CRUZ STAFFER GOES ROGUE: “Campaign Is Done… He Cannot Win the Nomination”

Gateway Pundit ^ | 02/23/16 | Jim Hoft

[Enlightened1]

Breaking— CRUZ CAMPAIGN STAFFER SAYS CAMPAIGN IS DONE —

A Ted Cruz campaign staffer today told CNN the campaign is done. “His Campaign is done.”

“The Cruz campaign has to focus on getting basic campaign techniques right,” said a Republican operative who works for the presidential campaign, who asked not to be identified. “I don’t think Cruz can win the nomination at this point. I think his campaign is done.”

Cruz took a huge blow on Saturday after he could not win a single county in South Carolina, a state with an enormous evangelical vote.

[Georgia Girl 2]

The horse has died but Teddy just hasn’t gotten off yet.

[ExSoldier]

Yeah, Trump has as his campaign motto the famous line uttered by Richard Crenna as COL Troutman in First Blood on how Rambo fought in Vietnam: Winning by ATTRITION.

[austinaero]

Out of 16 individuals listed at site below, only 3 are listed as having been with Cruz during his Senate campaign.

Another interesting note,,Cruz’s campaign Finance Chairman works FOR Goldman Sachs AND is a donor.

Willie Langston: Langston has worked for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and is a co-founder of Avalon Advisors.[5] He is a Cruz donor as well as Cruz’s campaign finance chairman.

https://ballotpedia.org/Ted_Cruz_presidential_campaign_key_staff_and_advisors,_2016

[austinaero]

What?

Wasn’t Carson Christian enough?

[spacejunkie2001]

“You really think that everyone who identifies as an Evangelical is Republican?”

so true...look at the black community. FULL of church goin’ libs who love to worship at the feet of odumbo and kill their babies.

[Travis T. OJustice]

It’s too bad he’s not going to make it, huh? He has come across as unlikable, for whatever reasons, to too many. Perceived likability means a lot to voters, as we’ve seen the last two elections. Style over substance.

[katieanna]

“Ted has a pretty narrow appeal - mostly on the staunchly conservative, Christian, Anglo, right. There’s no buzz for him in any other quarters of the voting public.”
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Not so. Cruz won 17-29 year olds decisively in S. Carolina. He also won among people for whom the Supreme Court, national security and ‘shares my values’ are uppermost to them.

[FreeReign]

Trump had overwhelming support in this state in all voter categories.

He had the majority of the Republican voter support.

32% isn't overwhelming and it's a plurality not a majority.

[mmichaels1970]

I regard the Democrats as one group, and the independents as another. I think Trump got the lion's share of vote from both Democrats *AND* Independents.

I would agree. He also outperformed in just about every other demographic.

Even if the level of dems were large, we have to keep in mind that in voting in the GOP primary, these folks lost their ability to vote in the DEM primary. They have no say in whether Hillary or Bernie wins. So if they crossed party lines to vote in the primary, my guess is that most of them truly intend to vote that way come November.

There truly may be some big block of crossover dems. But I think you'd find most Trump supporters would admit that they believe Trump is going to go out in November and take over blocks of voters that nobody in the GOP thought possible in this political generation.

Once Hillary or Bernie actually TAKES the nomination (assuming it is early enough), then I can see more of the possibility of an "operation chaos" scenario developing.

[kabar]

Based on my personal experience, some do, some don’t.

[skeeter]

Yeah it is a shame. I guess it'll take another Reagan.

BTW Trump has his own likability issues as well, if the polls are to be believed. It'll be interesting to see if he can overcome them.

[Iscool]

Cruz never had any issues until he began to attack Trump. That was his biggest mistake.

And he just kept going, and going, and going...Demolishing an almost assured position as Trump's V.P., in my opinion...

[mmichaels1970]

It isn't Cruz's appeal that I expect would win him the election. It's the fact that Hillary is such a horrible witch, and has such an awful background, that once all her scandals start coming out, people will remember how much they hate her.

Right on! That's why I believe that pretty much every GOP candidate can beat her except for Bush (as the last names would level the playing field).

[Let's Roll]

“Unknown sources” and this thing has almost 300 comments right now ??

[BlueNgold]

Please post data to support your claim that it is crossover voters that allowed a Trump win in SC.

Trump won among republicans with 32%. This made up 76% of the primary vote. In a closed primary he would have won.

Trump won among independents with 33%. Rubio was second among independent voters, that is largely where he passed Cruz. Ind did more to help Rubio than they did Trump. Ind were 22% of the primary vote.

Registered dems made up only 2% of the GOP primary and didt not affect who won. They may have influenced some of the down ballot positioning.

Analysis of the actual numbers shows the dem vote did not affect the final SC results.

If you have actual hard data to the contrary please ping me.

[Vaquero]

Big military presence in SC. They repeatedly vote for Linda Graham because he is a ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ JAG in the AF. This seems to be the states prime mover though evangelicals are strong.

[glorgau]

Disgruntled ex-employee is the phrase to use here.

[kabar]

You don't register by party in SC. If you look at the exit polls, you will see the broad appeal of Trump. He did the best among Republicans, Independents, veterans, the somewhat conservative and a strong second among the very conservative. He won the White evangelical or white born-again Christians and all age groups. He had the highest among both men and women.

You can discount the data for whatever reason. You may even think that Trump really didn't win the popular vote by 75,000 votes over his nearest competitor. You seem to have a hard time accepting reality.

[mmichaels1970]

"Unknown sources" and this thing has almost 300 comments right now ??

Yes. But in fairness, most are just talking about the SC primary and associated demographics without much emphasis on the intent of the original post.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Fair dinkum mate, he does. He’s managed to cut that in a third as I have read, something tells me he can do better. I don’t see Killary having any chance ti oncrease her totals, there is no excitement for her, and Mr. Used Depends will be just a footnote by November.