I still don’t get why people think Cruz is GOPe. If that was the case, they would have backed him against Trump early.
Cruz and Trump have 75% of the anti establishment vote locked down. Cruz doesn’t affect Trump as much as it keeps the establishment from gaining traction.
The only way Trump gets shut out is if the establishment makes a deal with Cruz at the convention. And I don’t see that happening.
It’s because some people can’t fathom that people will actually vote for Cruz on their own, so they have to come up with another theory.
Cruz can’t make deal with establishment. His die-hard support would dissolve underneath him like beach at high tide. I am voting Trump in Florida primary. I want Rubio to receive a sound thrashing that will leave indelible mark GOPe won’t soon forget.
The GOPe does not like Cruz. However, Cruz is a tool of the GOPe. He voted for TPA and coauthored an article with Paul Ryan in the WSJ supporting TPA. Once the TPA passed the procedural votes necessary to lower the threshold for passage he came out in opposition.
Cruz cut a deal with McConnell not to support any insurgent candidates against GOPe sitting Senators in return for McConnell’s allowing him to run for President.
Cruz voted for the Corker amendment that allowed Obama to have the Iranian nuclear deal without having a vote in the Senate afterward.
When the GOPe must have his vote they have it.
Cruz’s wife is a VP at Goldman-Sachs. Enough said.
I wouldn't have any way of knowing for sure, but I have a couple of questions.
Did he vote for the Corker bill to enable Obama to make an "Executive Agreement" with Iran on nukes, and to give them a big pile of money, and not offer a straight answer for it?
Did he vote for TPP?