Ted Cruz slides in poll, leaving Greg Abbott king of the Texas GOP

Austin American-Statesman ^ | June 27, 2016 | Jonathan Tilove

[monkapotamus]

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s poll numbers have slid in the aftermath of his unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination for president, according to the new University of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll released Monday, leaving Gov. Greg Abbott far and away the most popular Republican in the state.

Abbott has an 11 percentage-point approval margin among the general electorate — calculated by taking those who like what he’s doing minus those who don’t — and a 65 percentage-point net approval rating among Republicans. Cruz has a 39-point net approval margin among Republicans, but, among the broader electorate, he has an approval margin of -18 points.

That’s the biggest deficit for the big-name Republicans the Texas Politics Project named in the survey...

[jpsb]

Trump burned that bridge when he called Ted a liar.

Ted is a liar. That is well documented.

[Windflier]

“I think you are wrong but time will tell.”

Time has already told. Cruz is a complete fraud. You’d know that, if you’d been paying attention over the last year.

[Just mythoughts]

Ted Cruz is the last person on God's green earth to be belly aching over rightly being called out for repeatedly lying. Have you forgotten Ted Cruz's performance on the Senate floor calling McConnel a liar after Mitch the Senate refused to resolve Ted Cruz eligible to hold the office of president like the Senate did for lord McCain... That Senate resolution for lord McCain gave US Obama... Things seemingly do go full circle.

[Fantasywriter]

Have you any idea what the second half of your screen name spells/means?

[Texicanus]

Have you any idea what the second half of your screen name spells/means?

Do you recognize a Latin word when you see one or are you just fixated on the last four characters of my screen name. Does ignoramus mean anything to you or are you just plain ignorant of Latin.

[Fantasywriter]

Haha. I know a fair amount of French and Greek, and a smattering of Latin.

None of which prevents me from recognizing the word the last four letters of your screen name spell.

It’s not an allusion just anyone would choose for something so basic as a screen name. But if you like that double entendre, so be it.

[Texicanus]

Thanks, I’ll have to check that out but I though it was for different reason.

[Just mythoughts]

Ah, Ted carried every drop of McConnel’s water, that is until Mitch the Senate refused to resolve Ted Cruz eligible to hold the office of president. Then, I am entitled to be president, Cruz, went House shopping for delegates across this nation. Hooked up with lyin Ryan and all Ryan's worldly social justice ways. Trade, taxes and massive immigration. No conservative would ever promote the Euro VAT tax system... Cruz outed himself a globalist all on his own.

[Texicanus]

Check it out in Latin. It’s not a double entendre. If you are right, a lot of Latin words are a double entendre such as this one. You should have taken Latin in high school, then you would know English, Spanish, and Italian as well. Nice try but your concern doesn’t bother or embarrass me.

[Fantasywriter]

No amount of Latin will prevent the last four letters of your screen name from spelling a much more common English word. That is just a fact; live with it.

[Texicanus]

Cruz has stated he is against all the issues you mention, I thought Cruz trusted McConnel on the trade issue until he found out McConnel lied to him. Are you saying McConnel is not the liar in this case?

[Just mythoughts]

Cruz is a Harvard law schooled lawyer and his positions are presented with the mentality of the definition of “is”. I do not believe the smartest lawyer in America was lied to by McConnel... More likely Cruz thought he had McConnel over a barrel with all his helping out the Republican agenda... Then reality set in when Mitch the Senate refused to have the Senate resolve Cruz eligible to hold the office of president. And Cruz came unglued and call Mitch the Senate a liar...

[Texicanus]

Thanks, I guess it’s a cross I’ll have to bare. Incidentally you’re the first to notice that.

[Nita Nupress]

Holy cow, that’s a good cartoon. Thanks for posting it.

[Nita Nupress]

Why poll a senator vs a governor when there is no election at all this cycle for either of them.

Because the Statesman is hard-core lib, and they couldn't pass up a chance to make sure people know how Cruz has tanked. That's one theory, anyway. Good question.

[Texicanus]

You may be right if Cruz was working a deal with McConnel, but I can’t see him threatening someone as powerful as McConnel during his first term in the Senate unless he had no choice. I always thought McConnel was a RINO and not a true conservative Republican. Thanks for the input.

[Reno89519]

Good riddance to Cruz once he is primaried or, if necessary, defeated by a Democrat. Lyn’ Ted should retire, move back to Canada (if they’d accept him back). What a loser, a sore loser at that. Really tired of his, his supporters, and his stealth and other delegates continued scheming and attacks. he might as well come out in open support of Clinton as that is what he any anyone still associated with him are now doing.

[Just mythoughts]

McConnel is a rat/rhino. Problem for Cruz was rat/rhino McConnel would not expose himself totally with such a brazen move to get the Senate to resolve Cruz eligible. That was a huge miscalculation on Ted Cruz's part. As he already demonstrated he was willing to play rat/rhino politics. There is a reason why none of his fellow senators endorsed him. Ted Cruz outsmarted himself. Even playboy Rubio was more like able on both sides of the Senate than Cruz.

[Texicanus]

Sorry, I’m going to have to pull out of the conversation. It’s way past my bedtime. Good night to all.

[Fantasywriter]

Is it possible that others noticed and refrained from commenting? That’s what I’d do as a rule. I opted to make an exception because some of your posts came across as a little condescending. Fwiw.

Oh, and be careful about baring things. It’s usually safer to bear them.