Ted Cruz Says Donald Trump's Voters Have "relatively low information" And Are "not that engaged"

CBN News ^ | March 10, 2016 | David Brody

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GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz tells The Brody File that the reason Donald Trump is performing well in the GOP race for president is because his voters are uninformed and not engaged in the process. “Donald does well with voters who have relatively low information, who are not that engaged and who are angry and they see him as an angry voice. Where we are beating him is when voters’ get more engaged and they get more informed.” Hunch: I’m thinking Trump and his “Silent Majority” may push back on this just a bit don’t you think? Lots to unpack here but for now, here’s the clip.

Our interview was done Wednesday afternoon in Miami.

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[Yashcheritsiy]

Rule #1 to being the smartest guy in the room is that you don't go around telling everyone that you are.

[manc]

he also mentions highly educated too, but I guess the little fact escapes you , but then again you keep up the boring talking points from the establishment.

[stratboy]

That comes from too many soccer balls to the head

[BlueNgold]

Cruz just signalled, intentionally or unintentionally, that he does not desire the support of the Trump team.

According to Cruz math he is now going to win the nomination and the general without 40+ % of the voters engaged enough to actually vote in the primaries.

Interesting strategy...

[JohnnyM]

Apparently, Trump supporters do not like it when someone tells it like it is.

Trump is a man who brags about sleeping with married women, calls avoiding STDs during his sleeping around as his own personal Vietnam, is pro-choice, defends planned parenthood, supported assault weapons bans, calls other candidates pussies, drops f bombs on the campaign trail, talks about his little donald on national television, called Ben Carson a psycopath, supports single payer, supported amnesty during gang of 8 fight, gave money to open border/amnesty supporting Senators, supported Hillary Clinton's Presidential run in 2008, defrauded Americans tens of thousands of dollars via Trump University, supports expansion of H1-B program, hired foreigners over American workers, hired illegals to build his hotels, sued little old ladies to take away her home to build a parking lot, gave more money to the Clinton Foundation than veteran's groups, and says he is flexible on his immigration positions, but his supporters get upset when they are called uninformed. Supporters who believe he is a Conservative and not a liberal Democrat.

If you needed proof that Trumpettes were uninformed this thread is all the evidence you need.

JM

[MayflowerMadam]

"he’ll be forced to pick Trump as VP"

As if...

[builder]

I agree that it was stupid of Cruz to "insult" some voters.

Just as I think it has been stupid of Trump to insult so many people other. And that is why I am afraid he will blow up after winning the general election. His unfavorables are sky high.

AND - he is a low information candidate. He even broke debate rules for heaven's sake, and had his campaign manager meet with him during the breaks in the debate to give him advice.

But the good news is - he can garner some cross-over voters from the democrat side in addition to his base. He can siphon some populist union voters, and black voters.

And I don't want to rain on anyone's parade - but these are the exact group of voters that many Freepers here for years and years - have labeled as Low Information, and Not that engaged voters. Or even sometimes caustically referred to here as one issue voters.

But I have to agree and think that it was a mistake for Cruz to have said something like that on the record, and to have insulted some voters like Trump has repeatedly.

[Jim W N]

Although the federal lands thing was a mistake on Trump’s part, Trump has consistently praised the American People for being smarter than they are given credit for. He’s one of us, he’s a good guy, he talks with us not down to us.

[rdl6989]

Riiiiight, that’s why Trump’s audiences are standing room only.

[odawg]

“If you needed proof that Trumpettes were uninformed this thread is all the evidence you need.”

We are certainly informed enough to know that most of what you listed are completely false.

[bigbob]

I am a Trump supporter, but I know this much:

Neil Bush, the guy who just yeseterday took over control of Lyin’ Ted’s finances, paid a settlement for civil fraud and his numerous “breaches of his fiduciary duties involving multiple conflicts of interest” while a director of Silverado Savings and Loan ended up costing the US taxpayers $1.3 billion. And that was back when a billion was real money...

So, just let Lyin’ Ted keep on running his mouth and making his choices...or having them made for him. It’s all working out as brilliantly as his plan to win all the debates, or to have Glenn Beck as his chief advocate.

Lyin’ Ted, Cryin’ Glenn, Snarly Carly, and Silverado Neil...that’s the Cruz Dream team, backed by Jeff Roe and the Dirty Tricksters.

[lodi90]

And what he didn’t say, but is clearly understood, it that because Southerners are, for the most part, evangelical Christians, he’s insulting Christians, too. It’s sour grapes; he thought he’d have them hook, line, and sinker. And he was wrong.

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No, it’s not sour grapes. These are the first shots of the two man race: Trump and Cruz. Cruz is now running as Captain of the anti-Trump campaign. So he is isolating Trump & his supporters. He knows he will P.O. some conservatives but believes he can get them back later in November. Right now Cruz needs the anti-Trump to beat Trump or he is DOA. What an arrogant, calculating career politican.

[Beagle8U]

“Cruz is calling ALL Trump supporters “lowly educated”

No, that would be Trump.

[BlueNgold]

You realize of course that Trump endorsed, formally and publicly, John McCain in 2008.

He has also never proposed an H1B expansion as large as that proposed by Ted.

He is very publicly pro-life.

Etc etc

[manc]

ignorance is not addressing the facts presented.
This thread is about Cruz insulting voters and you ignored it and instead would rather go after Trump

[truth_seeker]

It doesn’t take an advanced degree to find Calgary, Alberta on the map, and establish that it is in Canada, and was in Canada at the time of the Senator’s birth there.

And it doesn’t take an attorney to establish that there has never been an individual born outside the US, elected President.

Any good originalist scholar of the Constitution would reach the conclusion that persons born out side the boundaries of the United States, were not intended to be eligible for election as president.

If a person born outside the US, wishing to run for election to be president, retained sound counsel, they would inform said prospective candidate he was not eligible.

If said prospective candidate retained himself to also be his own Constitutional lawyer, he would have a fool for a client and a fool for a lawyer.

[HoosierWordsmith]

You can only be insulted if you read the CBN excerpts and the authors commentary only and not the whole Cruz interview in the piece...Drudge has a link.

Cruz is answering the guys question about why he has lagged in the South and with Evangelicals; he’s critiquing the primary race and how it has gone for him and Trump in the Southeastern and Western states so far.

Cruz is not saying Trump voters are stupid...rather he said that they have “low information” about both him and Trump and are relying more on their anger against corrupt politicians to support Trump.

Cruz is saying that as voters learn more about his candidacy and how he has stood up to the Washington corruption and they discover more information about Trump’s history of supporting this corruption through donations to the Gang of 8 and to the Hildabeast, they are starting to realize that Trump has been part of the corrupt Washington system and some of these voters are moving toward him.

Please watch the video and you might reconsider your allegiance!

[over3Owithabrain]

Cruz stepped in it big here.

[r_barton]

Let’s call him Stealin’ Neil. ;-) To him, the Republican Party is the “family business”.

[lodi90]

I liked Cruz and he was my second choice.

I guess since I am a “low information” voter, I should study up and reconsider that.

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Cruz is mainstreaming himself to beat Trump. The Cruz campaign is no longer about issues. He is captain of the intellectually bankrupt stop Trump “movement”. He’s throwing his conservative base under the bus. Expect a lot more Alinskyite lies from the “principled conservative”.