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Why Cruz Won’t Pick Up Trump Supporters
Nat Rev ^ | 10/7/15 | Henry Olsen

Posted on 10/08/2015 12:47:48 PM PDT by VinL

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To: VinL

Trump is an executive and visionary by his nature.
Cruz is a deft parliamentarian, by his nature.
Trump/Cruz.

Great team.


21 posted on 10/08/2015 1:09:22 PM PDT by dasboot
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To: MNJohnnie

Cruz has made it a point to not attack Donald Trump, and I will follow Ted’s example. I admit Trump is not as conservative as I would like, but if he can get some of the messages out that people would ignore if it were Cruz saying the same thing, then I think Trump being in this race is a positive.


22 posted on 10/08/2015 1:09:44 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (1 of 172)
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To: VinL

I think all of the candidates on both side would love to be “fading” like Trump.


23 posted on 10/08/2015 1:11:17 PM PDT by toddausauras ( Leftplosion.)
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To: VinL

People would choose Cruz over McConnell. But the author is right that Trump’s appeal is far wider than Cruz’s.

Trump won me with his stance 5 years ago on trade policy. Cruz would have lost me completely on trade policy except the other candidates are just as bad as Cruz.

Cruz is great on abortion and marriage. But we need a much different congress before we can make real progress on those issues. And you can’t win the presidency at this time on those issues.


24 posted on 10/08/2015 1:13:51 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: VinL

This analysis shows the obvious, the voters polled mainly want someone who will win... that’s not a surprise. Cruz will have to be able to present that he has a legitimate shot at winning, and if he does that, He’ll see his support grow among the other groups.

I do think Cruz will not cross the party line as well as I am sure Trump will. Cruz is too divisive in ways that will hinder him with the independent and blue dog democratic voter. He also is not nearly as charismatic in general.. but none of these candidates sans Donald and the NY Governor have any personality to speak of.


25 posted on 10/08/2015 1:14:37 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: VinL

“To put it in terms he might understand, a majority of Republican voters have more in common with Mitch McConnell than with him.”

So he’s saying a majority of Republican voters are corrupt, lying bastards? This guy ought to be tarred and feathered along with most of the rest of the lousy NR hacks.


26 posted on 10/08/2015 1:17:00 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: Psalm 144

I have reservations about Cruz but they are tiny compared to the other candidates - most definitely I’d switch to Cruz. I’m just giddy I have a choice this time. Go Team America!


27 posted on 10/08/2015 1:17:42 PM PDT by datricker (Make America Great Again - Why not?)
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To: MNJohnnie
If, and it is a big if, Trump drops out I think there is a favorable chance that he gives some sort of endorsement for Cruz. That alone might help Cruz pick up Trump supporters and provoke many others to examine the most conservative candidate in the race. Establishment types and liberals (I know that is a technical redundancy) will oppose him with every fiber of their being, because he is the greatest threat to their gravy train and their big government vision. Cruz will unify the Democrats and the McCain/McConnell branch of the GOpe against him, but he will speak for the disaffected providing appeal as the outsider fighting from within the halls of DC swamp.

Cruz has a solid strategy, it remains to be seen if he can garner the delegates for the nomination. But he has my vote and my support all the way to the end!

28 posted on 10/08/2015 1:17:52 PM PDT by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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To: VinL

The answer to your faux situation in the headline: Cruz won’t get Trump’s supporters because they’ll stick with Trump all the way to the White House. Duh!


29 posted on 10/08/2015 1:17:58 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: VinL

Ah, but see? He’s “conservative” on issues like illegal immigration that motivate a large chunk of the GOP’s conservative base.

That makes it a bit more “nuanced” than Ted Cruz = conservative, so Trump supporters =/= Ted Cruz supporters if Trump does implode.


30 posted on 10/08/2015 1:17:58 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (It's time to repeal and replace the GOP)
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To: TigerClaws

Cruz lacks money?


31 posted on 10/08/2015 1:18:06 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: VinL

I don’t think Trump supporters have a darn thing in common with McConnell. In fact, Sen. Cruz has more in common with him, and that is PRECISELY why they aren’t going to vote for him. The vote in favor of TPA and the fact that he wants to triple H1-B visas are both putting nails in the coffin of Cruz’s candidacy.


32 posted on 10/08/2015 1:18:36 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (Proud member of the "vulgar unwashed masses")
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To: VinL

I don’t think this article is anything more than an attempt to get Cruz to come further over to the dark side.


33 posted on 10/08/2015 1:20:50 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (Proud member of the "vulgar unwashed masses")
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To: VinL
This article may in fact be right - But it fails to take into account the fact that more than half of Conservatives (and I would venture to sat the more conservative ones) reside outside of the Republican Party. Many, many tea-partiers are independents.
34 posted on 10/08/2015 1:22:50 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: BlackAdderess

What’s the problem with Cruz’s vote for fast track (TPA)?


35 posted on 10/08/2015 1:23:29 PM PDT by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

[I support Trump and Cruz]
There are MANY who feel this way................
including me


36 posted on 10/08/2015 1:24:03 PM PDT by RaginRak
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To: VinL

It took that train wreck TPP from needing 2/3 to only needing a simple majority to pass.


37 posted on 10/08/2015 1:25:40 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (Proud member of the "vulgar unwashed masses")
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To: 2nd Amendment; 2ndDivisionVet; alstewartfan; altura; aposiopetic; AUTiger83; arderkrag; anymouse; ..
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38 posted on 10/08/2015 1:25:59 PM PDT by erod (Chicago Conservative | Cruz or Lose!)
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To: BlackAdderess

TPP is not going to pass— Cruz knew that.


39 posted on 10/08/2015 1:26:55 PM PDT by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
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To: VinL

Cruz is not picking up Trump supporters because they are supporting Trump

Just Duh


40 posted on 10/08/2015 1:30:06 PM PDT by stanne
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