Come on.
Basically the only elections that Cruz has won, are the closed Caucus states.
When all the people actually had a chance to vote, they overwhelmingly selected Trump. In virtually every single state.
Cruz won in Texas (his own state) and Oklahoma (next door). There was one other state which was an actual election.
But otherwise all the states in which people actually held a vote, Trump won.
That is not ‘strength’ indicated, for the fall, showing in Cruz’ history.
That just shows, he can win caucuses. Which means he can win, where the GOP structure is strongest.
Trump has been winning where people actually vote.
Consistently.
And he will also pick-up quite a lot of democrats, who are sick and tired of everyone selling out our own country.
Go Trump. :D
You appear to be clueless as to how the nominating process works.
Various parties of somewhat like-minded voters choose a candidate to be put on the ballot under their party’s name. Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Whigs, whatever.
Members of each party choose their own candidate. The general electorate does not. It is not the business of Democrats to vote in Republican primaries and thus help choose the Republican nominee. The general electorate votes in November, each voter getting a free choice from among those whom the various parties have put forward.
Parties are not democracies. They make their own rules. If you’re not a member of a party, you really shouldn’t get a say in who that party nominates. Would a Methodist church pick a preacher for the Baptists down the street?
Some states make it easy to become a party member or switch registrations, even up to the day of the primary, but that’s become a polluted process. And some states, strangely, allow members of one party to vote in another party’s primary, or nominating process. That is odd, but if it’s the rule, it’s the rule.
Closed primary states are merely those in which the party allows only party members to choose its nominee, which is a rather logical way to go about the process.
“Open” primaries are a bit like letting Mexican nationals vote in US elections. We all know that shouldn’t happen, right?
So maybe you should re-think the idea that there’s something wrong with letting Republican party voters chose their candidate in “closed” states. Surely you don’t favor letting Democrats cross over and influence the process.
Or do you?