Cruz has has shown an ability to win 8 small caucus states. His only primary wins have been in his adopted home state of Texas and Oklahoma, where he barely beat Trump. In Texas 57% of voters went against him. He has been summarily destroyed in all other states by Donald Trump, not even close. No candidate that has lost Ohio and Florida, and got destroyed all over the Evangelical South will get the GOP nomination. It ain’t happening and to make matters worse after Wisconsin (where he might win), the race moves to the NE where Trump will clean house. Cruz is hoping to go to a contested convention where he thinks the GOP establishment will try to hand him the nomination on the second ballot. That ain’t happening either. He’s being used played like a drum by the establishment, hoping and praying that he can get enough votes to keep Trump from clinching it before the convention. The goal of the GOPe is to get rid of Trump and Cruz...once and for all.
No doubt about it. Agree with your appraisal of his limited appeal as well. Unless Hillary collapses from her own scandals and zero charisma Cruz can't win the general election. He has no path to the nomination. The GOPe doesn't want him, the voters don't want him, even his evangelical base breaks for Trump.
The CubanMistressCrisis is beating a nearly dead horse. But the old nag might have enough life left in her to poison a well or two.
Well said. Exactly! What a joke. This charade of an primary election. The race is such a lopsided win for Trump that it’s ludicrous to suggest otherwise.
Team Cruz is efficient in inching out teeny weenie victories in a few caucus states known for their odd and malleable vote counting methods.
Cruz won:
Virgin Islands by 30 votes
Wyoming by 480 votes
Alaska by 600 votes
Maine by 2,500.
Here are the rounded total votes Cruz won in his nine winning states.
Wyoming 620
Virgin Isl 200
Alaska 8,400
Maine 8,500
Kansas 35,000
Iowa 52,000
Utah 122,00
Okie 158,000
He won eight states totaling 385,000 votes.
If it wasn’t for Texas, he’d have a pile of beans.
Ted’s lackluster Texas win, Texas 1,239,393.
Cruz’s winning votes in nine states are 1,724,000.
Cruz won 9 states with 1,724,000 votes
Trump won 21 states, and nearly all the states were won by tens or hundreds of thousands of votes. The millions that have attended his rallies have voted.
Marianas (343 people)
Hawaii 6K
Vermont 20K
Nevada 35K
Kentucky 83K
N. H. 101K
Louisiana 125K
Arkansas 133K
Mississipi 191K
South Car 241K
Arizona 250K
Mass. 311K
Tenn. 333K
Virginia 356K
AlaBama. 372K
Missouri 382K
N. Carol 458K
Michig. 483K
Georgia 503K
Illinois 557K
FLorida 1,079,741
Trump won 21 states with 6,020,000 votes
Cruz’s only way to prevail now is by chicanery and fraud, but then that’s just how he began this campaign.