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Ted Cruz Seeks to Mend Fences with Republican Elites
Time ^ | 04/20/2016 | Zeke J Miller

Posted on 04/20/2016 2:48:51 PM PDT by Freedom56v2

Ted Cruz has made few friends among Republicans in Washington during his nearly four years in the Senate, but his message to GOP elite as he looks to build support to the party’s presidential nominee is that he would bring more Republicans along with him.

In a private meeting with members of the Republican National Committee, the Cruz campaign’s high command, including campaign manager Jeff Roe, strategist David Polyansky, and delegate-hunters Ken Cuccinelli and Saul Anuzis, made the case for Cruz as the party’s stronger choice for the general election and argued he’d help down-ballot GOP races. Mathematically eliminated from winning the GOP nomination on the first ballot, Cruz is betting on Donald Trump failing to reach the 1,237 delegates required to win the nomination on the first ballot, and plotting to secure as many of the then-unbound votes as possible.

According to multiple people in the room, Roe pitches the members on Cruz’s commitment to grassroots organizing and cited poll numbers showing Cruz as a better candidate than Trump in the general election. Yet Cruz’s own numbers are less than spectacular, trailing Hillary Clinton in nearly every poll, and often by substantial margins.

Cruz made a late addition to his schedule Wednesday to attend the spring meeting of the RNC at a beachside resort in Hollywood, Fla, where his campaign has arranged an afternoon of small-group meetings with RNC members. The Florida meeting represents the largest gathering of known delegates to the convention,...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; election; establishment; gope; illdobetternexttime; pleasedontbeatme
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To: Jeff Head

That ship has sailed, Jeff. I don’t see it. Kasich is beating Cruz now. Cruz is taking on water fast.


41 posted on 04/20/2016 3:56:18 PM PDT by stilloftyhenight (Trump speaks TO us, not AT us. Big difference.)
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To: bushwon
Well! Well! Well! The Cruzers can't be happy about ole Ted getting cozy with the GOPe now. Or, maybe, blindly, they don't care.

Ted Cruz: "I am the king of voterless states!"™

42 posted on 04/20/2016 3:56:21 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Busta Rhymes
I watched Ted speak today and he creeped me out. He sounded petty, mean, arrogant.

Must have gotten his attitude from Rush & Levin.

43 posted on 04/20/2016 3:58:40 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Bushbacker1

Well! Well! Well! The Cruzers can’t be happy about ole Ted getting cozy with the GOPe now. Or, maybe, blindly, they don’t care.

Ted Cruz: “I am the king of voterless states!”™


Well put!!!
They are in denial!!!


44 posted on 04/20/2016 4:05:39 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism!!)
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To: Bushbacker1

TM. LOL. The Cruz supporters don’t care.
They think he can hop scotch over Trump at the convention,
not realizing tha Americans will view his nomination
as illegitimate.


45 posted on 04/20/2016 4:12:31 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: Hugin

My husband is still Cruzing and I can’t understand why. I too thought better of him but today brought up bile.

He shows his true self and it’s not nice.


46 posted on 04/20/2016 4:21:09 PM PDT by Busta Rhymes
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To: ClearCase_guy

He’s really made a mess of this. Same kinda mess he made in the Senate......my way or else.....


47 posted on 04/20/2016 4:22:53 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: bushwon

Um did you read the part about Trump going there. He will be doing the same thing


48 posted on 04/20/2016 4:26:31 PM PDT by Iowa David (Cruz 2016 - Before it's too late)
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To: bushwon

Not surprised at all. I turned in my Ted Cruz fan club card weeks and weeks ago. If Donald doesn’t make Ted his b*itch then Hillary sure will.


49 posted on 04/20/2016 4:29:38 PM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Someone tell Cruz Karma is a BITCH.)
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To: bushwon

GOP has to know that the man who draws 10s of thousands of supporters to stand in line for hours for a rally often in terrible weather will draw more support down ticket than the guy who gets a couple of dozen people to attend a rally.

Cruz hates Trump more than he loves America. He loves himself more than America. What a total waste of potential!


50 posted on 04/20/2016 4:34:42 PM PDT by nclaurel
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To: MaxistheBest

I agree. That is pretty much how I see it.


51 posted on 04/20/2016 4:36:10 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Jeff Head

Good letter!


52 posted on 04/20/2016 4:38:18 PM PDT by Shortstop7
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To: bushwon

Ted “Turd in the punch bowl” Cruz needs to give it up. Someone bring out the hook. It’s over.


53 posted on 04/20/2016 4:43:51 PM PDT by stratboy (By the way,)
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To: Organic Panic
Don’t waste your time Cruz. They hate you already. They will never support you. And they’ll stab you in the back. You committed the ultimate sin of sticking to your guns “shutting down” the government.
I'm sorry, so sorry
That I was such a fool
I didn't know
I could be so cruel
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-yes

You tell me mistakes
Are part of being young
But that don't right
The wrong that's been done

(I'm sorry) I'm sorry
(So sorry) So sorry
Please accept my apology
But I've been blind
And I was too blind to see


54 posted on 04/20/2016 4:47:27 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (The GOPe deserve nothing more than a middle finger)
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To: bushwon

Look for a gracious departure of he loses badly next week and polling in Indiana looks poor.


55 posted on 04/20/2016 5:00:49 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject)
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To: trisham
He is relentlessly ambitious and unprincipled.

He's looking like an opportunist, no core principles.

56 posted on 04/20/2016 5:10:06 PM PDT by kanawa (Being an insider in a fight with other insiders does not make you an outsider.)
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To: kanawa
He's looking like an opportunist, no core principles.

Compared to who?

Do you really think politicians do have the kind of firm core principles that those outside electoral politics have?

57 posted on 04/20/2016 5:14:57 PM PDT by x
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To: Jim Robinson

“Cruz is now in bed with the GOPe all the way.”

I agree. He has been in bed with them for some time now. Nothing new to anyone who has been paying attention.


58 posted on 04/20/2016 5:17:14 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: bushwon
The last sentence of the article:

Ohio Gov. John Kasich and representatives of Trump’s campaign will also be in Cleveland this week to make their pitch to RNC members.

59 posted on 04/20/2016 5:21:11 PM PDT by JediJones (Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.)
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To: x

‘politicians’....Perhaps not, but I do expect a ‘principled conservative and a Christian’ to have them.


60 posted on 04/20/2016 5:43:47 PM PDT by kanawa (Being an insider in a fight with other insiders does not make you an outsider.)
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