"Let's you and him fight."
Posted on 07/23/2016 5:24:55 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
In an extraordinary public rebuke, two influential donors who were among the biggest supporters of Senator Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign excoriated Mr. Cruz on Saturday for his decision not to endorse Donald J. Trump at the Republican National Convention.
The remarks from Robert Mercer of Long Island and his daughter Rebekah Mercer suggest widening fallout over Mr. Cruz’s convention speech, in which he did not endorse his former rival and, instead, suggested that Republicans should “vote your conscience” for candidates “up and down the ticket.”
“Last summer and again this year, Senator Ted Cruz pledged to support the candidacy of the nominee of the Republican Party, whomever that nominee might be,” the Mercers, who rarely comment in the news media, said in the statement to The New York Times. “We are profoundly disappointed that on Wednesday night he chose to disregard this pledge.”
The statement continued: “The Democratic Party will soon choose as their nominee a candidate who would repeal both the First and Second Amendments of the Bill of Rights, a nominee who would remake the Supreme Court in her own image. We need ‘all hands on deck’ to ensure that Mr. Trump prevails.”
“Unfortunately,” the statement added, “Senator Cruz has chosen to remain in his bunk below, a decision both regrettable and revealing.”
The Mercers invested at least $11 million in Keep the Promise I, one of a group of interlocked “super PACs” that supported Mr. Cruz in his presidential run. During the contentious primary race, Mr. Cruz had early praise for Mr. Trump on the belief that his candidacy would eventually fade and that Mr. Trump’s voters would move over to the senator’s camp.
Instead, Mr. Trump’s candidacy endured and the race between the men grew increasingly rancorous.
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"Let's you and him fight."
To: D-fendr
I think it’s time we focus on Trump v. Hillary.
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This is about Trump vs Hillary. The two big clowns need to be brought in line so they don’t hurt Trump’s chances. The convention was the line in the sand and they crossed it. I imagine these big donors will be funding the Super Pacs to oppose Cruz and Kasich very soon. They are going to find out that their loyalty to the Bushes and Romney is no longer in their best interests. Trump controls the party now, thank God.
Exactly. The never Trumpers have been tantruming for months and colluding to depress support for Trump. Trump made efforts to get them on board: policy speeches, judge list, Pence selection, etc. We will never successfully engage the MSM/Dem tag team while getting sucker punched from behind.
This is at time for choosing and there are only two choices for Republicans. Get on the Trump Train now or get lost (shut up). Any “Republicans” defacto campaigning for Hillary should be threatened with political destruction. Too much is at stake in this election and too many Americans have died from Democrat policies to play footsie any longer with these GOP traitors.
“I hope I live long enough to see the slimeball traitor, Ted Cruz fade to oblivion.”
You won’t, and neither will I. Our great grandchildren will be talking about what a traitor this guy was, fifty years from today.
Better doublecheck that website. The item about Ted Cruz has been crossed out.
There are 100 news cycles left until the election.
Do you want to spend them on Trump attacking Kasich, Cruz, Rubio, etc...
Or Trump attacking Hillary?
This article is from an interview is from MSNBC.
I know what their choice is.
This is flamebait.
And this is going to help Trump win how?
Who do you think the NY Times is going to endorse? Can you imagine the possibility that this rag wants to keep the heat on Cruz to keep it off Hillary?
Get a hold of yourself and focus. It’s time to fight HILLARY!
>> Get on the Trump Train now or get lost (shut up). Any “Republicans” defacto campaigning for Hillary should be threatened with political destruction. Too much is at stake in this election and too many Americans have died from Democrat policies to play footsie any longer with these GOP traitors.
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Amen, lodi.
They need a permanent ZOT, too!
The website crossed it off their list. Go there and see for yourself.
If, God forbid, Trump should lose, it will be because his supporters didn’t fight Hillary due to the continued war against Cruz.
There is only so much time and energy - why do you want to waste it on a man who has already been defeated? This is insanity!
There are 100 news cycles left until the election.
Do you want to spend them on Trump attacking Kasich, Cruz, Rubio, etc...
Or Trump attacking Hillary?
This article is from an interview is from MSNBC.
I know what their choice is.
This is flamebait.
Flamebait? Hardly. It’s has to be unprecedented in U. S. political history for a donor who gave $10 million dollars to publicly tell that candidate to die in fire.
After months and months of never Trump tantrums it’s far better to have a news cycle or two of Cruz being politically waterboarded then weeks on end of “will Ted Cruz endorse Trump?”. It appears Cruz is already backtracking from his speech and I assume we will have a resolution shortly. Either Cruz will publicly call for party unity under Trump or disappear from this election season. Either solution is fine for Trump. What we don’t want is another primary while he is fighting the general. That is a guaranteed defeat.
THANK YOU! Finally, a voice of reason and sanity!
If, God forbid, Trump should lose, it will be because his supporters didn’t fight Hillary due to the continued war against Cruz.
There is only so much time and energy - why do you want to waste it on a man who has already been defeated? This is insanity!
Yeah, the months and months of tantruming never Trumpers campaigning and conspiring to depress support for Trump would have nothing to do with a Trump defeat. It would be his supporters fault. Got it.
That’s right, you be the tipping point.
You said, “Teddy is as shady as his old man.”
And I shout...TED IS SHADIER THAN HIS SHADY OLD MAN!!
We clearly dodged a bullet, unlike JFK, pun absolutely intended.
The Cruz’s are both lying scum con men. Ted learned from his father to lie and deceive people. Ted is a faux evangelical conservative spewing fraud and Texas needs to kick him out.
His Goldman Sacked wife deserves every greasy part of him.
Prayers up for the two little daughters. Hope that the poisonous corrupted seed and sin of the fathers skips over the two of them.
That’s right, you be the tipping point.
Nope, I am standing and fighting the rampaging Dems here in the battleground state of Florida. OTOH, Ted Cruz and the rest of the never Trumpers have treasonously chosen to go AWOL. Unforgivable. After dozens of Americans are killed Orlando, Dallas and Baton Rouge Rafael Edward Cruz can not put country above person issues? How pathetic is that?
Thanks for your reply.
It was a vitriolic, gutter-brawl, divisive primary. The convention ended Thursday. Hillary’s starts hers next week.
It’s time to point our guns outward.
And thank you. Much appreciated.
This isn’t going to be a fight. The two clowns are going to get steamrolled if they don’t get in line really soon.
bump
Know thine enemy.
Cruz is a destructive force, not to be trusted.
Like a venomous snake, ignore him at your peril.
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