Trump Should Drop Out if He Doesn't Get Majority in New York, Cruz Campaign Manager Says

ABC News ^ | April 7, 2016 | Jordyn Phelps

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ted Cruz’s campaign manager is calling on GOP frontrunner Donald Trump to drop out of the race if he fails to clinch a majority in his home state primary later this month.

“If he doesn’t get over 50 percent, he should probably consider dropping out, like everyone else has when they don’t win their home state in a dramatic fashion,” Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe said in an interview on ABC News’ “Powerhouse Politics” podcast Thursday.

While quipping that he doesn’t expect the GOP frontrunner to take his advice, Roe also acknowledged that Trump is the “huge favorite” headed into the New York primary and that it is an “away game” for Cruz, who did little to invite the New York vote when earlier in the campaign cycle he criticized Trump for having “New York values.”

“I’m assuming Donald is very strong in his home state,” Roe said.

Still, Roe said the campaign sees a path for Cruz to walk away with at least some delegates from the Empire State...

[corkoman]

Whats good for the goose?

[Luircin]

Ted didn’t get a majority in Texas. Should he drop out?

[Rusty0604]

I thought Cruz got below 50% in TX.

[napscoordinator]

Damn. Cruz is desperate. Why didn’t Cruz do the same in Texas? We’d be rid of him now. Ugh!

[dynoman]

What a Brain. Dead. Stupid. comment.

[dynoman]

Jeff Roe is from Kansas City. He’s a sleezebag. So was the guy Ted fired, and so is the guy that replaced him - busted for hiring illegal aliens - twice.

There’s no doubt Jeff is well versed in gutter politics.

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“It was Mr. Roe who hired Mr. Tyler to be the Cruz campaign’s spokesman. (In an interview this month, Mr. Tyler said he had “learned a lot” from Mr. Roe. “Jeff wins,” Mr. Tyler said, adding, “I don’t think anything we’ve done is underhanded or deceptive or anything like that.”)

But back home, Mr. Roe’s allies and opponents alike have seen a familiar imprint in the Cruz campaign’s recent exploits, which have included a Photoshopped image of Mr. Rubio and the misleading suggestion, on the night of the Iowa caucuses, that Ben Carson was leaving the race.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/us/politics/ted-cruz-campaign-manager-jeff-roe.html?_r=0

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All been done before by Jeff Roe. Then there is this;

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"Political consultant Jeff Roe, who is based in Kansas City, is Ted Cruz's campaign manager — and the architect of the Texas senator's surprising first-place finish.

Roe is hardly a household name even amongst the political chattering class. (He has less than 6,000 Twitter followers.) Locally, he's most famous for commissioning the mean-spirited ad that upset State Auditor Tom Schweich and may have factored into his suicide, at least according to former U.S. Senator John Danforth, who blasted "politics that has gone so hideously wrong" in his funeral oration. Roe has been labeled "the Karl Rove of Missouri" — and the people calling him that don't consider it a compliment.

But as last night's results proved, he knows what he's doing. Cruz didn't just hold off all the other candidates vying for Iowa's large block of conservative voters. He did it even while beating Donald Trump. It was a wild, complicated race, and you have to respect the guy who figured out how to propel any candidate, much less one who's thoroughly loathed by everyone he meets, to victory.

In an interview with Chris Wallace a few weeks ago, Roe discussed a few secrets to his success — namely, a simple message and strong branding. Roe comes across as intensely analytical. He doesn't just know how long the average voter looks at a mailer (17 seconds); he knows how long he wants you to look at one touting Cruz (45 seconds). "When we communicate with the voter, we want it to be simple, clear and reinforce our candidate's brand," he says. For Cruz, that was "strong Christian conservative leader."

A recent New York Times Magazine piece delved more deeply into how Roe & Co. made those words resonate for Cruz, who'd hitherto been identified mostly as a conservative, not necessarily a Christian. Writes Robert Draper,

"One morning early in January, in the lobby of a public library in Onawa, Iowa, I listened to Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, as he explained a central challenge of his previous few months. ‘‘Prior to March 23,’’ Roe said, ‘‘if you were to word-cloud ‘Ted Cruz,’ which we do every day — take all the Google mentions and Internet searches, dump them into a file and form a cloud — you can’t find ‘evangelical.’ ’’ In other words, voters were largely unaware of the Tea Party firebrand’s religious faith. To convince evangelicals that Ted Cruz was the ‘‘righteous’’ candidate, Roe told me, his team needed to sell him as such, from the very beginning: ‘‘Regardless of what you’ve got in the bank, you’d better determine the narrative of the campaign, and show that’s who we are, every day."

Last night's results suggest that effort worked beautifully.

Yes, Iowa is unusually dominated by evangelicals, and yes, if Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum are any indication, Cruz faces an uphill battle to get the Republican nomination, much less win a single state. But we have to hand it to Roe. Never before has a candidate that so many Americans find this intensely annoying managed to make it this far."

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2016/02/02/missouris-own-jeff-roe-was-the-wind-beneath-ted-cruzs-iowa-wings

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Nothing like this is coming out about the Trump or Kasich campaigns. If there was anything like this going on with Trump the media would be screaming it from the rooftops.

[PghBaldy]

Cruz only got 43.8 in Texas

[HamiltonJay]

hahahahahahahaah...

BY that standard, Cruz should have dropped out after Texas.

Cruz next chance at a win isn’t until May 10th... He’s going to have to sit through a whole lot more losing to then try to claim he’s the candidate.

Watching the GOP trying to destroy the first candidate in 30 years that actually is expanding the base is insane... and shows why the GOP base has been in such perpetual decline for 30 years.

[2ndDivisionVet]

That was a 6-way race. Now we’re down to 2 and a half.

[Mastador1]

I think the idea was to tweak Trumps nose, it’s call brinkmanship. What, you thought only Trump could play?

[Steven Tyler]

If Canada Cruz does not win his home province, Alberta, oh wait.....

[hsmomx3]

In his dreams...yea, right. You don’t tell a New Yorker to quit. Wow, Lil Ted has never played opposite a New Yorker!! Just wait...

[map]

If so, then Cruz should drop out if Trump’s gets +50%.

Cruz wasn’t even close to 50% in principled conservative Texas. They know a phony when they see one.

[DesertRhino]

Said the guy in second place.....

[orchestra]

43.8% for Lyin’ Ted in Texas.

[Lurkinanloomin]

So Ted should have dropped out after Texas?

[irishjuggler]

Roe is awesome. I love how they do and say just the right things to get under the skin of Trump and his minions. The Cruz campaign is like Br’er Rabbit to the Trump campaign’s Br’er Fox.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

Someone posted in a different thread that Preibus was overheard requesting that the Diebold machines keep Trump under 50%.....

Coincidence???

[Innovative]

The nerv...

Cruz should be the one to drop out.