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Ted Cruz: ‘We can shock the political world’
The Washington Times' Inside The Beltway ^ | January 25, 2016 | Jennifer Harper

Posted on 01/25/2016 8:13:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

It is an old-fashioned, bodacious campaign blitz. Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz has multiple events in 26 Iowa cities and towns through week's end at a critical time: the next official GOP debate in Des Moines is Thursday, the Iowa caucuses are just six days away. Mr. Cruz is embracing the blitz and has plenty muscle. Campaigning this week with the candidate: Rick Perry, Rep. Steven King and evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaatz -- who have all endorsed the Cruz quest for the White House. The quartet will appear at seven rallies together on Tuesday alone, with stops at a bull ranch, a steak house and a 19th-century historic mansion.

"All across the country, conservatives are coalescing behind Ted, and just days from now, we have the chance to do something remarkable together. We can shock the political world with a victory for Ted in Iowa and begin the march to winning the Republican nomination and taking back the White House," advise campaign organizers.

The Cruzin' To Caucus tour spans a veritable road-trip of Iowa, with visits this week to Maquoketa, Manchester, Independence, Osceola, Albia, Centerville, Bloomfield, Ottumwa, Fairfield, Keosauque, Des Moines, Ringsted, Fenton, Emmetsburg, Wilton, Wapello, Hubbard, Ames, Hamlin, Ida Grove, Sioux City, Iowa City, Davenport, Des Moines, Jefferson and Marion....

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


TOPICS: Iowa; Campaign News; State and Local
KEYWORDS: cruz; iowa; tedcruz
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To: JoSixChip

Trump can’t even define conservative and his supporters scream murder every time we examine his record. He is most definitely not the most conservative.


81 posted on 01/25/2016 8:52:16 PM PST by dschapin
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To: Hoodat
This lie is really getting old.

It is not a lie, but I suspect you already know that.
82 posted on 01/25/2016 8:52:29 PM PST by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - losers are not winners)
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To: TontoKowalski

According to 2ndDivisionVet, they follow pastor, heard mentality. Iowans are not independent thinkers.


83 posted on 01/25/2016 8:54:06 PM PST by jennychase
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To: DannyTN

Why winning Guam and the Virgin Islands could be as important as Iowa for Ted Cruz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3345888/posts


84 posted on 01/25/2016 8:54:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: CA Conservative
Well, when you have a billion dollars, you can do that. Color me unimpressed.

Garbage, Cruz has brought in more then 10x the $ that Trump has spent.
85 posted on 01/25/2016 8:57:09 PM PST by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - losers are not winners)
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To: jennychase; TontoKowalski

Show me where I have ever said anything along those lines or give up your lying.


86 posted on 01/25/2016 8:57:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ummmm...I imagine GS executives are donating much more than our dear, brave men and women in the military do, on average.

$69,000.00 is a lot steaks!

As the article stated....GS has given money to well over 100 candidates since 2012, but only six got more from Goldman than Cruz - and two of them were Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.

Not exactly the company to keep/club to be in, when it comes to a Senator or Presidential campaign....especially for CRuz...with his wife’s employment, and all.

Optics (owned).


87 posted on 01/25/2016 8:59:22 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ted Cruz, who established himself as Iowa's prohibitive favorite in early January with an intimidating show of force, is suddenly under siege one week before the caucuses as rival Republicans pummel him and as opposition to his presidential candidacy from the state’s political and business elite hardens.

Although Cruz is campaigning aggressively, his advisers are concerned about the barrage and are now scrambling to reset expectations for him here. They insisted Monday that the senator from Texas always has been the "underdog" in Iowa and argued that a second-place finish to Donald Trump should be interpreted as a mark of grit and would catapult him onward in the nominating contest.

"I can't guarantee we'll win," Cruz told a group of pastors Monday at a private meeting in Cedar Rapids. "I don't know that. That's out of my hands. I believe we have a path to victory."

Still, a loss in Iowa — the state where Cruz has campaigned the most and where the GOP’s deeply conservative base seems a natural fit — would call into question the depth of his coalition. Also at stake is the credibility of his vaunted data and field operation, which in Iowa is believed to be more sophisticated than any other Republican’s.

88 posted on 01/25/2016 8:59:29 PM PST by kabar
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To: dschapin
Trump can't even define conservative and his supporters scream murder every time we examine his record. He is most definitely not the most conservative.

I have no idea what you are talking about. But I do know that Trump is the most conservative candidate in this race by both deed and platform.
89 posted on 01/25/2016 8:59:33 PM PST by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - losers are not winners)
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To: caww
Cruz........ “if you think things in Washington are doing great and we need to keep heading in the same basic direction—just kind of fiddle around the edges—then I ain’t your guy!. .....On the On the other hand, if you think Washington is fundamentally broken, that there is a bipartisan coalition of career politicians in both parties that get in bed with lobbyists and special interests and grow and grow and grow government,.... and we need to take power out of Washington and back to We the People THAT is what this campaign is all about!”

On the campaign trail, the people do not hate Ted Cruz at all... Here, they love him!!!!.

Go Cruz go and take the country back to the people!


90 posted on 01/25/2016 8:59:36 PM PST by caww
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
That's another interesting link on this thread.

Guam and VI are important... who knew?

I've learned some fascinating things around here lately.

91 posted on 01/25/2016 9:01:08 PM PST by TontoKowalski (Satisfied Customer #291)
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To: JoSixChip

Here is a link to the video of Donald Trump’s incoherent reply when he was asked to define “conservative.”

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/01/24/trump-6/


92 posted on 01/25/2016 9:01:12 PM PST by dschapin
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To: TigerClaws

Why so snarky?


93 posted on 01/25/2016 9:02:10 PM PST by proudpapa (trusTed!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

94 posted on 01/25/2016 9:02:26 PM PST by caww
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To: Jane Long

Goldman-Sachs has never given money to any candidate because it is against the law.


95 posted on 01/25/2016 9:05:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: ripnbang

Regurgitating doesn’t become you.....


96 posted on 01/25/2016 9:05:30 PM PST by caww
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To: dschapin
Here is a link to the video of Donald Trump’s incoherent reply when he was asked to define “conservative.”

I don't have sound on my computer, but I did read it, so what? It read very well to me. Conservatism is not lip service, it is a philosophy and it sounds like Trump nailed it.
97 posted on 01/25/2016 9:07:32 PM PST by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - losers are not winners)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

From the (same) link....

The $69,000 from Goldman is one of the largest sums employees from the Wall Street firm have donated to a single candidate during the last few years.

(It’s talking about the large sums, from employees.)


98 posted on 01/25/2016 9:08:35 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Goldman-Sachs has never given money to any candidate because it is against the law.

Now you are just playing dumb, but you are good at it.
99 posted on 01/25/2016 9:08:43 PM PST by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - losers are not winners)
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To: JoSixChip
But I do know that Trump is the most conservative candidate in this race by both deed and platform.

Ethanol mandates, public domain seizures and federal land grabs are conservative, huh?

100 posted on 01/25/2016 9:09:23 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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