No I never had Cruz on a pedestal, but I did admire for standing up for the people in Texas that voted him in and chastising the frauds in the senate.
I don’t like this mailer thing at all, no matter who was responsible, but it doesn’t change my concerns about Trump.
I feel like I don’t really know the man, his personal life story is definitely a mixed bag.
I’m concerned about which Trump would be president if he wins, man of the people or man of his buddies and elite equals. I’m waiting to see how things progress. I think a defeat in Iowa for him might be good. Setbacks can improve character.
This morning I finally heard an MSM news report mentioning Trumps comments on the shaming letter, but little detail. Has this had more play in Iowa media? SO far as weather is concerned it appears that the bad part of the storm won’t hit until midnight and later. It could impact candidate travel.
Here is an interesting article polling between 300 and 400 likely voters in Iowa and New Hampshire. It is interactive with a dot to click for Democrat and Republican answers on things like how much would different weather conditions affect your voting, and how important is climate change to you. It also lists recent polling data and percentage of votes for top 3 Pubs and top 2 Dems.
https://weather.com/news/news/weather-channel-poll-likely-voters-iowa-new-hampshire
It might help you inform your opinions if you read his book from the 1980’s, “The Art of the Deal.” I read that book then and thanks to the thinking process I learned, I now have double the net worth to survive retirement than I would have had without reading it. One thing that struck me was that he studied at Wharton School of Economics because he realized it produced entrepreneurs, whereas Harvard, where he was also accepted, was producing corporate CEOs (capitalists). I do believe that the kind of “greed capitalism” that results in overpaid top executive who do nothing exceptional, who send jobs overseas to cheap labor so stockholders can get enough dividends to not complain, etc., is ruining America. I was outraged in 2008 when my GE stock plunged from $50 to $5 a share, and then saw that the top 7 executives had pay ranging from $11 to $22 million over the same period. When will stockholders stop putting up with this outrage and demand representation on compensation boards, instead of allowing the current well paid back scratching racket that exists on most big corporations’ guiding bodies.