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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


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

No. They will drop him.


41 posted on 03/20/2016 11:20:47 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: tatown

It’s why El Rushbo has become as popular as public pay phones. The blast wave detonated by the Trump campaign blew lots of masks off.


42 posted on 03/20/2016 11:22:14 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: rineaux
"heh heh heh heh, I'm hunting for VOTERS!!!"

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43 posted on 03/20/2016 11:23:20 AM PDT by mkjessup (Ted Cruz - what a colossal and tragic disappointment. "Cruz is lozin' it" - JimRob (exact quote))
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Internal polling from a Cruz super pac. Yeah those are some seriously trustworthy numbers there. /s


44 posted on 03/20/2016 11:24:10 AM PDT by tatown (Cruznoccio - A Washington DC Production)
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To: Catsrus
I love early voting. You have to be sure of who you are supporting. If you're not going to change your mind, then there is no reason not to.

If your candidate drops out, then you supported a dud.

45 posted on 03/20/2016 11:24:14 AM PDT by TontoKowalski
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To: silverleaf

Ya get one corrupt Bush on board, and you got the entire dynasty behind ya. Trust me.


46 posted on 03/20/2016 11:24:17 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: PrairieDawg

Are you saying that Trump gave the $700,000 to Soros to give to Kasich? You are so delusional. Kasich is there to ensure a brokered convention for Yebbie or Mitt. And you play along.


47 posted on 03/20/2016 11:24:38 AM PDT by nclaurel
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To: PrairieDawg

Absolute nonsense ...where is your proof ?


48 posted on 03/20/2016 11:25:47 AM PDT by Neu Pragmatist (Stop the GOPe and DIMS ...Defeat Cruz, Levin, Beck, Romney - Vote Trump)
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To: Innovative

Cruz has a great message for just a portion of his party. It is telling that his only hope is to cast himself as the antiTrump to try to expand his voters.

Those voters have heard Cruz many times already and not bought what he’s selling. Even a large number of evangelicals didn’t buy.


49 posted on 03/20/2016 11:26:51 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
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To: nclaurel
My theory is that Kasich is there to insure Cruz doesn't win. I think he and Trump are in cahoots, and a deal has already been struck.
50 posted on 03/20/2016 11:26:54 AM PDT by TontoKowalski
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To: TornadoAlley3
"Cruz is out of money."

Yes, he's running on fumes and small loans.

His campaign expenses this cycle have already surpassed those of Bush. Feet on the ground costs an enormous sum of money.

Money wasted.

51 posted on 03/20/2016 11:26:59 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Innovative

I think Cruz thinks if the GOPe hands him the nomination, it means they want him to win

I think it is tantamount to letting Ted run against Hillary only to be hung out , legally gutted and bankrupted and run out if politics by an onslaught of democrat lawsuits, ( aka being “ “ Palinized”)

Here Ted, catch this hot potato !
And buh bye Ya loser. Good riddance
Signed, your” friends’ in the Senate and House


52 posted on 03/20/2016 11:27:59 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: LS; All
You mean some of you are still supporting Romney and McCain? Cause that’s who your boy is in bed with. Shame.

See my new tagline FRiend.


53 posted on 03/20/2016 11:29:14 AM PDT by mkjessup (A vote for CRUZ is a vote for ROMNEY, BUSH, GRAHAM, McCAIN & GOPe. Are you CruzBots effin' KWAZY?!?)
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To: dragnet2

Exactly right ...talk radio will never be the same after most of them have outed themselves and walked the plank for the GOPe ...Levin , Beck, and Rush ...Hannity has been smart , he has stayed as neutral as possible


54 posted on 03/20/2016 11:29:21 AM PDT by Neu Pragmatist (Stop the GOPe and DIMS ...Defeat Cruz, Levin, Beck, Romney - Vote Trump)
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To: Neu Pragmatist

Don’t forget Laura Ingraham.


55 posted on 03/20/2016 11:30:40 AM PDT by tatown (Cruznoccio - A Washington DC Production)
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To: Neu Pragmatist

There is no proof. Some of these folks cough up comments like an involuntary burps. It just comes out without thought or warning.

Tokyo Rose would be proud of some of this BS.


56 posted on 03/20/2016 11:30:42 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: proust

Forgive my ignorance, but how does such an event occur when there is a prohibition on direct coordination?


57 posted on 03/20/2016 11:31:52 AM PDT by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: rineaux
Trump take down photo giphy_zps37xxmm86.gif
58 posted on 03/20/2016 11:32:38 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Mariner
Yes, he's running on fumes and small loans.

But he's the GOPe, Wall Street, Globalist, Illuminati candidate. He should be swimming in money.

59 posted on 03/20/2016 11:32:40 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tatown

You are right ...she has been wonderful...Savage was all in for Trump from the beginning ...I think Savage has one of the best shows out there


60 posted on 03/20/2016 11:33:55 AM PDT by Neu Pragmatist (Stop the GOPe and DIMS ...Defeat Cruz, Levin, Beck, Romney - Vote Trump)
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