“...an outcome that would be a major blow to his hopes of holding Trump below the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination on the party convention’s first ballot.”
This says so much about Cruz and his flying monkeys. A true American candidate would hope that the will of the voters would be preeminent. For Cruz, it’s (always) all about him, and not about what most of the people want. Let the people vote. Let it play out as it’s meant to. It’s not about blocking.
Ok. It IS Politico, but this sure seems true.
Praying that Indiana is not another Wisconsin!!
Just saw a talk show host on Fox and Friends describe that Mark Downs out of Fort Wayne as being reputable!!!
This talk show guy also characterized the Indiana race as a “jump ball” and mentioned that a lot of voters had not made up their minds yet.
Fingers crossed for one rumored to be coming out from NBC, probably this morning on Meet the Press, although they’ll liable to dump another dirty poll in association with the Wall Street Journal. It seems like forever since CNN/ORC conducted any polling.
Cannot wait for Manafort on Face the Nation today, NEED to see him oozing CONFIDENCE about Tuesday!!!!!
The mere thought of having to wait for the split decision on May 10 between West Virginia (for Trump) and Nebraska (for Cruz) coupled with the do-or-die scenario in chaotic CA is literally too much to bear for this Trumpster.
PLEASE INDIANA MAKE CRUZ GO AWAY!!!!
MR. TRUMP NEEDS TO DIRECT ALL OF HIS ATTENTION SQUARELY ON CROOKED HILLARY ASAP!!!!
Instead of Vice President, Ted should have picked his head of FEMA, because his campaign is a disaster. ;-)
Cruz will lose.
The push polls supporting Cruz are simply lies.
Trump will win over 50%.
Lucifer the Canadian Lawyer has had NO way to 1237 since New York but believes that his power to cheat can bring him home. Evil triumphs when good men do nothing! Vote for Trump and support him however you can.
It’s over. Only a fool would think otherwise and most of Cruz’s staff aren’t fools. After the convention I don’t see Cruz campaigning for Trump but I hope he doesn’t do anything to hurt him either.
When you are a backstabber and you hire other backstabbers expect to be backstabbed. Being backstabbers, they eventually stab each other in the back. Carly will stab Ted soon and Ted will stab Carly. As his campaign crumbles his advisors and flacks, being backstabbers will stab Ted on the nightly news. That’s how they run their lives.
Why wait Teddy just drop out now. GTFO!
Sigh..
This race has been over since Super Tuesday, everything since then has been political theater.
WI was a manufactured win by the GOPe in the state in what they hoped to swing the momentum in the race... it didn’t, and in the long run it hurt Cruz because to get that win he went all in with the establishment... which in a year when the electorate is clearly sick of the establishment cost him support going forward. Trump’s momentum continued to steamroll after WI and in fact grew even greater as Cruz became perceived as just another establishment politician, particularly by those who had shown support for him prior. Its no coincidence that Cruz’s national numbers began to drop after WI.
The reality is, even if Cruz were to win Indiana, win ever single delegate there, he still can’t stop Trump from getting 1237. This thing is over, Cruz is just doing himself long term damage at this point. I understand its hard to admit things are lost and you need to put the best spin you can on situations to keep folks motivated, but there just is no path for Cruz, and hasn’t been since Super Tuesday.
This idea that if Cruz can just pull out Indiana he can get a contested convention and then somehow beat Trump is insane... it always ways. Its lawyer thing... Well I’m obviously going to lose the first trial, so I’ll lay the groundwork for an appeal... STUPID and wrong thinking from the get go.
You win or you go home, if your primary plan is to concede initial defeat, in the real world, outside the world of lawyers and legal processes, this is the way you fail. Cruz thinks like a lawyer, not a winner.
He's been eating purple berries for six or seven weeks now.