before him, he’ll run the table because of that.
Negative. Cruz has to beat Trump first, before he worries about only sucking a little less then the other guy.
I suspect a dirty trick, likely from either Trump or Rubio. (Most likely Rubio, IMO.)
When Trump stops giving Rubio a free pass on his amnesty bill then we will know that he thinks that Cruz is out.
Mean-while Rubio is the GOPe's big hope.
>>75 percent of voters were Evangelicals.
This wouldn’t be the same pool of webels who elected Windsy Gwahm to wepresent them in the Winocwacy, would it Biggus?
{centurions snickering}
No doubt about it Ted Cruz is not hitting on all eight cylinders....he is not even hitting on four of eight cylinders.....He tells serial lies, cheats on Ben Carson (steals his votes in Iowa) and hangs around with “nutcase, unbalanced, Glenn Beck, the “Jim Jones” of the Ted Cruz campaign!!! Just like I said on my vanity posing on F/R...”A vote cast for Ted Cruz anywhere is a wasted vote”!!!
Voters of my beloved state of Texas....do not waste your precious vote on this extremely flawed person, Ted Cruz!!!
GO DONALD JOHN TRUMP!!!
~So once again we get stuck with crap as a nominee. I am not surprised. This happens every four years.~
Bush dropped out.
“South Carolina is not heavily evangelical.”
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“There was a record turnout and 72% of Republican primary voters were self-identified evangelicals.”
Source: https://defendchristians.org/news/south-carolina-evangelical-voters-prefer-trump/
There never was one
Like Reagan before him, he'll run the table because of that.
That's what I said. If he wins the nomination, I think he will win the General with a blowout. Probably the most lopsided victory in US History.
But I think Cruz would win too, just not so decisively, but Cruz would govern more in accordance with conservative values and ideology.
Trump would make deals. That's what he does.
Well if the contest were restricted to only Republicans, he would have a lot better chance of doing that. Letting Democrats dilute party ideology is responsible for letting in more liberal candidates.
Cruz will be lucky to be voted back into the Senate after his dirty politicking.
I vaguely understand your point, no insult intended, but when we think of the leadership of “OUR” party, we still need to identify it and categorize it.
I agree that there’s a uni-party thing going on toward globalism and Leftist ideology. That should be addressed too.
There’s still a need to wake folks up to what is going on within our party, so also the need to reference an old standard the GOP with the “e” tacked on.
“Is there not a list of voters who voted in the primary? Can we not see how many Democrats are included?”
There is a list of those who voted. Usually party affiliations are indicated. It’s public information, I believe. (It all depends on the state code, though.)
“Someone else said 50%...... How do either of you people know this?”
I don’t know what the figure is, but it was over 1/3 of self-identified evangelicals per exit polls. Or maybe you’re suggesting evangelicals lied to the exit pollers? What’s to gain in that?
“As if crossover voters care what either party think ...”
NO, right now voters, crossover or otherwise, don’t care about the parties, but they do care about which candidate they will have to vote for come November. Rs aren’t going to vote for Bernie or Hillary now .. they may cross over in the later primary states when the field is winnowed (or nomination assured) but not now. Similarly, no Bernie or Hillary supporter is too concerned now whether it’s Cruz/Rubio/Trump/Carson or Kasich on the R side. They want their guy or gal on the D ticket.
No one can win a national election with only R or D voters. The eventual winner has to pull from the opposite party. So at some point the R candidate will have to appeal to D voters and the D candidate will have to appeal to R voters if s/he wants to win the general election. Neither party has such a majority of voters that the nominee can disregard middle of the road voters of the other party.
Cruz has lost a lot of voters who’d normally be in his camp, but his consistent statements are belied by the behavior of his campaign, behavior that he has endorsed consistently, with the exception of yesterday’s firing. I’d thought this wasn’t Cruz’s year, but that he had a future in national politics. After this campaign, I’m not so sure of that any more. He has seriously sullied his reputation. It’s never easy to regain peoples’ trust.
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