Cruz Campaign Manager Held Up "Cruz 2016" Sign During Live ESPN Broadcast

Breitbart.com ^ | April 25, 2016 | Trent Baker

[Biggirl]

A man was seen on the ESPN broadcast of the Boston Red Sox at the Houston Astros game Sunday holding up a “Cruz 2016” sign.

[Farmer Dean]

Pathetic.

[Buckeye McFrog]

So? He’s Cruz’ campaign manager.
Did somebody really expect him to hold up a Trump sign?

[dynoman]

There’s no doubt Jeff is well versed in gutter politics.

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“It was Mr. Roe who hired Mr. Tyler to be the Cruz campaign’s spokesman. (In an interview this month, Mr. Tyler said he had “learned a lot” from Mr. Roe. “Jeff wins,” Mr. Tyler said, adding, “I don’t think anything we’ve done is underhanded or deceptive or anything like that.”)

But back home, Mr. Roe’s allies and opponents alike have seen a familiar imprint in the Cruz campaign’s recent exploits, which have included a Photoshopped image of Mr. Rubio and the misleading suggestion, on the night of the Iowa caucuses, that Ben Carson was leaving the race.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/us/politics/ted-cruz-campaign-manager-jeff-roe.html?_r=0

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All been done before by Jeff Roe. Then there is this;

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"Political consultant Jeff Roe, who is based in Kansas City, is Ted Cruz's campaign manager — and the architect of the Texas senator's surprising first-place finish.

Roe is hardly a household name even amongst the political chattering class. (He has less than 6,000 Twitter followers.) Locally, he's most famous for commissioning the mean-spirited ad that upset State Auditor Tom Schweich and may have factored into his suicide, at least according to former U.S. Senator John Danforth, who blasted "politics that has gone so hideously wrong" in his funeral oration. Roe has been labeled "the Karl Rove of Missouri" — and the people calling him that don't consider it a compliment.

But as last night's results proved, he knows what he's doing. Cruz didn't just hold off all the other candidates vying for Iowa's large block of conservative voters. He did it even while beating Donald Trump. It was a wild, complicated race, and you have to respect the guy who figured out how to propel any candidate, much less one who's thoroughly loathed by everyone he meets, to victory.

In an interview with Chris Wallace a few weeks ago, Roe discussed a few secrets to his success — namely, a simple message and strong branding. Roe comes across as intensely analytical. He doesn't just know how long the average voter looks at a mailer (17 seconds); he knows how long he wants you to look at one touting Cruz (45 seconds). "When we communicate with the voter, we want it to be simple, clear and reinforce our candidate's brand," he says. For Cruz, that was "strong Christian conservative leader."

A recent New York Times Magazine piece delved more deeply into how Roe & Co. made those words resonate for Cruz, who'd hitherto been identified mostly as a conservative, not necessarily a Christian. Writes Robert Draper,

"One morning early in January, in the lobby of a public library in Onawa, Iowa, I listened to Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, as he explained a central challenge of his previous few months. ‘‘Prior to March 23,’’ Roe said, ‘‘if you were to word-cloud ‘Ted Cruz,’ which we do every day — take all the Google mentions and Internet searches, dump them into a file and form a cloud — you can’t find ‘evangelical.’ ’’ In other words, voters were largely unaware of the Tea Party firebrand’s religious faith. To convince evangelicals that Ted Cruz was the ‘‘righteous’’ candidate, Roe told me, his team needed to sell him as such, from the very beginning: ‘‘Regardless of what you’ve got in the bank, you’d better determine the narrative of the campaign, and show that’s who we are, every day."

Last night's results suggest that effort worked beautifully.

Yes, Iowa is unusually dominated by evangelicals, and yes, if Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum are any indication, Cruz faces an uphill battle to get the Republican nomination, much less win a single state. But we have to hand it to Roe. Never before has a candidate that so many Americans find this intensely annoying managed to make it this far."

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2016/02/02/missouris-own-jeff-roe-was-the-wind-beneath-ted-cruzs-iowa-wings

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Nothing like this is coming out about the Trump or Kasich campaigns. If there was anything like this going on with Trump the media would be screaming it from the rooftops.

[dynoman]

Watch “Ted Cruz hits on aunt in front of whole family” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/t70b41Ln7Eke

Ted Cruz and wife shown creating their personas for fundraising commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yrd7SI7vfY

Ted Cruz Family Outtakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqpHTFJO4mE

Cruz TX Footage - many hours of this kind of this coached and scripted stuff for PAC use.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Cruz+TX+Footage

What a contrast to Trump who is completely genuine and un scripted. No need to do fake video for PAC use, Trump has disavowed all PACs.

[SPRINK]

There’s no doubt Jeff is well versed in gutter politics.
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you think this is gutter politics and calling people nasty and lyin Ted is not?

that’s why people call trump fanatics low information voters

[JerseyDvl]

It’s the truth.. Sorry if it hurts you establishment tools.

[TexasCajun]

Geeeez, does the whining ever stop?

Oh, The Horror! ...a campaign sign at the ballgame.

[RoosterRedux]

Cruz is one creepy guy.

[TexasGator]

Can someone give the time and where to look? I watched three times and did not see it.

[mrpotatohead]

And Trump isn’t?

[Nickname]

That’s terrible.

[McGruff]

They should have had Heidi holding up a sign “Send $5, $10 $25”

[MaxistheBest]

“Last night’s results suggest that effort worked beautifully.”

Yup .. really worked well in the SEC primary

[MaxistheBest]

whatever you can !!

[RoosterRedux]

Trump is Trump. All NYers know him for that.

I was for Cruz last summer, but the more I got to know him the more I disliked him.

I can't even bear to look at the guy.

[Kickass Conservative]

This is a big deal? What am I missing?

[Made In The USA]

Is that a trick question? The Kool-Aid has been distributed, we’re all supposed to vote for the faux conservative now. He’s gonna build a wall dontcha-know?

If we don’t drink the Kool-Aid, we must be some sort of ‘establishment tool’, or worse a critical thinker.

[stratboy]

Lyin’ Ted.

[stratboy]

Oh, The Horror! ...a campaign sign at the ballgame.

... by his sleazy campaign manager. You left that one out. It wouldn't make a difference if some Joe 6pack held it.