Posted on 05/01/2016 8:47:18 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said in an interview airing Sunday that GOP front-runner Donald Trump may encourage riots if he does not win the Republican nomination in Cleveland this summer.
Asked on CBS' "Face the Nation" if he was concerned about the possibility of violence if he were able to "overthrow" Trump with the delegates in Cleveland, Cruz insisted there wouldn't but said that Trump might try to fan the flames.
"No, it won't, although Donald may do everything he can to encourage riots," he said. "You know, overthrow is such a loaded spin word as ... to bring nothing but chuckles."
Gerald Ford and Abraham Lincoln both won their respective nominations despite coming in with fewer votes than their opponents, he added, so it wouldn't be the first time that the candidate who comes out of a convention is the one who didn't win the most votes during the primaries.
"When we arrive in Cleveland, I'm going have a bunch of delegates," he said. "Donald's going have a bunch of delegates. And it's going be a battle to see who can earn the support of a majority of the delegates elected by the people."
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What has Cruz been offered to make these allegations?
Good. Let the mutants come out. It will help him. Then when he is office he will use the Guard to exterminate these Marxists.
This guy is the creepiest politician I’ve ever seen.
Trump will win on the first ballot. Cruz can twist and torture what Trump has said in the past, but it’s moot.
Cruz is really being an idiot about this. And that’s putting it nicely.
By making a statement like that, he is basically encouraging rioters!!!!!
Just a bit of gratuitous character assassination from Classy Cruz.
THIS is really not helping Cruz, you know.
Why didn’t his political advisers give him some clue(s)?
What an irresponsible charge!!
I watched him and he lied his @ss off. He's desperate.
That’s what makes him so creepy. How did this guy ever got elected to office? What’s wrong with Texas?
Shut up Ted. You’re already DEAD and BURIED!
Cruz said there will be a revolt if someone else other than Cruz or Trump was elected. Revolt, Riot, what’s the difference?
Wishing you could, eh? Immigrate?
Ted Cruz is now making Glenn Beck look stable.
“... see who can earn the support of a majority of the delegates elected by the people.”
Trump has ALREADY done that...
YOU are the one with a bunch of delegates that were given to you...Not by the people, but by the GOPe...
Talk about projecting shadows. It is Cruz losing which provoked HIM to support tacitly BLM/Soros/Hillary in riots against Trump in Chicago.
What a PoS, using once again the La Raza language
There he goes again.
I love the lower graphic. My husband loved it too. So funny.
WHERE’S A MUZZLE WHEN YOU NEED ONE??!!
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