A lot of Trump supporters claim that if Cruz wins the primaries, he will lose the general election. I seems to me that they are overlooking how Cruz would mop the floor with Hillary or Bernie during the subsequent national debates.
Few of us have seen this side of Cruz because, by the time the food fights ended during the Republican national debates, Trump refused to participate in any further ones.
“I seems to me that they are overlooking how Cruz would mop the floor with Hillary or Bernie during the subsequent national debates.”
This is the naivete that is the result of people that listen to WAY TOO MUCH talk radio, and actually bark this garbage out like it means something.
Do you NOT remember that the MSM isnt Glenn Beck, Levin, or RedState?
The only debate that didn’t include Trump was a huge loss for Ted. Ted’s lost debate after debate and he still can’t stop whining like the loser he is.
You overestimate the power of debates on campaigns.
Debates are not everything in winning an election. First of all, you have to get people to watch the debates. Few democrats will watch other than the academic types; they will watch just to confirm their intellectual superiority and the rightness of their decision to vote for Hillary; nothing the republican says will carry any weight with them whatsoever! The only way the independents, and rank and file democrat Hillary voter will watch the debate is if it is Trump doing the debating. So, no matter how wonderful a debater Cruz may be, it won’t matter. You want to see Hillary destroyed in a debate, it has to be with Trump! It won’t be elegant, it won’t be done a rapier, as Cruz would do; Trump will do it with a sledge hammer, it will be quite brutal but very effective! Hillary will be mortally wounded. She won’t leave those debates a viable candidate when Trump is done with her. On the other hand, no matter how good Cruz is, he will only be able to inflict a flesh wound, because no one whose mind might be changed by it will be watching it, and the press will be able to Laslow Cruz. With Trump on the podium, I think the hand of God’s judgement will descend upon Hillary Clinton! She will wish she had decided just to stay home and enjoy the riches of her misspent corrupt life and her grandchildren (neither of which she deserves.)