Posted on 02/04/2016 4:30:06 PM PST by springwater13
In a striking reversal of rhetoric, Donald Trump would not rule out Ted Cruz as his hypothetical vice-presidential pick.
"Well, I don"t know. Look, I have nothing against him. It was sort of a sad thing that happened, but I'"ve always liked him," Trump told Hugh Hewitt on his radio show Thursday, after weeks of trashing his primary rival as nasty, hypocritical and disliked.
Trump added that he has "always gotten along well" with Cruz, but that "I'm so much now focused on New Hampshire."
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Why would the Democrats pick up the birther cause when there are so many Republicans doing it for them?
Besides, none of them will have standing.
What’s the old saying
Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.....
I’m going to thrash Jeb Bush!
Look, I’m already beating Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, Scott Walker, and Bobby Jindal. I’m moving up. I’ll be breathing down Trump’s neck in no time.
Rubio would be a bad choice
I will not vote for ANY Cheap Labor Express candidates
Martin Shkreli is going to be his VP. He is the only one who can stand up like Trump.
Waaaaaaay better than Hillary.
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Settled law.
No court would hear such a case; it would fly in the face of the congress, which holds sole authority on citizenship.
Trump is brilliant. He went day after day about Cruz and Iowa until the national news picked it up tonight and now he can play nice while the truth gets out to all the american voters. He is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. I am really surprised that some here are against him.
I doubt Cruz would accept.
To do so would be to hitch his future to Trump’s where he’d have to parrot his bosses liberal policies.
That would be the end of Cruz running ever again as a conservative and he’s young and has potentially many more runs ahead of him.
McConnellhas already said that the Senate would not take up a Resolution.
A Senate Resolution does not change the Constitution.
It provides a fig leaf for the powers that be to ignore it.
I think Trump has ruled him out when he questioned his eligibility. How does he walk that back now?
Aside from the question of fact as to where McCain was born, there is a difference between ‘The United States’ and “United States Territory’.
That’s why there was always a question about Barry Goldwater, born in the Arizona Territory before Arizona became part of ‘The United States’.
Of course, Barry Goldwater was a US citizen by birth - but like Ted Cruz or John Cain, only by action of statute law. For me that is a distinction without a difference.
“Looks like Donald got the message that going scorched earth on Cruz when he poses no threat is counterproductive. He wasn’t talking about Iowa today. He was focused on his agenda at his events and in interviews.”
Looks like someone finally informed him that he’d better make sure he wins NH or his campaign is in serious trouble. This is his home area and the state is tailor made for his moderate-populist appeal. It is as much a “must-win” for him as Iowa was for Cruz, and Cruz is clearly not the main threat here, Rubio is.
Well, I personally DON’T believe Cruz is eligible because of the extremely strong focus on jus soli among pretty much all the early jurists and common law commentators.
However, if he goes and gets the fig leaf from the Senate or a court, well, I guess that’s settled regardless of what I think.
Better to suffer this little illegality than to allow the greater evil to occur, as Cato said.
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>> “ He will do whatever to win” <<
How did that work out in Iowa?
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Haha, just knock out Marco Polo first
Also don’t forget Gilmore
However should trump make it to the general election, he would never select Cruz as his running mate if Hillary is available, because Hillary brings much more to the table for Trump to help him WIN in the general. And let's face it, that's what his supporters want him to do - WIN. And then build a wall that Mexico pays for. And a little thing like choosing Hillary as his running mate wouldn't even dissuade many of them from voting for him. And choosing Hillary would help him cut into the liberal democrat base against a socialist Sanders. And would help him with older women, lesbian women, moderate democrats, pro-choice women, shove Bernie's supporters to only the fringe lefties, and college kids, that haven't experienced anything too much real in life.
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