[ilgipper]

I read some time ago that Cruz, in one of his first moves as senator, greased skids in Wisconsin, with Scott Walker, Paul Ryan and Reince Priebus before Cruz ever announced. Cruz arrived in the US Senate and went right to work buying strategy and Establishment politicians in all the right places. That’s politics, and this event should probably come as no surprise.

Yeah, just ignore all the facts of the past four years of conflict between the party insiders and Cruz and believe that. Good gravy.

Cruz had the entire party lined up against him throughout his primary race and while in the Senate. If he is so brilliant as to have simply bought off Wisconsin politicians three years ago for the anticipation that at this exact moment he could win a specific state deep in the primaries and pull victory out of defeat, then he deserves everyone's respect for his historically unmatched strategizing.

[Steelfish]

Trumpkins are hard to reason with.

[Solson]

Dude. They don’t LIKE the man. That doesn’t make him an outsider. It’s makes him unlikable.

[Theodore R.]

Cruz lost in SC: he has hardly rebounded since then; with TX and UT somewhat expected.