Posted on 04/30/2016 10:38:55 PM PDT by Trump20162020
BURLINGAME, Calif. — Ted Cruz is speaking confidently about knocking off Donald Trump to take the GOP nomination, but his top staffers admit they’re getting nervous.
In interviews, several aides, speaking on the condition of anonymity, expressed growing alarm that Cruz would lose Indiana’s primary on Tuesday — an outcome that would be a major blow to his hopes of holding Trump below the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination on the party convention’s first ballot. The aides concede that, without a win in an Indiana primary where 57 delegates are at stake, Cruz’s shot at the nomination would significantly narrow.
Within the campaign, some are turning to the question of what’s next. One senior aide said there had been no discussion about dropping out before the final primary contests are held on June 7 but noted that Cruz wouldn’t be eager to prolong a campaign he was convinced he couldn’t win.
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And Trump has odd hair. What does that have to do with electing a president?
I think even Kasich has more of a chance than Cruz.
If the GOPe has its way, it will be Ryan/Kasich.
It was just an observation... an oddity. We all know Trump has weird hair.
I think fioria (aka: The Face) will drop out first.
The poll was conducted among 400 voters across the state from April 13-27. Downs said 30 percent of the surveys were completed before Cruz and Kasich announced a pact for Kasich to pull out of campaigning in Indiana, intended to block Trump from winning the state.
Polls are run over 2-4 days at a maximum in order to show CURRENT thinking from those responding. This poll you are speaking about was taken over 17 days with the majority of the respondents polled BEFORE Cruz was decimated in the NE Primary 5 State elections just last Tuesday. This company polled 24 people daily which means 360 of the 400 responded before the elections Tuesday the 26th.
We all know how momentum works. Winning begets winning after Tuesday the 26th there was a YUUUGE swing towards Trump as is reflected in other polls. There is a simple reason for this poll. It was designed to drop the AVERAGE of polls on RCP. You may want to look at the size of the crowds attending the candidates rallies in the past week. While Trump draws 10’s of 1000’s Cruz draws merely hundreds.
I suppose anything is possible here but if Cruz has magically leaped to a 10 point lead in this poll, where is the corresponding enthusiasm in the crowds?
The poll was conducted among 400 voters across the state from April 13-27. Downs said 30 percent of the surveys were completed before Cruz and Kasich announced a pact for Kasich to pull out of campaigning in Indiana, intended to block Trump from winning the state.
Polls are run over 2-3 days at a maximum (vheck the polls on RCP for proof of this) in order to show CURRENT thinking from those responding. This poll you are speaking about was taken over 17 days with the majority of the respondents polled BEFORE Cruz was decimated in the NE Primary 5 State elections just last Tuesday. This company polled 24 people daily which means 360 of the 400 responded before the elections Tuesday the 26th.
We all know how momentum works. Winning begets winning after Tuesday the 26th there was a YUUUGE swing towards Trump as is reflected in other polls. There is a simple reason for this poll. It was designed to drop the AVERAGE of polls on RCP. You may want to look at the size of the crowds attending the candidates rallies in the past week. While Trump draws 10’s of 1000’s Cruz draws merely hundreds.
If you take these polls and throw out the highest and lowest you wind up with a Trump lead of about 7, in line with everyone’s best guess.
I suppose anything is possible here but if Cruz has magically leaped to a 10 point lead in this poll, where is the corresponding enthusiasm in the crowds?
When you are a backstabber and you hire other backstabbers expect to be backstabbed. Being backstabbers, they eventually stab each other in the back. Carly will stab Ted soon and Ted will stab Carly. As his campaign crumbles his advisors and flacks, being backstabbers will stab Ted on the nightly news. That’s how they run their lives.
He will return to the senate a more deminished and hated man than before.
He has nothing to look forward to except shutting down the gov
every 6 months or so.
Quite a demotion from Presidential candidate.
Which is why I predict he won’t finish his term.
The Indystar is the official mouthpiece for the Indiana GOPe.
Just make sure you are on this Tuesday night so we can discuss how Ted deserves everything that is happening to his campaign.
Ted’s blustering/optimism about a path to victory has gone from mildly amusing to sad to creepy in a short period of time.
Does no one have his ear? Can no one tell him it’s over?
The guy is in serious denial.
I’m sure Wednesday morning he’ll appoint his cabinet....
I’m Trump all the way but knock it off with the Down’s Syndrome comments. An adult conservative would never go there.
Why wait Teddy just drop out now. GTFO!
The horse has died but Teddy won’t get off.
The tribe has spoken but Teddy won’t turn in his spear.
Sigh..
This race has been over since Super Tuesday, everything since then has been political theater.
WI was a manufactured win by the GOPe in the state in what they hoped to swing the momentum in the race... it didn’t, and in the long run it hurt Cruz because to get that win he went all in with the establishment... which in a year when the electorate is clearly sick of the establishment cost him support going forward. Trump’s momentum continued to steamroll after WI and in fact grew even greater as Cruz became perceived as just another establishment politician, particularly by those who had shown support for him prior. Its no coincidence that Cruz’s national numbers began to drop after WI.
The reality is, even if Cruz were to win Indiana, win ever single delegate there, he still can’t stop Trump from getting 1237. This thing is over, Cruz is just doing himself long term damage at this point. I understand its hard to admit things are lost and you need to put the best spin you can on situations to keep folks motivated, but there just is no path for Cruz, and hasn’t been since Super Tuesday.
This idea that if Cruz can just pull out Indiana he can get a contested convention and then somehow beat Trump is insane... it always ways. Its lawyer thing... Well I’m obviously going to lose the first trial, so I’ll lay the groundwork for an appeal... STUPID and wrong thinking from the get go.
You win or you go home, if your primary plan is to concede initial defeat, in the real world, outside the world of lawyers and legal processes, this is the way you fail. Cruz thinks like a lawyer, not a winner.
Here you go Steelturd, a brand new poll out today showing Trump with a 15 pt lead. Suck it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3426317/posts
If Ted refuses to fold up his tent after Indiana, you know someone somewhere has promised him something to keep going..... Don’t know what, but frankly the fact he’s stuck around this long implies to me he’s got some sort of promise in his back pocket from someone for something.
>>He’ll remain in the Senate as a conservative voice of opposition to the liberal administration. Which we’re going to have regardless ... <<
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This is a major example of Lyin’ Ted’s lies.
Calling Trump a liberal is pathetic and stupid.
Other major CRUZ LIES:
1. Trump doesn’t know how to create jobs
2. Trump is for expanding Obamacare
3. Trump cannot win 1237
4. Trump cannot beat Hillary.
5. Trump is for immigration.
REPEAT: These are PATHETIC. Nobody in their right mind believes any of them. That’s why “Lyin’ Ted” has stuck like superglue on your candidate.
You do realize that this poll is a MASSIVE outlier right?
It is well outside the margins and trends of any poll taken prior or since, and represents what would amount to a 20 point swing minimum in Ted’s favor that no other polling outfit has found right?
Do you honestly think Announcing Carly to the ticket gave Cruz a sudden 20 point boost in his ratings overnight?? And that that boost has only been picked up by this one singular poll out of all the polling that’s come out of IN in the past week or two?
If you feel this poll is accurate depiction of what the electorate will do Tuesday then I fear you are going to be in for some massive disappointment Tuesday night.
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