If you are a Cruz supporter there are only 3 ways to look at Ted’s actions. First, he is all in with the GOPe to derail Trump and set up a brokered convention. Second, he is blindly naive in thinking that at a brokered convention, the GOPe would choose him or even consider him for VP. Third, he’s totally delusional and feels he has a chance to win outright. Any of the three options should give a supporter pause, but it is likely that Ted is fully aware of the first option and may believe the second. Neither of which is good.
But to me this is all really simple. Cruz has been promised no fight from the GOPe in his reelection effort in 2018 if he stays in to the end. He needs to go and suspend his campaign and let Trump run up the delegates. What Cruz does will tell you who he is really aligned with, but I think most supporters already know that answer.
If Cruz's supporters were willing to let Trump supporters tell them what reasons they were allowed to consider, they wouldn't be Cruz supporters.
I hope Cruz stays in to the end, even if he can’t get an outright win. The detestable Donald Trump will take the party down to an historic defeat in November. If we can, we ought to do everything in our power to avoid that, especially in a case like this where there isn’t even any purposeful statement being made by the nominee.
Losing with a guy whose only claim to legitimacy is his toxic concoction of ego and mouth is the very worst kind of loss and could turn the USA into a one-party socialist hell on Earth.
Thanks a lot, Trumpbots!
Good analysis.
Precisely
And all this blather about bound and unbound means nothing if Trump hits 1237 which he is very likely to do
At his current pace even without taking into account the winner take all status he’s likely to hit close to 1400 unless he collapses
Cruz has been in the 20s
Now folks think he’s gonna jump to 87%
On what basis?
Cruziacs and their GOP buddies are trying to cast doubt and miraculously go into Cleveland contested with Trump around 1100 and Cruz a few hundred less and then turn all these delegates on however many voting rounds they need
That is all they have now and the odds are crazy bad
And it would kill the election
Cruz has no track record drawing numbers Trump does and his appeal is mostly religious
What you said. He’s assisting the GOPe without any chance of being on a ticket himself.