Very good article. But I disagree with the Cruz can win. I don’t think so. And I am desperate to keep Clinton out of the White House. If Cruz wins the nomination I am l in for him. But it scares the crap out of me. He has a much harder path. A real long shot.
He has a much harder path. A real long shot.
Quite frankly, any Pub candidate will have a hard time changing the Electoral College map...
He will have to sweep Ohio, Florida, and Virginia, as well as some other smaller tossup, like Iowa...
Republicans have to determine who is best positioned to do that, and vote for him/her...to do otherwise is, well, counterproductive...
It will be a hard path in the sense that everything will be thrown at Cruz, but I don’t buy the MSM/dem/conventional wisdom theory that a conservative can’t win the general.
The moderates are the ones with a terrible track record of losing the general.
First off, welcome to Free Republic.
Second, don't buy into the media spin that Cruz can't win. He has never been treated fairly by the media and when people start to learn about how he tried to help his sister and her son people will see he is not the "bad guy" that those who fear him try to make him out to be. He is not liked in DC because he will change things. When he went to the Senate he didn't join the "old boys club" and they hate him for it.
I love him for it!
Trump is the one who consistently is destroyed by Clinton in the polls. Cruz beats her. Worst yet for Trump:
Cruz has more support among blacks and Hispanics (!), contrary to Drudge’s legend.
The regions were Trump does best against Democrats relative to Cruz are all regions where there won’t be much of a battle anyway: New York, California, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Illinois, and New Hampshire. Of those, only New Hampshire is purple. Cruz, on the other hand, performs better in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado and Minnesota. Of those, only Minnesota isn’t purple... and Cruz actually could win it!