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Cruz gets Jeb Bush backing as Republican elites try to stop Trump
Reuters/Yahoo ^ | March 23, 2016 | David Morgan and Megan Cassella

Posted on 03/23/2016 7:59:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Ted Cruz won the backing of former rival Jeb Bush on Wednesday as prominent Republicans overcome their aversion to the conservative senator to try to force a standoff with insurgent Donald Trump at their party's convention in July.

The endorsement by Bush, part of a Republican dynasty, is the latest sign of how keen the party's establishment is to stop Trump, fearing that his rhetoric on illegal immigration and national security will cost the party votes at the Nov. 8 presidential election.

Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas, is a staunch social conservative and a divisive figure in the party due to his willingness to criticize the leadership and his prominent role in bringing about a 2013 government shutdown.

But he is still seen by party grandees and many Republicans in Congress as preferable to Trump, a real-es

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; cruz; gope; trump
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To: rineaux; All
Trump starring in The Trumpinator.

A truly must watch.

21 posted on 03/23/2016 8:10:42 PM PDT by Mensius
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Here is something that might help us all keep level heads about this.

Consider how these endorsements would be viewed if Trump was not in the race.


22 posted on 03/23/2016 8:12:27 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: dowcaet
Like the SCOTUS gig?

Could be right.

23 posted on 03/23/2016 8:12:56 PM PDT by rineaux (It's not a lie, it's Ted Truth.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Consider how there would be no Cruz endorsement were Trump not in the race.


24 posted on 03/23/2016 8:13:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
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To: UCANSEE2

If Trump were NOT in the race JEB! would be our nominee, what is your point????


25 posted on 03/23/2016 8:13:46 PM PDT by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: rineaux

He knows full well! He was a Bushie at the very beginning of his career!


26 posted on 03/23/2016 8:16:31 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Trump it is.)
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To: rineaux

They will throw him on the ticket as VP... it’s coming ..I will write in Trump and get ready for endless DIM rule until the end


27 posted on 03/23/2016 8:17:02 PM PDT by Neu Pragmatist (Stop the GOPe and DIMS ...Defeat Cruz, Levin, Beck, Romney - Vote Trump)
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To: Mensius
Funny.

Lil Marco goes flying out the window.

28 posted on 03/23/2016 8:17:44 PM PDT by rineaux (It's not a lie, it's Ted Truth.)
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To: dowcaet

Yup. I agree.


29 posted on 03/23/2016 8:18:10 PM PDT by Ladysforest (Racism, misogyny, bigotry, xenophobia and vulgarity - with just a smattering of threats and violence)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Yes, you’re right, Cruz was a bush is a bush and forever will be a bush.


30 posted on 03/23/2016 8:19:49 PM PDT by rineaux (It's not a lie, it's Ted Truth.)
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To: rineaux

LOL. That’s disturbing!


31 posted on 03/23/2016 8:20:51 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Flick Lives

Yes, so is Ted. Haha.


32 posted on 03/23/2016 8:22:31 PM PDT by rineaux (It's not a lie, it's Ted Truth.)
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To: Mensius

Oh that is SO funny.


33 posted on 03/23/2016 8:22:52 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: Mensius

Thanks for the link to The Trumpinator. Brilliant! My husband asked what I was laughing so hard about.


34 posted on 03/23/2016 8:23:16 PM PDT by Kipp
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To: rineaux

Yeah, but how is that gonna work since we know Jeb, Ryan, Kasich or another handpicked candidate from a brokered convention won’t win against Hillary. I was thinking more a CEO job with a company owned by one of the big corporate donors. However it turns out Cruz will be exposed as a huge fraud, and the anger his supporters will have against him will be ugly, far worse than anything we’re seeing in this primary race.


35 posted on 03/23/2016 8:23:21 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
If the gope steals the nomination from Trump I will never vote for who the gope selects especially not that Canadian fraudster Rafael Cruz

. In fact for what they've done to Trump so far I will never support a gope ,gop or the GOp again. I'm out. There is only 1 uni-party against Trump and the American people.

36 posted on 03/23/2016 8:24:09 PM PDT by rurgan (only taxes allowed 5% federal sales tax, 3% state ,2% local. no income, no property tax)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All
"Cruz gets Jeb Bush backing
as Republican elites
try to stop Trump...."


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37 posted on 03/23/2016 8:26:50 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: rurgan

Cruz is polling well in Wisconsin and latest Fox poll shows him tied with Trump.

It’s not “they” It’s the American people who don’t want Trump.

So, basically you’re voting for Hillary if Trump doesn’t win.

Well, good luck with that.


38 posted on 03/23/2016 8:27:08 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: dowcaet
CEO, no way, lobbyist, yes.

Ted is not a leader.

I see he and Lil Marco being lobbyist for, as you wrote, to one of the big corporate donors.

39 posted on 03/23/2016 8:29:31 PM PDT by rineaux (It's not a lie, it's Ted Truth.)
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To: altura
New tagline...
40 posted on 03/23/2016 8:30:31 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Trump: On the third day of Christmas, Three wives, two affairs, and a partridge in a pear tree.)
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