Posted on 10/17/2015 2:58:18 PM PDT by VinL
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said Donald Trump's campaign has been "immensely beneficial" to his own campaign but added that his supporters will soon turn to him as they become "more educated."
"I think Donald's campaign has been immensely beneficial for our campaign and the reason is, he's framed the central issue of the Republican primary as, who will stand up to Washington," [sic] Trump told "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd.
"Well, the natural follow up if that's the question is, who has actually stood up to Washington?" [sic] Trump continued, adding that he's the only one with the proven record of standing up to both Democrats and Republicans.
Cruz said that "as voters get more educated, study the candidates, listen to the candidates in person," conservatives are getting behind his candidacy.
The firebrand Texas senator has made few friends in Washington, even from his own party, with his no-compromise tactics that have on one occasion led to a government shutdown...
"You know others have gone out of their way to smack (Trump), I haven't," Cruz noted.
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I am not a Cruz supporter, and I don't agree with him on everything, but he's actually the ONLY candidate who has actually done any work promoting conservatism the last four months. He has actually made statements trying to impact what is going on in Congress. And he did an interview which could have changed the debate about immigration, but it was drowned out by Trump. Trump has not advanced conservatism one inch, he's only advanced his own brand and the media's ratings. Nothing he has done has helped conservatism at all.
But when he goes back to promoting amnesty, we may find out that their is no anti-amnesty movement left, because Trump swallowed it whole. I'm starting to worry this summer was the death knell for U.S. citizenship.
The irony is that you know quite well what Cruz's position on amnesty/legalization is, but don't care, because you refuse to be "educated."
Makes sense
Now to the average Joe on the street, how does that even has any relevance to their immediate life?
To everyday people, that goes right over their head. The House Freedom Caucus might as well be the Bay City Rollers for all they care. Cruz’s fight in Congress reads like insider baseball unfortunately.
But when Trump states that Americans are getting “ripped-off”, and talks to voters like the guy that works next to them in the factory that is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore, that resonates.
Ok who else would you suggest, Rubio? Graham? Fiorina?
I suppose Carson is pretty conservative although his stance on gun ownership and a few other things concern me.
Perhaps I should have said “most conservative” as even Trump is to the right of the Dems.
I wonder if NBC and the other MSM would care to point out for us who the “firebrand” Democrats are?
What you see is what you get.
If Cruz the corporatist were not Cruz the corporatist, raising work visas more that 500% and wobbling on the trade deals which are as bad or worse than NAFTA, and wobbling further on retention of job stealing, tax gobbling illegals, he would not have to hope the Trump campaign will implode to boost his numbers. Tedchampion of the middle class would have moved higher faster.
Now, he is about as trustworthy as Bush or Rubio or McCain or on and on.
Don't tease the tiger.
He bites.
I agree...Trump and Cruz would work great together in any capacity to bring this country back from leaning so far left I expect to see a Bobbing for Bolsheviks event at the next school fair
Hey Marcel Proust. Can’t get over the fact that a liberal and gay French writer— inspired you enough that you would assume his name for your FR name- proust.
I like Ted Cruz, but he needs to realize that many of us out here just don’t believe he is as concerned over illegal immigration as we are. Personally, I can’t see him deporting them, at least not on the scale I think Donald Trump would. Anyway, sorry Ted, my family and I are voting for Trump.
go for the only real conservative left in the race.
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Who are the other real conservative or conservatives that are no longer in the race.
Cruz - 2016!
Well, wonks have an exceptional voter turnout rate, especially in places like Iowa.
Cruz is not going to out-Trump Trump on the tearing into Bush business. That DOES turn off some people (particularly women), and Carson has done well explicitly NOT turning up the volume.
Years ago, there was a Patty Duke Episode when Patty runs against her identical cousin Cathy for Student Body President. Each goes way over the top. A third candidate, who simply said “Vote for me.” was the beneficiary of the war.
Trump is a formidable candidate, but Cruz is going to have to play to his own strengths. I am a Cruz supporter, but I believe that Trump is engaging the right people, and can show how to make a bigger Republican tent by chasing the Romneys, Rockefellers and John Ellis Bushes out. To make it last you have to have an underlying philosophy and the intellectual underpinnings to have the movement outlast the man. Trump isn’t that man, but he may be opening the door for someone who is, if not in this cycle, the next.
Perry, apparently.
I wonder what the rest of the interview was other than try to drive a wedge between Cruz and Trump.
Rubio is the little brother.
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