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Our neighbors and good friends are a police officer and his wife. Both died-in-the-wool NE democrats. The wife in particular. She actually wrote in Nader in 2000. Anyway, they both hate Hitlery and think Sanders is off his rocker. Both will vote for Trump if he's the R nominee. Both have said that there is no way they could vote for Cruz and would not vote if Cruz is the nominee.

That is very telling to me.

“Our neighbors and good friends are a police officer and his wife. Both died-in-the-wool NE democrats. The wife in particular. She actually wrote in Nader in 2000. Anyway, they both hate Hitlery and think Sanders is off his rocker. Both will vote for Trump if he’s the R nominee. Both have said that there is no way they could vote for Cruz and would not vote if Cruz is the nominee.
That is very telling to me.”
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I’m getting the same thing up here.....Several people that have voted Dems in the past three or four elections that can’t bring themselves to vote for Hillary (and know that Bernie WON’T be the Dem nominee) have said that they will either NOT vote in November or “might” vote for Trump (”if he tones it down”) but have ALL said unequivocally that they would NEVER vote for Cruz. Make of it what you will....

Both will vote for Trump if he's the R nominee. Both have said that there is no way they could vote for Cruz and would not vote if Cruz is the nominee.

Cruz's evangelical base just doesn't exist in the northeast. There are evangelicals, but they're megachurch moderates and liberals, not Revelation quoting doom preachers.

What it comes down to is this: Cruz's campaign is based on an obsolete playbook. He can't win any states Romney lost. Therefore he can't win. Trump is creating a new playbook, a new coalition. He's the only guy who can win.