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Cruz: I didn't attack Trump earlier to avoid becoming 'roadkill'
Politico ^

Posted on 03/25/2016 1:25:30 AM PDT by springwater13

Ted Cruz didn’t attack Donald Trump early in the cycle because others who had “ended up as roadkill.”

In an interview with Wisconsin's Charlie Sykes of WTMJ, the Texas senator was pressed about his earlier fawning statements about Trump, including a tweet from December that said he wouldn’t engage with Trump because the billionaire businessman was “terrific.”

“What took you so long?” WTMJ asked, referring to Cruz's now full-throated attacks on Trump.

“It was a wonderfully diverse, talented, dynamic, young field. It had really incredible talent. If you look at a number of the candidates that took on Donald Trump early on, they ended up as roadkill,” Cruz said in the Wednesday interview, which was first reported by BuzzFeed News.

Cruz said the strategy all along was to first build up a strong core of support before directly taking on Donald. “And not be roadkill,” Cruz added. “I am very strongly committed on the anti-roadkill approach.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2nddivisionvet; cru; cubanmistresscrisis; elections; lyingted; trump; weaksister
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1 posted on 03/25/2016 1:25:30 AM PDT by springwater13
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OMG this guy is such a beta male.. pathetic


2 posted on 03/25/2016 1:27:32 AM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: Lib-Lickers 2

So you’ll vote for Hillary if he’s the nominee?


3 posted on 03/25/2016 1:29:05 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Glenn & Ted - They're really CLOSE - Getty Image

4 posted on 03/25/2016 1:29:18 AM PDT by onyx (You're here posting, so sign-up to DONATE MONTHLY!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

oh hell no I’ll vote for Cruz if he pulls it off,, it’s either Cruz, Trump or nothing.. right?


5 posted on 03/25/2016 1:30:48 AM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: Lib-Lickers 2

I don’t see anyone else on the horizon that is acceptable.


6 posted on 03/25/2016 1:32:27 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'm not voting for Cruz the Fraud.

Cruz somehow pulls off the nomination, it goes to Hillary anyway.

And the so called republican elite will be happy as hell!

7 posted on 03/25/2016 1:33:55 AM PDT by rineaux (It's not a lie, it's Ted Truth.)
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This guy is pathetic....a contemporary Uriah Heep-—always plotting and planning to get in good w/ his betters.

Problem is EVERBODY is better than Cruz.


8 posted on 03/25/2016 1:34:48 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

YEP..


9 posted on 03/25/2016 1:35:47 AM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: rineaux

Yet you Trumpets demand that we swear to vote for Don Trump? Hilarious!


10 posted on 03/25/2016 1:36:38 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: springwater13

Trump’s spokesperson was one of the Cruz sex victims (if that is the right word) it seems. So Trump knew all along.

Trump had a trump card all along. Maybe that is why Cruz went easy on Trump from the start because he knew Trump knew?

And maybe why Trump did not bother to attack Cruz so he held back his ace card like a boss.

Trump let Cruz portray himself holier than thou to electorate so when the revelation ever came it would be devastating.


11 posted on 03/25/2016 1:39:55 AM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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Show me where I've written to you to swear to vote for Trump?

You cannot because I haven't.

Cruz is a lying fraud and you know it.

12 posted on 03/25/2016 1:42:44 AM PDT by rineaux (It's not a lie, it's Ted Truth.)
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To: springwater13

“And not be roadkill,” Cruz added.

Too late.


13 posted on 03/25/2016 1:44:09 AM PDT by Helicondelta
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I didn’t say rineaux, I said Trumpets, and believe me, it has happened many times.


14 posted on 03/25/2016 1:45:06 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: springwater13
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Funny

15 posted on 03/25/2016 1:46:02 AM PDT by rineaux (It's not a lie, it's Ted Truth.)
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To: springwater13

It wasn’t in the script.


16 posted on 03/25/2016 1:48:32 AM PDT by Califreak (Madeleine Albright says I'm going to hell. Cruz' dad called me an infidel. Long live the Uniparty!)
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Read what you wrote.

You responded to me and you implied "you" Trumpets.

I really don't care who you support, never have. Yes, the you implies you 2ndDivionVet.

More on this site have switched from Cruz to Trump because they are seeing Cruz for the big lying fraud that he is.

17 posted on 03/25/2016 1:54:17 AM PDT by rineaux (It's not a lie, it's Ted Truth.)
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-- I didn't say rineaux, I said Trumpets --

What you posted to rineax was ...

Yet you Trumpets demand that we swear to vote for Don Trump? Hilarious!

Which I found ironic/hilarious for a separate reason, that reason being that you just previously asked somebody else if they would vote for Hillary, which comes off as a demand for fealty to the Republican party.

18 posted on 03/25/2016 1:57:18 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

So you think Free Republic should get behind Hillary Clinton?


19 posted on 03/25/2016 2:00:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: springwater13

Well, he sure IS roadkill now; so he should stop digging.


20 posted on 03/25/2016 2:02:05 AM PDT by nopardons
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