See, Cruz people?
When you beat their brain in, they SURRENDER TO YOU.
When you sit around for months, and avoid taking anyone on, then you go home early.
Running around saying “well they liked Trump anyway”, is just pathetically admitting that Cruz’s plan of waiting to the last minute to actually run and let Trump have the field to himself, was flat-out irresponsible.
Cruz had almost three months to establish himself before Trump even announced. He failed, then Trump addressed issues Americans really care about and Cruz was left looking pretty weak and timid on critical issues.
Ted’s attempts to flip/flop and catch up haven’t been very impressive.
Maybe he thought that the base was smart enough and fed up enough to actually vote for a conservative this time.
Guess he was wrong.
We get another establishment candidate.
He'll make such great deals, though!
Cruzs’ plan and it was a reasonable plan, was to wait for Trump to implode and then pick up the pieces. Good plan, only one problem, Trump never imploded. Everyone and I mean everyone underestimated Trump smarts. Trump is a genius and he knows how to play the media and how to play politics. He knows how to read the mood of the countrys’ working/middle classes. He will get things done in DC. No one will ever underestimate Donald Trump again.
Cruz started his campaign in March, the first candidate to file, and Trump started his in June - you must have been on another planet not to know this.
‘... a spot that doubles down on exactly the same sort of immigration rhetoric the GOP establishment types had hoped the GOP would move away from... ‘
That confused me a little. He’s doubling down on tough border safety, right? Or am I reading that backwards?