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Ted Cruz: Trump Will Lose in 2020 if He Cuts Deal on Gun Control
Bretibart ^ | 13 Sep 2019 | AWR HAWKINS

Posted on 09/13/2019 9:41:43 PM PDT by conservative98

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) warned that President Trump will lose in 2020 if he cuts a deal with Democrats regarding gun control.

Roll Call reports that Cruz offered this observation while speaking to reporters at a Thursday breakfast. He contended that conservative voters will stay home if Trump and the Republicans as a whole cave to Democrat demands.

He was asked about the possibility of Trump making a deal with gun control stalwarts Sens. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Joe Manchin (D-WV).

Cruz said, “We’re going to see record-setting Democratic turnout. The only element missing is demoralizing conservatives so they stay home. I hope we don’t do that.”

He also noted, “If Republicans abandon the Second Amendment and demoralize millions of Americans who care deeply about Second Amendment rights, that could go a long way to electing a President Elizabeth Warren.”

Cruz also suggested it would be a big mistake for Trump to voice support for the Democrats’ background check bill, saying, “It would also be a serious mistake as a policy matter.”

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WTF?

Just say: “you’ll get the ammo first...”


41 posted on 09/13/2019 11:31:41 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Ancesthntr; conservative98

Thank you.


42 posted on 09/13/2019 11:37:16 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: 38special

“Nobody, so a lot of good people stay home and don’t vote on election day.”

That’d be dumb.

Dum-buh.


43 posted on 09/13/2019 11:41:47 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: conservative98

Trump has promised to always protect Americans 2nd amendment rights, Ted. Did you miss that?


44 posted on 09/13/2019 11:48:49 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: wastedyears

Might be an old photo. Beards are disgusting maggot infested things that look like a female groin. I suggest only gays have beards.


45 posted on 09/13/2019 11:56:22 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Ancesthntr

Most D voters have firearms however and would not be inclined to give them up


46 posted on 09/14/2019 12:02:32 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: ifinnegan

The Democrat. Acceleration.


47 posted on 09/14/2019 12:08:36 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Bullish
Don't worry Ted, we'd rather have the meaning of the 2nd Amendment gently euthanized from our cold dead hands by Four Dimensional Chess than have it publically executed by anti-aircraft firing squad by our Democratic Kim Jong Un wannabes.

Make America Greatful Again

48 posted on 09/14/2019 12:17:59 AM PDT by Theophilus (Ich bin ein Hong Konger)
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To: conservative98

Ted did not say Trump has agreed to a deal, he said IF Trump agrees to a deal. I wish you would read.


49 posted on 09/14/2019 12:21:33 AM PDT by Dave W
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To: conservative98

After almost 3 years, Cruz is still nursing his grudge against Trump for being president instead of him—well actually Hillary, she would have walked all over Cruz?

We don’t need to be “warned” about these straw man issues and neither does Trump.

Cruz either needs to get fully on board the Trump Train or get off and declare he is going to run against Trump.


50 posted on 09/14/2019 12:31:18 AM PDT by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: Dave W

And why does he need Cruz to tell him this? He has been doing a lot of these Trump will lose 2020 statements lately. How about he stops worrying about Trump?


51 posted on 09/14/2019 1:05:35 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: Syncro

Syncro to conservative98
After almost 3 years, Cruz is still nursing his grudge against Trump for being president instead of him—well actually Hillary, she would have walked all over Cruz?

We don’t need to be “warned” about these straw man issues and neither does Trump.

Cruz either needs to get fully on board the Trump Train or get off and declare he is going to run against Trump.


Exactly. Forget about 2024 Ted. Support Trump NOW.


52 posted on 09/14/2019 1:06:51 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: JudgemAll; familyop; conservative98; simpson96; LibertyWoman; CJ Wolf; rktman; LongWayHome; ...
Ted is right, like it or not. Plenty of people are going to sit it out.

Correct.

Many people here seem to think that Trump is playing another 3-D chess move by supporting (in public and on camera) a Federal expansion on Red Flag laws and gun control.

He isn't.

Trump says he supports "red flag laws" as means of gun control

"Those firearms can be taken through rapid due process."
President Trump, August 5th, 2019

BREAKING: Trump Again Voices Support for Red Flag Gun Confiscation Laws, Graham Plans to Introduce Bill

And let's not forget, Trump banned bump stocks in the wake of Las Vegas. Let's not get into what happened in Vegas, but let's just say that Trump knows what happened there had nothing to do with bump stocks, or the Second Amendment. But he banned them anyway.

If you read Trump's speeches and interviews before he became President, he was very liberal on some issue. Gun control was something he had voiced support for on several occasions. He was also "pro-choice" in past years. In a 1999 interview with Tim Russert, Trump said: “I’m very pro-choice.”

Having said that, I do believe he is not the same man he was 20, or even 10 years ago. There is ample evidence (including testimony from Rev. Franklin Graham) that Trump gave his heart to Christ and became an evangelical Christian during the Rev. Billy Graham's 95th birthday celebration.

The Left is salivating over Red Flag laws, many states have them now, and many more will pass them.

California is expanding theirs, and are sending it to Gov Newsom, who has vowed to sign it. The law would allow almost ANYONE to ANONYMOUSLY call in the police to take someones property and violate their Constitutional rights at will.

Serious Infringement: California Legislature Sends Bill Expanding Red Flag Laws To Gov. Newsom

Red Flag laws won't stop with guns. They will quickly expand into "Red Flagging" groups and people the Satanic Left hates: Christians, freethinkers, Jews, the "wealthy", Conservatives, patriots (labeled "white nationalists"), and anyone else.

This is a nightmare scenario.

The Federal Red Flag law (that Trump has voiced support for, although he has also shifted his position somewhat) would provide BILLIONS to the states to support this unconstitutional and tyrannical behavior. Every state would quickly follow suit to get their hands on "free" Federal money to terrorize the American people.

The Left has tried every other method to take your guns: calling semiautomatics "assault weapons" and banning them, making magazines greater than 10 rounds "illegal" and turning millions of Americans into instant Felons, restricting ammunition sales, eliminating gun sales "loop holes" (which are not "loopholes at all but Constitutional restrictions on the government trying to register your guns), and on and on.

If the President signs ANY "gun control" law, he will lose in 2020.

53 posted on 09/14/2019 3:19:52 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: lee martell

+1


54 posted on 09/14/2019 3:36:46 AM PDT by Synthesist
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To: conservative98

Cruz no longer has the right to voice his opinion? What are you afraid of?


55 posted on 09/14/2019 3:40:14 AM PDT by Dave W
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To: Bobalu

Exactly it is just like Abortion.Trump will ruin the issue for the Democrats.They will choke on their gun one liners.


56 posted on 09/14/2019 3:40:29 AM PDT by cnsmom (G)
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To: simpson96

Go to whitehouse.gov and express your concerns on gun control to the President.

That done, recall all the rumors this week that “a deal will be announced”. So far, nothin’ doin’.

My hope is PDJT will advance a Red Flag bill that absolutely protects due process (no actions before a hearing) and throws the book at false accusers for committing felony perjury & puts them in prison.

Dems will react like a vampire to garlic.

I think PDJT knows the evil intent of the Dems: disarm white conservatives who voted for him. Safety, my foot.


57 posted on 09/14/2019 3:43:28 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: elcid1970

Their evil intent is to get Trump to DO SOMETHING (that kills his chances of re-election).


58 posted on 09/14/2019 3:49:14 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: ConservativeMind
Cruz won over Beto by only 2.5% of the total vote IN TEXAS last year.

By what percentage did Trump win over Hillary in 2016?

Cruz is not that smart and as another poster aptly stated, he did not endorse Trump at the convention.…That’s what Cruz did to depress the Republican vote for himself.

Perhaps the lack of endorsement had something to do with Trump accusing Cruz' father of complicity in the murder of John F. Kennedy. Or, perhaps it had something to do with attacking the physical appearance of Cruz' wife. Who knows, Perhaps John Bolton would have some insight into what Cruz' was feeling at the convention. Perhaps one's stand on this matter depends on whether you think payback is a one-way street.

Furthermore, you have no proof that any of this at the convention had anything to do with the final score in Cruz' Senate campaign. Perhaps it helped him pile up 2.5% in a state with disintegrating demographics.

All of this boils down to whether we place principles over persons. Either we are for the second amendment or we are for Donald Trump regardless of his position on the Second Amendment. Cheeto Jesus versus the Bill of Rights.

As of now, there is no conflict between Donald Trump and the Bill of Rights. As of now, Cruz is quite properly and publicly laying down a marker on behalf of his constituents to affect the debate, that's how politics is properly played, not by libelous accusations of assassination and demeaning one's physical appearance.


59 posted on 09/14/2019 3:49:40 AM PDT by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: SkyPilot

” ...If the President signs ANY “gun control” law, he will lose in 2020...


Yep. Conservative Sen. Cruz is probably right. Trump adopting left-wing anti-2A infringements would be an exceptionally stupid thing to do.


60 posted on 09/14/2019 3:53:09 AM PDT by Synthesist
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