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Cruz supporters alarmed by possible Trump endorsement
Washington Examiner ^ | September 22, 2016 | By DAVID M. DRUCKER

Posted on 09/22/2016 12:25:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

Ted Cruz supporters were alarmed Wednesday at suggestions that he was on the verge of endorsing Donald Trump.

They worry that the Texas senator could squander his brand as a fighter — and goodwill earned among many through his stubborn refusal to back his party's nominee — if he caves with nothing to show for it.

Cruz has held out on the grounds that Trump is insufficiently conservative, and because Trump attacked his wife and father down the stretch of their heated battle for the Republican nomination.

The senator even took the extraordinary step of declining to endorse Trump during a televised, prime time speech delivered from the stage of the New York businessman's own nominating convention.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016endorsements; 2016gopprimary; cruz; cruz2016; elections; endorsement; trump
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To: blacknazi

I think you may have something there!!!


201 posted on 09/22/2016 2:36:00 PM PDT by LTC.Ret
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To: scooby321

Daddy Bush was called a uncaring wimp and vilified by the Clintons. W was called a retard and vilified by Hillary. And yet there good friends. Only in DC.


202 posted on 09/22/2016 2:36:31 PM PDT by stratboy
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To: Jim Robinson

Amen, Jim. Couldn’t say it better.


203 posted on 09/22/2016 2:37:04 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Texan5
Cruz had better cowboy up and honor his pledge to support the nominee-that is unless he is ready to open a law office in Houston Calgary and work for a living.

Ted’s new Yellow Pages advertisement.


Rafael Edward Cruz LLP
C/O FMC
Second Floor, Unit 21
1403 29 Street NW
Calgary, AB, T2N 2T9
CANADA

Phone: (403) 944-1321

”I won the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.
I'll lie for you too.”

204 posted on 09/22/2016 2:37:46 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Jus Soli + Jus Sanguinis = NBC)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Didn’t Eugene J. McCarthy wait until October 1968 to endorse HHH?


205 posted on 09/22/2016 2:40:49 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, 2016)
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To: Theodore R.
Did he cause a ruckus and foment dissent and disharmony at the convention first?

-PJ

206 posted on 09/22/2016 2:43:26 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Sontagged
“Ye shall know them by their fruits” applies to Ted Cruz in the Senate.

And on the campaign trail, I might add.

The man has shown his true colors. Unfortunately, some people seem willing to completely overlook all that we've seen of his real character.

207 posted on 09/22/2016 2:43:31 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Jim Robinson

It would be nice to see him do it. Let Romney, Kasich, and the Bushes be the main holdouts.


208 posted on 09/22/2016 2:45:55 PM PDT by FR_addict (Ryan needs to go!)
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To: blacknazi

R. Perry is expected to challenge Cruz for the Senate in the 2018 primary.


209 posted on 09/22/2016 2:46:18 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, 2016)
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To: castlegreyskull

Check any new med you got.


210 posted on 09/22/2016 2:46:53 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Windflier

It should be done privately. Not publicly. And it’s probably already been done. See post 158 above. Good analysis.


211 posted on 09/22/2016 2:47:44 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Make phone calls. Knock on doors. Write letters. Or wake to a nightmare in November)
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To: Hostage

Exactly.


212 posted on 09/22/2016 2:48:39 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: stratboy

Maybe the unpopular Bushes gave the popular Clintons “permission” to ridicule them.


213 posted on 09/22/2016 2:53:17 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, 2016)
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To: ASA Vet

Much as I dislike the guy-he actually is an American citizen-but if he wants to get a law license in Canada, move back there and open his office, that is fine with me-we have so many ambulance chasing lawyers in the state that every other ad aired during local news, Fox channel-or on Telemundo-is for some personal injury shark’s office promising to work for you-we really don’t need any more of those-and Ted sounds just like one of them...


214 posted on 09/22/2016 2:53:42 PM PDT by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to drive a hard line"...)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Some of the McCarthy backers may have been involved in the riots at the Chicago convention, but I don’t think too many probably were.


215 posted on 09/22/2016 2:54:13 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, 2016)
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To: Alberta's Child

I cannot see Cruz being named to anything by Trump.


216 posted on 09/22/2016 2:54:48 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Lumper20
He doesn't have to be named to anything. In fact, I hope he isn't. Cabinet members and senior staff in the executive branch rarely have successful presidential bids later in their careers.

The question is: If Trump is the president and Cruz is a U.S. Senator, then how do they deal with each other in a way that works out for both of them?

217 posted on 09/22/2016 2:56:17 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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To: RKBA Democrat
It should be done privately. Not publicly. And it’s probably already been done.

Either way, I don't think it makes much difference to the outcome of the race, or to the future of Ted's political career.

I honestly don't care what Ted Cruz does, going forward. He's dead to me.

signed,
Former Donating Cruz Supporter

218 posted on 09/22/2016 2:56:32 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Couldn’t agree more Jim


219 posted on 09/22/2016 2:57:09 PM PDT by NYC-RepublicanCT (Trump vs Media/Dems/Obamas/NeverTrumpers. Still winning!!!)
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To: Windflier

Too late, Ted.

Any endorsement now would simply prove that you have been just been reading the polls.

Everyone knows you have no honor, we saw your political suicide on live TV.

Rick Perry will have no problem against you in the primary, if you even bother to show up. I think you won’t.

Goldman Sachs may offer you a small field office, I hear Nebraska is nice. Closer to Canada.


220 posted on 09/22/2016 2:59:05 PM PDT by ChuteTheMall (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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