I doubt Cruz would still be standing if the opposition had sent $500 million against him in advertising and had the entire media and establishment against him.
Would Trump be where he is without the perhaps $Billion in free TV face time that he has had over the last 9 months? I don’t think so. That knife cuts both ways and Trump has drawn some of the blood.
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Every candidate had the same opportunity to play the media and get free advertising the way Trump has. The fact is they did not have the brains or the courage to do it.
It is their fault not Trump’s. To claim Trump had an unfair advantage is ridiculous. The other candidates are all donor puppets including Cruz and doing what they are told. They do not have the brains or courage to do what Trump has.
Not guilty - I never claimed it was unfair. He got the coverage. he got some bad press. He benefited from the coverage. The bad press hurts him. That's politics.
Trump was a well-known figure both for his wealth and for his extravagant sexual peccadilloes. He had a reality show that apparently some people watched.
When he did the unexpected thing of running for president, he was a celebrity candidate. He got all the publicity. It was as if George Clooney had declared.
It wasn’t a matter of Trump being smart ... he simply raked in the benefits of being a celebrity. Not a celebrity for particularly good reasons but a celebrity, nonetheless.
Trump had no part in this other than being who he is. Cruz was very little known at the start of the race. The media virtually ignored him ... and still do.
Despite that obstacle, Cruz continued to get votes. He has a good organization and he’s worked hard. He’s also the only conservative running.
The same scenario played out in Texas. Cruz was an outsider when he ran for Senator and the entire Texas political establishment backed his opponent. He won quite handily.
I think he now has the opportunity to do that again.
It’s Trump’s to lose. He either gets the 1237 or he loses.
One big thing that Trump has over any of the politicians he ran against this year and certainly the two that are left standing. He has a pesonality that people are attracted to. Don’t believe these silly polls that show more people disliking him than liking him. His cockiness is because he’s made a fortune and he’s confident in his skin. All truly successful people, no matter what walk of lif, project confidence. Trump a world class CEO, who employees thousands of people. I don’t think I’ve heard yet any former employee that has anything bad to say about him. You don’t think Megyn Kelly has searched far and wide for someone to badmouth him? They all like him. He might be a billionare, but his son son Donald Jr said is best. He said his father was a blue-collar billionare who would rather talk to a construction worker or a cabbie or cop than a bank president. Trump was crawling around under houses at the age of 12 measuring the foundations for buildings his old man was building. Who would you rather have a beer with (if he drank), Donald Trump or Cruz? I rest my case.