Posted on 11/07/2015 1:38:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Days away from the next Republican presidential debate, Ted Cruz is performing at his strongest since May while Jeb Bush continues to slip in polls.
"I think Ted Cruz is in a very good position to win the nomination. There's no doubt about it," said Allen West, president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a Dallas-based think tank.
Cruz has the highest poll numbers he has seen in six months.
Donald Trump and Ben Carson remain the leaders by a double-digit margin.
But Cruz is surging, in fourth place behind Florida Senator Marco Rubio.
In a taping of WFAA's Inside Texas Politics to air Sunday morning at 9:00, West wonders whether Bush can survive much longer.
"I just read a report in Politico where one of his top fundraisers in Florida is backing away from him," West explained. "So, I think he does have some serious considerations right now."
Bush ranks fifth behind Cruz, according an average of polls on RealClearPolitics.com.
Still, many in Republican leadership don't like the junior Senator from Texas after frequent public clashes with conservatives since being elected three years ago.
Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform told News 8 that Cruz will likely start broadening his appeal.
"The challenge of being an insurgent and then wanting to be president is the president is the leader of a team. If the House Republicans and Senate guys aren't with you, you got nothing," Norquist said.
Bush hasn't run for office in more than a decade.
The political climate. to which Cruz is well-conditioned, has changed a lot since then.
Dream on, yall.
We go slow and the Left is going at double time with guns blazing and they are hitting their targets.
Pretty much sums it up...
Go Senator Cruz!
And I do not want to hear that I will be wasting my vote or ensuring a Democrat will win. I refuse to vote for the candidate hand picked by the elites.
I have no doubt that Jeb will hang in there until he completely runs out of other people's money to spend on his dying campaign.
I just think there is about a 50/50 chance that he will run out of other people's money by the first primaries next year.
“Still, many in Republican leadership don’t like the junior Senator from Texas after frequent public clashes with conservatives since being elected three years ago. “
Frequent clashes with conservatives...LOL. Conservatives, my foot! Because he IS a conservative and they are NOT, he is clashing with them, as he promised us...that he would stand with us and not with the DC cocktail crowd.
He doesn’t have to spend more money, at least no more than to keep his name on the lists. He doesn’t even have to be entered in the southern primaries, just the Dem state primaries. He is pretty much guaranteed to win majorities in those and 8 of those is all he needs. Those are the hopelessly gope states. If Rubio is poised to be competitive in those states then something will happen to either his campaign or Bush’s and only one of them will be in position to win them.
I won’t vote for any of the gopes or any that are not pretty forthright on immigration/deportation and border security. Not getting rid of the illegals and not severely limiting legal immigration for a few years kind of negates the value of any other right position. A candidate can be a highly credible free market religious conservative but if he is wishy washy on immigration in all its forms, he is giving the country to the Democrats after one term and that gift will be permanent.
The Joyful Tippy-toes Tortoise is probably not as joyful these days.
Now, before Iowa, it’s already over.
IOW, a Rhino - a Boehner, a Gramsie -
Yeh, that's the ticket - more of the same boot-lickers....
I suspicion there are many who would find a backbone if they had a strong leader in font -
The sentence was poorly written. I think the writer meant to refer to Republican leadership’s clashes with conservatives, including Cruz.
Was Cruz really going against Conservatives?
I thought he was going against the GOPe and many Conservatives often did not have the testosterone to back him up.
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