Posted on 01/23/2016 12:39:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Time to worry.
As the Iowa primary draws near, the Republican race has come down to some basic questions: Can Donald Trump's insurgent campaign maintain its support? And if it can't, where do his votes go?
It seems unlikely his voters would flock to candidates like Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio--not with the deep animus flowing towards the Republican establishment. Alternately, if Trump's voters flee him because they deem the reality television star unelectable, why would they turn to fellow insurgents like Ben Carson or Mike Huckabee, who are even harder to envision in the Oval Office?
Standing in the gap is Senator Ted Cruz, a candidate every bit as uncompromising and angry as Trump--but with enough experience in elected office to seem plausible. Cruz also has a significantly strong campaign infrastructure, deep-pocketed donors, and skyrocketing poll numbers....
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
He’s had my vote since March 23rd, 2015.
Ted Cruz Is Smart, Disciplined, and Has a Strategy to Lose. That’s more like it.
Trump for President.
You post this as if no one here knows what “The Nation” is.
“True conservatives” needing an assist from one of the hardest left publications in the country?
No kidding. This article is very arrogant and stinks of the elite. If Trump voters to vote for Trump their duty I to vote for Cruz. My @ss. Maybe Cruz would have to earn Trump votes instead of feeling entitled.
I’m still with Cruz, but bear this in mind — we need all three plausibly winnable swing-states (FL, OH, VA), plus at least one state that hasn’t gone Republican since 2004 or earlier. There better be one hell of a ground game in places like NH and Colorado, and the Evangelicals NEED to get out and vote in the three swing states.
And you just got done complaining on another thread about the source someone else was using. Hypocrite much?
Does anybody know where Carson’s votes are gonna go?
To paraphrase one of your fellow Trumpets: Who cares as long as it’s true?
You post this as if you didn’t know that 99% of Trump supporters here aren’t already fans of Ted Cruz and would vote for him if he got the nomination. Unlikely to happen but it’s nice to have a second conservative choice who’s in second place.
They’ve been going to Cruz so far, for the most part, according to the polls. I would think that’d continue.
Evangelicals would come out in such large numbers for Cruz, he’d win in a huge landslide. If Trump is the nominee, many of those same people will stay home.
It’s inconsequential in the “real” world but the net effect of Team Cruz on FR has to be a huge negative for him.
Not everyone is a scion of a slumlord.
It is to laugh.
Trump must already be making deals to get Lott, Hatch, McConnell and McCain in his corner. I can't help but be uneasy with that.
Cruz lost when he voted to allow the vote on SECRET
ObamaTRADE and attempted to rationalize it.
The loans and his wife explain his lack
of conservative strategy.
Again, deflection...good one, but a deflection, nonetheless...
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