Cruz loses outside of the conservative South. What has he got for the unions and labor in the North, who don’t want “no stinkin’ Texas conservative” parading around in the North.
That is why it takes an over active imagination to think that Trump needs him on his ticket, in a general election.
It would be VERY unhelpful to TRUMP’s regional appeal. He needs help, not injury to his ticket.
Trump up 10 pts in SC.
Trump leads with 33% in NC.
I’m in TX and not even sure if Cruz can lead, here. I don’t know any friends/family who are supporting Cruz. I don’t see any Cruz bumper stickers along the highways and byways (and, we’re on the roads of TX a lot). Maybe this will change as the primaries get closer.
It’s not just that Cruz would hurt a Trump-led ticket (he would, big time).
It’s that his skills (intellectualism, constitutional fidelity, mastery of rhetoric) make him ideally suited to the Supreme Court, hopefully to replace Ginsburg and to sit there for 40 years.
He’s not a natural political talent like Reagan or Trump, and he’s poison (fairly or unfairly) to working-class whites (a/k/a “Reagan Democrats”). The eventual winner in 2016 will need 8-12 million people who voted for Obama, twice, and Cruz is not that guy.
Correct.