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Is Cruz already too late to stop Trump?
Politico ^ | March 20, 2016 | Shane Goldmacher |

Posted on 03/20/2016 11:00:29 AM PDT by Innovative

Arizona's primary is Tuesday, but more than half the ballots have already been cast — including for candidates who've left the race.

By the time Ted Cruz arrived Friday at the tiny border town of Douglas for his first Arizona event of 2016, he was already too late for the hundreds of thousands of Republicans who had already voted.

Election day is still two days away in Arizona but well more than half of Republicans expected to vote in the state’s Tuesday primary have already cast their ballots — complicating Cruz's attempts overtake Donald Trump as both make a late push for the state’s lucrative, winner-take-all prize of 58 delegates.

“A candidate cannot win Arizona if they don’t do well in early balloting,” said Nathan Sproul, an Arizona Republican strategist who had served as co-chair for Marco Rubio’s campaign in the state.

Arizona has among the most robust early-voting programs in the country. In Maricopa, the state’s largest county, early voters in 2016 comprise already nearly 90 percent of the county’s total GOP turnout four years ago.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: cruz; elections; gopprimary; trump
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To: All; Innovative

The very, very Politico hopes Trump wins, because they know Trump is a liberl Dem.

“..Trumps spent nearly $50,000 to elect congressional Democrats, they donated only $1,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRSC)....”

more http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/03/donald-trump-donated-heavily-to-democrats-especially-during-election-which-put-reid-and-pelosi-in-power/


101 posted on 03/20/2016 12:21:51 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: mouse1
Typical Trumpkin - You can't refute the statement, so you go off on a tangent. Just like Trump, who can never give a straight answer to a question, so he filibusters and obfuscates...

Look, chances are now very high that we are going to have an open convention. So we will get to see if Trump is the great dealmaker he claims to be after the delegates are released after the first ballot. My prediction? If he doesn't get enough to win on the first ballot, he doesn't win period.

102 posted on 03/20/2016 12:22:02 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Innovative

Cruz needs to run for president not “Trump Stopper”.


103 posted on 03/20/2016 12:23:26 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: rineaux

I keep seeing Stabby the Clown as a really frumpy, seedy lawn jockey or garden gnome in that costume.


104 posted on 03/20/2016 12:25:54 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (That giant flushing sound is the New Whirled Order, going down the tubes.)
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To: proust

SplatTED


105 posted on 03/20/2016 12:28:00 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (That giant flushing sound is the New Whirled Order, going down the tubes.)
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To: TontoKowalski
"I still think Cruz will win Utah. Fealty to a [LDS] church leader (Romney) will carry the day."Oy vey.
106 posted on 03/20/2016 12:29:34 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (#Getbackinthebackofthebus)
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To: EDINVA

Unless they’re planning on stealing AZ. Half the people have already voted so Ted is late to the party. McCain is fighting to keep his rusty ole seat, again.


107 posted on 03/20/2016 12:35:19 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Starstruck

Right now, the only five dollar hooker on the scene is BusTed.

Sad how far so many of you have fallen you’ll let Glenn Beck proclaim him a prophet and not bat an eyelash, then get in bed with Romney and McLame.


108 posted on 03/20/2016 12:37:43 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Innovative

Yes.


109 posted on 03/20/2016 12:38:12 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: Innovative

Cruz NEVER had a chance. It’s not strategy, it’s the phony candidate. Trump is a better candidate. Trump has a better message. Trump is self funding. Trump doesn’t have crazy Glenn Beck hanging around his neck. Trump doesn’t have that LOSER Mitt Romney dragging him down. Trump doesn’t have that loser Lindsay Graham helping him out.

Trump, a part time Presbyterian, is winning the evangelical vote over the Dominionist, Seven Mountain radical, holier than thou, son of a preacher man.

NOW, you ask if it’s already too late for Cruz?

IT WAS ALWAYS TOO LATE.


110 posted on 03/20/2016 12:38:51 PM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: rineaux

What kind of fast was he on? The KFC fast?

Pray America wakes


111 posted on 03/20/2016 12:39:20 PM PDT by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
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To: CA Conservative

Typical Cruz supporter. Ready to throw a temper tantrum and hand the nomination to the GOPe just because his chosen candidate can’t win the nomination.

Guess what Skippy—if the convention goes past the first ballot, Cruz won’t win the nomination either.


112 posted on 03/20/2016 12:40:34 PM PDT by Velvet_Jones
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To: LS

It is beyond stunning LS.


113 posted on 03/20/2016 12:42:36 PM PDT by tatown (Cruznoccio - A Washington DC Production)
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To: Innovative

Yep, Cruz is bitter and just playing a spoiler roll now. The Canadian should just drop out. If not, Trump will still win it. Then the fun begins!


114 posted on 03/20/2016 12:43:07 PM PDT by patq (Cruz is an all talk, no action Senator/lawyer with no executive experience...just like Obama)
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To: tatown

Rush is not an idiot. At times he seems to think his audience is, however.


115 posted on 03/20/2016 12:46:19 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (That giant flushing sound is the New Whirled Order, going down the tubes.)
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To: silverleaf

I think the plan is to broker Willard as the nominee, add VP Felito as a sop to the Consistently Credulous Conservatives, and that they think this patch up retread of 2012 Part 2 will work this time. A Willard Cruz ticket will be twice as alienating as 2012.


116 posted on 03/20/2016 12:53:36 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (That giant flushing sound is the New Whirled Order, going down the tubes.)
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To: Psalm 144

So he’s simply pushing the idea that Cruz can still win just to block Trump?


117 posted on 03/20/2016 12:53:40 PM PDT by tatown (Cruznoccio - A Washington DC Production)
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To: tacticalogic

No one likes or trusts him. He will be on a tight per diem allowance, and have to sit up and beg for treats.


118 posted on 03/20/2016 12:55:32 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (That giant flushing sound is the New Whirled Order, going down the tubes.)
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To: EDINVA

One of his close aides has said that Cruz will pull an upset on Trump in AZ because of his ‘ground game,’ no doubt quietly aided by McCain. Not sure why he has been so relatively quiet about this election. Not like him at all.

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I think Trump took him out early with his statement about liking people who weren’t prisoners. Songbird has never had a spotlight put on some of the POW rumors out there.


119 posted on 03/20/2016 12:58:20 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (That giant flushing sound is the New Whirled Order, going down the tubes.)
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To: Psalm 144
Well, don't forget Raphael always has a Plan -B- for after he's laughed out of politics...

Man Jumps in Front of a Car ! Insurance Fraud


120 posted on 03/20/2016 1:03:51 PM PDT by Veracious Poet (Trump 2016 - Let's make America great again!)
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