House GOP leader sees two-person race between Trump, Rubio [Trump's rise like Schwarzenegger's]

The Hill ^ | February 22, 2016 | Jesse Byrnes

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Ted Cruz never was a Canadian citizen.

What ((squirrel)) spin!

While Canada may have recognized Ted Cruz as eligible for citizenship, Cruz has been an American since birth.

Now with Marco Rubio, the LDS (Mormon) church still recognizes him as a member since he never went through the formal process to become an apostate (and he's banking on levering their support and his family connections in the LDS church to help his numbers in Nevada).

[KeyLargo]

Washington Wire

Marco Rubio Picks Up ‘Establishment’ Backers as GOP Field Narrows

By Beth Reinhard

and Rebecca Ballhaus
Feb 21, 2016 6:24 pm ET

Norm Coleman is free Thursday after all. The former Republican senator from Minnesota was supposed to co-host a fundraiser for Jeb Bush, but the former Florida governor on Saturday gave up his bid for the GOP nomination after a limp finish in the South Carolina primary. Now Mr. Coleman - who originally backed South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham before he quit the race in December — is throwing his support to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

Virginia Republican fundraiser Bobbie Kilberg, who joined Mr. Bush’s camp last week, said nine donors reached out Sunday morning to say that if she backed Mr. Rubio, they would, too.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/02/21/marco-rubio-picks-up-establishment-backers-as-gop-field-narrows/

[ASA Vet]

What?

You don't believe that the very intelligent lawyer didn't know?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I read everything I post.

McCarthy is a snake.

Look how he helped Hillary.

[McGruff]

The sooner Cruz gets out of the race the better. He has no path to the nomination anymore. Just allowing Rubio to gain on Trump.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

[We need Cruz in senate. Hope he can keep his seat. ]

Cruz’s outcome in the Texas primary will be a big indicator if he keeps his seat or not.

[Durbin]

Schwarzenegger was one of the worst governors California’s had in the last 50 years. And that’s saying a lot. Comparing Trump to him is not a very good thing if you are expecting him to be a good President.

[jospehm20]

No, I do not.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Schwarzenegger was one of the worst governors California's had in the last 50 years. And that's saying a lot. Comparing Trump to him is not a very good thing if you are expecting him to be a good President.

Exactly!

[lodi90]

An FR thread/comment made a similar observation last evening: The race could come down to Trump/anti-illegals vs. Rubio/pro-amnesty.

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Yep. Rubio is solidifying 2nd place with Yeb dropping out and picking up endorsements like Romney. The only question now is if 3rd place Cruz will play spoiler and peel off enough conservatives from Trump to give the nom to the GOPe.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

[Ted Cruz never was a Canadian citizen]

This is completely FALSE!!

Cruz had dual US/Canadian citizenship. He renounced the Canadian citizenship only the past year or two after the media leaked it.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

"......Anyway, the factional nature of Trump's support reveals itself when you start looking at the overall vote totals and percentages. He's now at 31.9% of the popular vote, a strong lead by traditional standards but still a ways from the 45% level where frontrunners start to pull away, and the sooner the last two candidates stuck in single digits (Kasich and Carson) face reality, the sooner Rubio and/or Cruz can start consolidating the two-thirds of GOP voters who have yet to follow his flag:

Trump got crushed with the 37% of voters looking for a "shares my values" candidate (Cruz-Rubio-Trump 37-27-8), and the 15% who wanted a "win in November" candidate (Rubio-Trump-Cruz 47-21-17), so those are the pitches that are working best against him (note that this is a much better result on 'electability' for Rubio than in New Hampshire or Iowa); where both Cruz and Rubio need to work at Trump is the 31% of "can bring needed change" voters, who went 45-19-16 Trump-Cruz-Rubio.

While Trump's win looks big, it's actually the second-smallest margin of victory ever in the South Carolina Republican primary (to McCain in 2008) and the smallest percentage of the vote for a winner, and Trump got fewer actual votes than Newt Gingrich did in 2012 or McCain in a losing effort in 2000:".............................. Source

[joesbucks]

What’s going to be interesting if Trump prevails how Cruz will support or obstruct Trump as a Senator. Especially since Trump can’t fire him.

[Just mythoughts]

Why did Cruz renounce his Canadian citizenship, if he was not A Canadian citizen? His birth certificate says he is a Natural born Canadian citizen.. He has yet to show US how he got an US passport.

[Hattie]

Texans knew he was Canadian before he was elected to the Senate. TX has a huge GOPe bunch that did everything but murder to try to get rid of Cruz. His win was grass roots conservatives here. Cruz is our kind of guy here. Don’t move here please unless you believe in conservative principles. We don’t need any more RINOs or Libs.

[jospehm20]

Why did Cruz renounce his Canadian citizenship in 2014 if he never had it? Cruz was born in Canada and was NBC Canadian until he was 43 years old. Canada did not recognize dual citizenship at that time. Cruz was undoubtedly a Canadian NBC at birth.

[stocksthatgoup]

So you will be voting Rubio

[Liz]

TX oughta dump Cruz and elect another Conservative. Cruz is just too
weird and creepy. I don/t trust him. Seems that is not the minority opinion.

Cruz is looking more and more like the late unlamented prez candidate,
ex-Texas Gov Rick Perry---two stealth candidates trusting Texans hardly knew.

At first, Cruz (like Perry) looked good....prez material, even. Then candidate Cruz (like Perry) began admitting things that trusting Texans knew nothing about.

Perry shocked his constituents when he admitted in a debate that he was using trusting Texans tax dollars to give illegals in-state tuition. Perry also installed the country's first Sharia Court in Texas....active to this day.

Cruz heaped on the surprises:

<><> I didn't know I was a Canadian citizen when I ran for the Senate until the media exposed it.

<><> I told trusting Texas voters wifey and I were liquidating family assets so I could get into the Senate.

<><> I didnt know I was supposed to tell the FEC I borrowed over a million from my Wall Street margin accounts to fund my campaign.

<><> I told Mark Levin the borrowed funds were used for campaign ads....but I didn't report this as required.

<><> And so on and so forth, ad infinitum, ad nauseaum.

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BACKSTORY Cruz/s Senate election fairy tale has become legendary......portraying himself to trusting Texans as a scrappy populist putting everything on the line to overcome a wealthy establishment opponent.

He was whining in the media, telling trusting Texans that he, and his faithful little wife (a $700,000 globalist lawyer employed by G/S), were forced to liquidate their entire family savings (of slightly more than $1 million) to fuel a come-from-behind win in the Republican primary.

NOW TRUSTING TEXANS LEARN Cruz did not liquidate family assets.....he got his hands on over a million dollars from his hefty margin accounts at G/S and Citibank......and did not disclose this on FEC reports (to keep it a secret from trusting Texans).

Cruz did not disclose loans on FEC reports (required by law) b/c Texans would have discovered he was not the aw-shucks rube he pretended to be. He continued the rube act in order to milk votes from trusting Texans.

At the same time, he also did not disclose he was a dual Canadian citizen......the Harvard-educated lawyer w/ two Ivy League degrees said he didn't know. When the Dallas Morning News published his Canadian birth certificate, Cruz put trusting Texans through the charade of renouncing his Canadian citizenship.....even though Canada did not recognize dual citizenship at that time.

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Cruz (like Perry) didn't know when to keep his mouth shut. Political blunders piled up ... it was one disaster after another. The dumb moves made will be required learning.... what not to do...... for any candidate!

[jospehm20]

I knew Cruz was born in Canada. I did not know he’s was still a Canadian citizen when he ran in 2012. Nobody I know knew that at the time.

[AndyJackson]

his weeks alter identity for Trump is swartzenegger...it’s a different one every week...stay tuned.

Trump is Trump and no one else's man. Always has been.