Posted on 04/24/2016 7:28:05 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
Ted Cruz and John Kasich are ceding states to each other as part of a broader effort to stop Donald Trump, an abrupt change in strategy that the campaigns announced Sunday night.
“To ensure that we nominate a Republican who can unify the Republican Party and win in November, our campaign will focus its time and resources in Indiana and in turn clear the path for Gov. Kasich to compete in Oregon and New Mexico, and we would hope that allies of both campaigns would follow our lead,” Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe said in a statement.
Previously, the Cruz campaign had largely refused to acknowledge the Ohio governor’s presence in the race except to dismiss him as a spoiler.
“Who?” Roe replied last week, when asked by reporters about Kasich.
The Cruz campaign had also previously planned to compete in those states, especially in New Mexico, with a memo from the campaign last month saying data showed that Cruz could win a majority of that state’s delegates.
Also Sunday, Kasich chief strategist John Weaver announced, “we will shift our campaign’s resources West and give the Cruz campaign a clear path in Indiana.
In turn, we will focus our time and resources in New Mexico and Oregon, both areas that are structurally similar to the Northeast politically, where Gov. Kasich is performing well. We would expect independent third-party groups to do the same and honor the commitments made by the Cruz and Kasich campaigns.”
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This should be good for a Trump 5-point bump.
Mr. Haney is a first class scum bag.
Nothing new. Cruz tried this in FL. How did that work again? Trumpslide.
I think this is Exhibit A that the Cruz and Kasich campaigns are done.
Voters never go along with these schemes.
Cruz and Kasich: “Let’s be spoilers, together.”
The “establishment elites” are calling in their bets....
They are both scum bags and I hope they both go down big time.
..Cruz and Kasich: “Let’s be losers, together.”
Yep, just like Trump has said at several rallies this week-end in CT and DE; Cruz plus Kasick equals one candidate (each being a half candidate). Cruz plus anything or anyone equals loser!!
Great friends Turd Cruz is hanging with.
That scumbag can go rot in hell. POS will NEVER be re-elected in Texas.
Cruz was a disappointment, but without a doubt Kasich is one disgusting piece of garbage.
Cruz has ads very similar, damn near identical to Trump’s.
How can Trump beat himself? Cruz keeps copying him, exactly.
So they agreed to swap second and third place?
Last steps before bowing out. Both of them.
Hope you're right. That would be delicious.
But this is certain: For the rest of Cruz's miserable life, the words "Lyin' Ted" will come to everyone's mind when they see his reptilian face or hear his smarmy voice.
Under the category of complete speculation with no provable evidence: I think Cruz refuses to concede the election because he knows that Heidi will divorce him within months of his dropping out.
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