Posted on 12/02/2016 12:48:53 PM PST by drewh
The Ted Cruz campaign may have played a key role in handing Donald Trump the White House, an on the record discussion between key political operatives Thursday revealed.
Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, warned the Trump campaign ahead of the New Hampshire primary that support for him was dropping in their internal polls, giving Trump a chance to recalibrate his strategy in the key primary state. He went on to win New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, essentially locking up the Republican nomination.
Corey Lewandowski, then Trump’s campaign manager, recalled the phone call at an election post-mortem hosted by Harvard University. Roe called him following Trump’s loss in the Iowa caucuses to tell him internal Cruz polling showed Trump was losing support in New Hampshire, because he spent too much time attacking other candidates.
The Trump campaign was not conducting internal polls of its own at the time, Lewandowski said, so the phone call provided crucial insight going into the New Hampshire primary, allowing them to adjust their strategy. A loss in New Hampshire could have proved a death blow to the Trump campaign.
Roe confirmed Lewandowski’s account, saying at that point in the campaign the Cruz campaign “needed Trump” to defeat the other Republican candidates.
The account was part of a larger discussion of the failure of other Republican candidates to take Trump down in the primaries, perhaps because they didn’t take him seriously enough.
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Thanks! I missed that.
In other words....if Trump had lost in NH and not gotten the nomination we would have had JEB as our nominee and today we’d talking about living under another miserable 4 years of a Hillary Clinton Presidency! Yeah...in other News....
No way could he have won WI, MI & PA!! Probably IA too!!
So ted wasn’t the smartest guy in the room
“that support for him was dropping in their internal polls, giving Trump a chance to recalibrate his strategy in the key primary state. He went on to win New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, essentially locking up the Republican nomination. “
The inference that Trump recalibrated his campaign and that helped Trump win South Carolina is laughingly absurd. One has to be super dumb to believe that. (I’ll remind everyone that that the propaganda press at one point said that South Carolina was in play for Hitlery.)
That was priceless. He called him Lyin’ Ted and Cruz responded to him and the crowd by lying TEN times! LOL
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=54734
They did not think they would win the SEC when they looked at their own polling. No way! Ted should have got out after South Carolina. And didn’t couldn’t win a single county in Florida or Ohio. That’s a sure path to a landslide loss in the GE.
He was capable of winning the ‘prairie caucus states’ largely due to his father campaigning for him.
I’m not sure he would have had 100 EV against Hill.
You noticed!
Yes, but, as a pollster, I'd like to point out just how much good accurate polls can do. Trump got the word that his message wasn't getting through, made the necessary changes, and the rest is history.
Trumps message wasn’t resonating and the pollsters saved his presidency? Where in tarnation did you get that?
I got that from this line, the second paragraph of the original post:
Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, warned the Trump campaign ahead of the New Hampshire primary that support for him was dropping in their internal polls, giving Trump a chance to recalibrate his strategy in the key primary state. He went on to win New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, essentially locking up the Republican nomination.
It looks to me like one of Cruz' pollsters leaked to Trump and possibly saved America. [Assuming, of course, that this report is correct, and that I am correctly reading "support for 'him'" as "support for Trump". My experience has been that this sort of thing happens often in politics, so I tend to believe the report.]
You’re reading a whole lot of stuff into all.
Fact is Trumps message were totally resonating from day one, 6/16/2015, and he certainly didn’t need any of these corrupt pollsters.
As you wish.
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