Posted on 02/27/2016 11:17:14 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Even as Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz escalate their attacks on Donald Trump, next week's cascade of Super Tuesday contests offers the GOP front-runner a unique opportunity to simultaneously weaken, and perhaps disable, his principal competitors on separate battlefields of a two-front war.
On one side, Trump could deal a crushing blow to Cruz, the Texas senator, across a series of Southern and Border States, from Alabama and Arkansas to Tennessee and Oklahoma, that are dominated by evangelical and blue-collar voters.
On the other front, polls show Trump leading in mostly white-collar, far less evangelical states including Vermont, Massachusetts, and Virginia that should be crucial building blocks for Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Ohio Governor John Kasich, the candidates relying most on mainstream conservative voters.
Trump's strength in states that represent such divergent poles of the GOP coalition testifies to his unique assets as a candidate--and the challenge he presents for his rivals. If Trump can beat Cruz next week in heavily blue-collar and evangelical states on one side, and top Kasich and Rubio in white collar, less culturally conservative states on the other, it will grow increasingly daunting for any candidate to coalesce a coalition large enough to stop the front-runner. That prospect may help explain the urgency with which Rubio and Cruz assailed Trump at Thursday night's debate.
"In Trump you've got a candidate who appears to be able to take on Cruz among Cruz' strength voters, who are evangelicals and also to take on Kasich and Marco among more mainstream voters," says Neil Newhouse, the chief pollster in 2012 for Mitt Romney. "That is going to make him tough to beat."
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Tuesday will be very interesting. The landscape will look different by Wednesday.
And Boobio has the prospect of loosing the State of Florida by twenty points or more a week or two later. I predict that Boobio will end his campaign never having won ANY STATE! Cruz will sign off with Iowa and Texas (maybe).
PING!
he is winning only because the media is waiting for trump to get nomintated before pulling the swords out and really start hacking him
Trump is the best thing ever for news. Everyday they give him tons of free PR. Trump really could butcher small children on stage and would receive a pass from the media and his supporters.
Wait if he gets the nomination. then you will see the media who adored him because of ratings unload on him because they are in the tank for the left.
Agree!
Its darn near a trench war right now, like in WW1 France.
This is really shaping up to be the most controversial and interesting political campaigns in recent history.
I know it is not likely, but I am hoping for a Trump upset win in Texas. Cruz has been such a lying sh*t lately that he deserves to be humiliaTed in his home state. I know the odds are against such an upset, but I would so love to see it happen. Cruz so has it coming.
And Boobio has the prospect of loosing the State of Florida by twenty points or more a week or two later. I predict that Boobio will end his campaign never having won ANY STATE! Cruz will sign off with Iowa and Texas (maybe).
I’m hoping for a Trump upset win in Texas too!
LOL
FUND raisers for Cruz https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/partytime.php?cid=N00033085
Breakfast@ Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center Beneficiaries: Ted Cruz Hosted by: ITI PAC, Microsoft PAC Contribution: $2,500/$1,000 PAC; $1,000/$500 Individual
And this one....NRSC is who is stealing campaign contributions from Trump supporters...and Ted is profiting from it. NOW we know where all that $$ Trump supporters sent to NRSC went!
Debt Retirement Reception@ National Republican Senatorial Committee Beneficiaries: Ted Cruz Contribution: $2,000; $1,000(IIRC, these are suggested contributions)
Trackback: http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-rnc-is-corrupt-and-out-to-destroy.html http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2016/02/pay-attention-people-you-are-being.html http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2015/12/more-gopnrcc-dirty-tricks-and-ted-cruz.html
I could never support a candidate that says one thing to an audience in Spanish and another thing to another audience in English . What’s next ? Arabic ?
If you want to speak Spanish to the public , run in Mexico , Cuba or Puerto Rico . We speak ENGLISH in the public forum in America
I tell you, this election makes me a nervous wreck sometimes.
Finally a German that can win a Two Front War!! Lol.
Go Trump
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