as Republican elites
try to stop Trump...."
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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A truly must watch.
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.
Could be right.
Consider how there would be no Cruz endorsement were Trump not in the race.
If Trump were NOT in the race JEB! would be our nominee, what is your point????
He knows full well! He was a Bushie at the very beginning of his career!
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
Lil Marco goes flying out the window.
Yup. I agree.
Yes, you’re right, Cruz was a bush is a bush and forever will be a bush.
LOL. That’s disturbing!
Yes, so is Ted. Haha.
Oh that is SO funny.
Thanks for the link to The Trumpinator. Brilliant! My husband asked what I was laughing so hard about.
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.
. 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.
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.
Ted is not a leader.
I see he and Lil Marco being lobbyist for, as you wrote, to one of the big corporate donors.
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