I think Rubio’s on track to break that record in a couple weeks.
W carried it in ‘00 with 88% compared to McCain’s 7%.
Uh oh....celebrating to fast.
Can’t wait to see NY. Guarantee Trump does better then Cruz did in Texas. Lol.
Trump 2016!
So when your favorite sports team wins by 1 point/run it is not really a win? Trump logic. Bizarro world...
The percentage is not important, Texas owns Cruz!!!
So if Trump doesn’t get 50% in New York, will we see the same article for him?
This is news when Hillary’s vote total in Texas was over 400,000 less than the number of votes she got in 2008?
The story of Super Tuesday should be the complete collapse of the Democrat party.
Stupid article. Cruz won his home state. That’s more than Algore could accomplish yet he came really close to winning in the November election.
How many names were on the ballot in each of those previous races? There were thousands of votes cast in Texas for Jeb, Fiorina, Santorum, Christie, and even, embarrassingly, Linda Graham! The ballots were printed before they withdrew from the race. In a two person race, the totals would have been different.
I’m not going to criticize Cruz’s wins yesterday.
He won those three states, and deserves to be congratulated for those wins.
What makes me mad about yesterday was Rubio winning anything.
I hate that punk.
Your correct, yet Cruz will have 2.5 times the delegates of Rubio and 1/3 less than Trump. Rubio cannot win Florida and his political career is over for now because he can’t run for his senate seat in Florida and president at the same time.
Cruz head to head will beat Trump! But Rubio splits the anti Trump vote.
Cruz should ask Rubio to join him as vice, and help Ben Carson run for senate in Florida, ask Kasich to be HHS, and offer Rand Paul Secretary of the Treasury.
Cruz did very good in Texas. He outperformed the polls there where even some polls that some on FR where touting where Cruz and Trump where almost tied.
In an open primary a solid conservative getting 44% of the vote in a splintered race is very good, home state or not.
Why did Trump do so poorly in Texas, some on FR where saying that he would beat Cruz in Texas as well.
“Each of the 60 previous Republican presidential candidates who carried their home state did so with a larger percentage of the vote than Cruz; Cruz is one of only six who failed to reach the 50 percent mark”
This sounds like it might, possibly mean something. I wonder if there is any particular reason why the author did not take into account there were five active Republican candidates on the ballot this time and then compare the number of strong candidates in previous primaries?
Maybe it’s because Texas moved their Primary to ST in this election cycle thus more candidates in the running. Back then GWB won against McCain the only other candidate in the running thus gining more than 50% threshold.
BOL!
Can someone enlighten me how there can be more than about 26 Presidential primaries in 104 years? Haven't our presidents been elected every four years since 1912? Or do some states have do-overs?
Cool way for a little Trumpster to try and diminish a victory.
Ted Cruz is only a few delegate points behind Trump now and movin’ on up.
I proudly voted for Cruz. Now I can sleep well at night. If Trump wins and takes this country over with his snake oil, I can tell my grandchildren that I did not cooperate!
Sounded like a decent win to me. I voted for Cruz, and Cruz won, over the outsiders. That’s all that mattered to me.
Kind of reminds one of why we got McCain and Romney!!!