Posted on 02/10/2016 10:42:37 AM PST by justlittleoleme
"You cannot beat Donald Trump coming from the left," Cruz told reporters here before a rally. "You see more moderate candidates standing on the debate stage and saying, 'Gosh, Donald, we need more amnesty. Gosh, Donald, don't be so tough on radical Islamic terrorism.' That's not going to work."
"The only way to beat Donald Trump is to highlight the simple truth of his record," Cruz added. "It is not conservative."
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After coming in first in the Iowa caucuses, Cruz finished a distant third behind Trump on Tuesday night in New Hampshire, though he joked he deserves the same credit Marco Rubio got a week earlier for beating expectations in Iowa.
"I am looking forward to a week of wall-to-wall coverage on Fox News of the impressive third-place finish," Cruz said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
(Excerpt) Read more at texastribune.org ...
66,000. Ted lost to Trump by 66,000 votes in NH. That shows me that Ted lost bad.
140,000 to 83,000. That tells me Trump has 57,000 more votes than Ted so far.
36-20. That’s Trump’s lead in SC before the NH results. That tells me Cruz is a decided underdog.
Tell me again Ted how you can beat Trump??
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Teddy must have some dirty trick in mind.
LOL, another holier-than-thou Trumpster. You do realize you support the most vulgar, insulting person to ever run for the presidency?
You need to be educated and stop posting propaganda.
I still believe Trump’s campaign will collapse due to his poor financing of his campaign, just like it did in Iowa (in addition to skipping the debate, another “brilliant” move moronically praised by the sycophantic Trumpeteers). So much for Trump’s vaunted “economic genius.”
NH is liberal. 40% voted RINO, 35% populist and the rest conservative/other.
The evangelical and strong conservative percentages in SC match IA.
Trump hit his 35% ceiling in liberal NH, which doesn’t bode very well for him, since he outperforms the rest of the field in the moderate/liberal category.
And how come economic genius Trump, who we were constantly told could not be outspent by his opponents, let himself be outspent in Iowa?
I didn’t catch the exact line. Did Kasich say:
“Gosh, Donald, we need more amnesty.”?
Or did Kasich say:
“Gosh, Donald, don’t be so tough on radical Islamic terrorism.”?
Frankly, that is one of THE most error laden, specious, patently ridiculous post, in FR's history!
Thomas Jefferson, Burr, the entire WHIG party and Andy Jackson, and LBJ, to name but a very few, were vulgar, insulting, down in the gutter DIRTY pols EVER !
CNN wrote the article, why don’t you talk to them?
I could give a rat’s butt what your opinion is of anything....
So what percentage of the US today is evangelical and ultra conservative???? So what chance do you REALLY believe Cruz has in the general!!! I realize you WANT to believe the country WOULD support a Cruz candidate but that is just NOT reality TODAY!!!!!
That is an opinion, not necessarily or automatically interchangeable with absolute fact.
If trump’s “negatives” are so important how could he blow out NH??
NH is liberal. 40% voted RINO, 35% populist and the rest conservative/other.
The evangelical and strong conservative percentages in SC match IA.
Trump hit his 35% ceiling in liberal NH, which doesn’t bode very well for him, since he outperforms the rest of the field in the moderate/liberal category.
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If Cruz is such a match with SC voters way is Trump way ahead in the polls? Also Bush will be taking a lot of votes in SC. Look for a strong win by Trump, followed by Cruz & Bush.
I don’t think so. Something about Cruz that I just don’t trust.
Enter the Donald, Take Two - 2011
How will the Trump 2012 presidential campaign explain the Trump 2000 presidential campaign?
"We must have universal healthcare," wrote Trump. "I'm a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by healthcare expenses."
The goal of health care reform, wrote Trump, should be a system that looks a lot like Canada. "Doctors might be paid less than they are now, as is the case in Canada, but they would be able to treat more patients because of the reduction in their paperwork," he writes.
The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans. There are fewer medical lawsuits, less loss of labor to sickness, and lower costs to companies paying for the medical care of their employees. If the program were in place in Massachusetts in 1999 it would have reduced administrative costs by $2.5 million. We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing.
I think it is outrageous that they are going to use statements when these other idiots have literally destroyed our country. I’ll take my chances on a successful business person then every idiot running right now that has ruined our great country. Cruz has had some disastrous votes that has definitely caused our destruction.
Well Teddy you have 9 days to test that theory. :-)
NH is a laughably unrepresentative state. It’s one of the most liberal, non-religious in the country.
No Republican can win the presidency without firing up the religious Christian right as a key component of their base. See Reagan and Bush. Cruz appeals to the whole traditional Reagan coalition. Trump is similar to Romney but with even less appeal due to not firing up Mormons and turning people off with his vulgarity and past character flaws.
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