Posted on 03/17/2016 6:14:55 AM PDT by Enlightened1
After Super Tuesday 2.0 Donald Trump is on track to secure the Republican nomination.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) would need 87% of remaining primary voters to win the nomination.
It might be time for Ted Cruz to drop out and endorse Donald J. Trump?
The New York Times reported:
Donald J. Trump’s series of victories on Tuesday extended his delegate lead and forced Senator Marco Rubio of Florida out of the presidential race. Mr. Trump’s path to winning enough delegates to secure the Republican nomination is not assured, but he is in a strong position.
Here are some ways the Republican nominating contest could unfold. Try adjusting the sliders to see how the outcomes change. Each line in the chart represents one possible outcome.
If Mr. Trump maintains his current level of support in the remaining races, he would almost certainly secure the nomination.
After Tuesday’s contests, no other candidate retains a real chance of capturing the delegates required to win the nomination outright. Mr. Rubio dropped out, Gov. John Kasich of Ohio is too far behind, and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas would need to win the vast majority of the remaining delegates — a near impossibility.
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At this point, what substance has Cruz brought to the campaign trail the past month??
All I hear coming from him is that “he’s the only person that can “beat” Trump. Well, judging from the past few “Super Tuesdays”, that’s not happening. Now he wants to “make fun” of Trump at AIPAC, for skipping the Fox Debate.
Meanwhile, Trump has shifted to making his case for the General Election and attacking Hillary. For Trump, he IS the nominee. And challenge to that will only allow the Establishment to steal the election from the people and coronate Hillary, and our country will be destroyed.
"Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) would need 87% of remaining primary voters to win the nomination.
It might be time for Ted Cruz to drop out and endorse Donald J. Trump?"
How is that different from the last 40 years or so? I live in Illinois, our primary is before California's. For the last near 40 years, the Presidential race and who the candidate will be has been decided long before the race ever got to Illinois. Our going to the polls on primary day has been a mere formality.
Why should California be any different?
Ted Cruz does not need to go into the convention with the majority of the delegates to win the nomination. All he has to do is keep Donald Trump from getting the majority.
Once the voting is past the first ballot, nobody is going to migrate to Trump. Even with the threatened putsch, they are not going to go for Trump.
You are thinking about the Republican Convention in July.
Jim Hoft is talking about the remainder of the Primary votes in the rest of the States that have not voted.
[Don’t a lot of Trump supporters want to destroy the GOP anyway?]
There’s a difference between destroying the “establishment” GOP while ushering a “new” party, and strapping a suicide vest to the country and pulling the trigger.
Cruz is delusional.....still hanging in there. His major move was to ally w/ the Establishment. He/s now helping GOPeers sink Trump.
He cannot possibly overcome Donald/ massive lead. If Cruz/s strategies were working, he’d be sitting in Donald/s catbird seat.
THE FACTS ARE THESE Trump got 1,300,000 more votes than Cruz.......thousands switched from Dem to Repub to vote for Trump.......not Cruz.
Cruz is a dam pest.....always underfoot, always got some plan or path that never works. He banked it all on the south and came up empty.
He/ll be lucky if he retains his Senate seat. Donald kept him way below the 50% Cruz needed to sweep the Texas delegates. Cruz/s 44% was the poorest showing ever by a Texas Republican....Bush got 88%.
The Houston Chronicle cited experts who say he’ll have to posture carefully for the future, and his political career.
Cruz will lose if that happens. There will be a total revolt against the Republican party.
Time to make a deal with Trump!
[And just cause your down at half time in a game doesn’t mean you quite playing.]
You’re referring to the wrong game. The victor can’t just win with a few points ahead of their opponent.
If Trump (or Cruz for that matter), don’t get to 1237, then it becomes sudden death overtime, and the GOPe will be the ones likely to score that winning goal.
Because this is a close election. That’s the point in going last in that you can have a voice during the end game. Otherwise why have any primaries after Super Tuesday? Just let the first couple handful of states decide.
Honestly I think they need to update the primary process. Go in 1/3 chunks and rotate them.
how about trump drop out
Tecently a member of the rules committee said delegates are not bound on the first ballad and that the Republican party picks the canidate not VOTERS.
Cruz is not expected to do well. Going forward he really has no chance to win the Nomination either outright or via brokered convention.
The No. 1 arguments against Trump is hes lying, not real, faking it. However, consider this- would ALL the Power players be this scared of him if that were true. People with power information control resources etc are scared of him doing what he says hes going to do. Why would they be Threatened if hes a fake and one of them?
Now, I like Cruz, but we have 4 to 5 judges coming up, a possible world war, etc. Major stuff. Bottom line, voting for the GOPe, Left, Soros backed Cruz will not get us a conservative president, it will get us a Democrat or worse.
Cruz cannot be prez or v p; he wasn’t.born on American soil...
I say let’s see what happens in AZ next week. If Trump wins, that’s 58 more in his column, 58 that Cruz cannot win - which will drive up the percentage of the remaining delegates that he needs to win into the 90s. If that happens, it is all but impossible for him to win - especially given that Trump will almost certainly win most of NY’s delegates (95) in late April and all of NJ’s in June (51). The math will make it impossible for Cruz to win.
Then Cruz will have to balance off 2 things: First, what is the realistic chance that he can win on the 2nd ballot, assuming that Trump can’t reach 1,237? My own personal opinion is that the GOPe won’t allow that - they hate Ted’s guts.
Second, Cruz will have to carefully consider what he wants his legacy to be - that of someone who was a team player, who helped the Republican Party to unify and defeat Hillary or, alternatively, the guy who was so selfish that he allowed the Party to remain divided and let the easiest win in History get flushed down the toilet (along with the entire Judiciary Branch).
Now, to be fair: 1) Trump will have the largest part in determining whether the Party will unify (and the GOPe HAS to understand that the voters determine the Party’s fate, not them); and 2) Cruz is entitled to make his own decision and have a certain amount of dignity.
I don’t back Cruz, ONLY because I don’t believe that he can win in November. However, I do like his ideas and what he’s done (almost all of which has pissed off the GOPe, a good thing in and of itself), and I believe that he has a very bright future. Maybe Trump will make him AG, or nominate him to the Court to replace Scalia (now THAT would be quite an honor).
Can a Trumpster discuss anything without issuing a threat?
IMHO it is time for Ted to get back to the Senate and stop this nightmare of a nominee.
We already have RINO's folding.
Ted, Jeff Sessions, and Mike Lee are the only ones IMHO to stop it.
Mitch the Squish? I don't trust him as far as I can throw him...
I would like them to stay in and Trump win the 1237 or >.
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