“After all, it would give you the ability to raise money quietly, do grassroots work without media scrutiny”
We’ll never know how many hit pieces on Cruz were NOT written because of Trump drawing virtually all of the media resources to himself. Even the media couldn’t find anything on Cruz, they would have been making stuff up by now. Cruz was the ONLY CANDIDATE not owned by the Republican Establishment (until Trump), and the Democrats and the media were not about to let him get very far.
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