Posted on 03/15/2015 6:00:26 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Today the Strafford County Republican Committee held a “meet and greet” featuring Senator Ted Cruz. It was “Chili and Chat” with a chance to meet Cruz. They originally expected about 50-70 people but so many people showed up they had to move to a much larger room. There were around 200 people for what turned out to be a standing-room-only event.
To put this into a little perspective, when Hillary Clinton came to an event during the height of election season after not being in New Hampshire for several years that included Shaheen and Hassan, only around 500 people showed up. This was touted as a huge event by the New Hampshire Democrats to “get out the vote.” The Strafford County Republican Committee put on a small local event and had more than three times as many people show up as planned.
The key thing to note is there were not only Republicans in attendance. There were also many Independents. There were people of all ages including families with young children. Granite Grok was recording live and had a brief interview with Cruz after his speech and questions. Cruz’s team had to move him along several times due to time constraints because so many kept wanting to talk with him.
Cruz was also pressed about declaring his run for President but he won’t do it… yet. An audience member even presented him with a blank check to use for his campaign (even stating he had his wife’s permission to laughs from the crowd). It was a candid moment and unexpected. Cruz handed the check back and commented that you won’t see many politicians do that.
Granite Staters are politically weary. Not only were they lied to about the supposed “recovery”
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This was on C-SPAN tonight - and I have recorded it - but I did watch the last part of it. Plan to watch the whole thing; probably tomorrow.
The more he talks, the more I’m positive he’s the right person to get America out of this mess the DemocRATS have made.
200 seems like a small crowd. It must have been a stretch to make it SRO. I don’t think Cruz will start taking off until the first debate
Cruz spoke at the Grafton County Lincoln Reagan Dinner and is in the question/answer phase now.
Lincoln, New Hampshire.
I just caught the last few minutes of his speech, it was great.
It is on CSPAN.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?324758-1/senator-ted-cruz-rtx-remarks-new-hampshire
Just got to FR and was surprised there was not a live thread on it.
Jennifer Rubin pretty much endorses Scott Walker:
What would Walker vs. Clinton be like?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2015/03/15/what-would-walker-vs-clinton-be-like/
HEY DEAREST HOTTIE,
I MISSED SENAOR CRUZ’S SPEECH, SO THANK YOU FROM MY HEART FOR THE LINK!
Will watch right now!!!
XOXOXOXOXOXOXO
WATCHING NOW!
Grate! I missed most of it too and then started watching it.
He is so on track it’s refreshing!
Thanks so much.
He’s the very best!
XOXOXOX
Walker’s a distant second on my list of two.
“Jennifer Rubin pretty much endorses Scott Walker:
Just more evidence that Walker is the back-up GOP-E plan. “
I would call that PROOF.
Yeah it certainly was!
Thanks for linking it again, Cruz is dynamic.
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