Posted on 03/11/2016 2:17:57 PM PST by drewh
Ted Cruz accused Republican front-runner Donald Trump of taking advantage of 'angry, low-information voters.'
“Listen, Donald does well with voters who have relatively low information, who are not that engaged and who are angry and they see him as an angry voice,” Cruz told “The Brody File” in an interview conducted Wednesday and published Thursday.
Cruz, who has racked up wins in Idaho, Maine and Kansas in the past week, said his campaign performs better among informed, engaged voters.
“When they inform themselves, they realize his record,” Cruz said. “He’s what they’re angry at. He is the corruption, and if you want someone to stand up to Washington, the only one who has been doing so in this race is me.”
The Texas senator acknowledged Trump has done well in Southeastern states — he’s won Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. But Cruz said his campaign has done well in that pocket of the country, too, often coming in second to the New York billionaire but still picking up delegates.
“Now Donald has a harder problem in the West,” Cruz said. “It’s interesting. I mean, his location, he does well in the Southeast. He does well with a certain demographic of voter. Donald gave a press conference where he said, to quote him, ‘I love the poorly educated.’” Cruz suggested Trump is “taking advantage of his voters because” they’re angry. “I understand what they’re angry about, but, Donald, if you’re angry at the corruption of Washington, you don’t solve it by supporting someone who has been enmeshed in the Washington corruption for 40 years,” he said.
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Trump’s fans ARE thick. They see absolutely no connection with DT’s provokations and the left taking them up on it
You are 100% correct
You can dislike Cruz all you want, it is trump who is a fraud.
Choose who you want, I no longer dare.
Why are you pretending to be a dimwit?
You could not have survived on FR this long if that were the case.
I'd appreciate it if you would cite an example of me drooling over any candidate...or, lacking such evidence, then apologize.
You know, as a gesture of goodwill among senior members.
Newt Gingrich said today he must be a low information voter. Lou Dobbs mentioned the same thing. Ben Carson too.
Leni
Actually, Trump has done quite well among Evangelicals.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/trumps-revolution-from-within/473430/
Evangelicals are a much more diverse thinking group than most people realize.
There is an old joke - it doesn’t fit all lawyers, but it certainly fits some:
What is the difference between a lawyer and a catfish?
One is a bottom feeding, scum sucking scavenger. The other is a fish.
“Politician” can be substituted for “lawyer” above.
(For those who don’t know, blue catfish, flatheads, and most larger channel cats are primarily piscivores.)
I’m so dumb, I still think Natural Born doesn’t mean Chinese-born, Mexico-born, Iran-born, Russian-born or Canadian-born.
If you don’t “dare”, then why did you reply. Incidentally, at this point I see him as a fool heing lead around by his new puppet masters. I thought he was actually much smarter than he has demonstrated lately. So, not only do I find him detestable, but also a “low information” stooge. Try not to care about that too much.
Cretin.
Hard to call it ‘manipulating’ when they’re doing it to themselves with about as much prompting as a talk-show host like Glenn Blech or Limbleaugh. Desperate people will cling to any slender reed. Myself, I’m just hoping if he wins he doesn’t announce his immediate resignation because he was just campaigning for the LOLs.
I think I see the problem. Senator Cruz should have said "IF" as the first word instead of "WHEN", and the statement would be more correct.
"When" could be a very long wait, from the glandular nonsense seen around here. Either that, or we are loaded up with trolls and moles.
That should sew up the sixth grade vote.
So are you saying this gives you warm fuzzies, that you are down with his pretending when the others don't, or what, exactly?
Who brought up menses?
Sheeesh!
I guess it's okay when your guy does it?
THAT'S THE FOUNDATION OF LIBERALISM.
Cruz is a cult leader..his followers are cultist. You’re welcome.
With LIV's the more accurate you are, the more pissy they get.
Well said.
Anyone who is not a card carrying armband sporting hand in the sir Trump supporter is being Alinsky'd off this site by the echo chamber rhetoric. There is too much distortion to even respond to.
Kudos for getting in on the ground floor. In these days of crappy job security, it's nice to have a career.
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