LOL. Cruz moves the goal posts once more. Stick a fork in him, he's done.
Posted on 05/01/2016 7:08:05 PM PDT by Innovative
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released on Sunday showed Donald J. Trump with a lead of 15 points among likely Republican primary voters, 49 percent to 34 percent.
Fifty-eight percent of voters said they disapproved of the agreement struck by Mr. Cruz and Gov. John Kasich, which called for Mr. Kasich to abandon campaigning in Indiana in exchange for Mr. Cruz’s withdrawal from Oregon and New Mexico. Thirty-four percent approved.
Mr. Cruz’s own polling has likewise shown him trailing Mr. Trump, compelling the campaign to look beyond the state, if at least for a moment.
And on Saturday, Mr. Cruz surrendered a full day of Indiana politicking to speak at California’s state Republican convention, with an eye toward its election on June 7.
“California,” he said there, a bit hopefully, “is going to decide this Republican primary.”
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Well said!
Indiana is the Falaise Pocket
Ouch. That is ugly (for Ted).
Have found no other sources to confirm this post/report. Nothing...AP, Google, nothing. However, Cruz did campaign in California today saying something to the effect that California is going to decide the election. So, that’s somewhat of a sign.
but I thought Cruz said Indiana was his Alamo...
how many Texas Alamo’s does the Canadian intend to lose?
LOL. Cruz moves the goal posts once more. Stick a fork in him, he's done.
I can’t find anything either and Bill Still is not a trustworthy source.
-Trump supporter.
And, I wouldn't expect the historical heartstrings to be tugged in Indiana as they would be in Texas with such a connection.
Anyway... I hope that he will see that the time has come for him to pack it in. He's fought long and hard. Mostly honorably.
Of course, it may be that he sees this as the end of his political career, and not just the end of his Presidential run.
If he hasn't done it now, he won't do it. He is young enough that he could have bowed out as strong second place in a field of 16, and waited for the next election. The republicans go by taking turns just like democrats, so he would be the automatic frontrunner next time. But he is not doing it, instead going on a kamikaze run against Trump.
I don't know why this is happening. I sure would like to see the real actors behind the scenes and hear what they told him, because I think he is being told to do this rather than Cruz coming to this plan himself. What have they promised him that is better than just waiting. What offer did they make that he can't refuse?
It seems both Cruz and Clinton have the knack for driving down their own numbers wherever they campaign hardest. Both are better as an abstraction than as a person. Cruz does better as “the rock solid conservative” abstraction. Clinton does better as “the first woman President” abstraction. The real people behind these abstractions turn voters off the more they get exposed.
Residents: n=2568, MOE +/- 1.9%
Potential Democratic Electorate: n=864, MOE +/- 3.3%
GENDER GUESS
Do you consider your permanent home address to be in Indiana?
Do you approve or disapprove of the job Mike Pence is doing as governor?
Registered Voters: n=2149, MOE +/-2.1%
Likely Democratic Primary Voters: n=449, MOE +/- 4.6%
i stopped looking at the poll when they stopped breaking down the results based on the demographics.
What I don’t understand is if you a Kashick voter, why would you waste your vote on someone who cleary didn’t want your vote?>>>> uuuuuuhhhhh you are a kashich voter
But, but, but Carley will help him a lot in California, where she exported tens of thousands of jobs to China.>>> political people pick losers for demographics or whatever. real people hire the best they can find for the job. go figure.
Either that, or he just wants to see the GOP burn.
Yep - its been all about his spiteful ego for a while now - he spits on the People he claims to want to champion.
He seems more intent on preserving the GOPe than wanting it to burn - a Trump romp will put the fear of Jesus into their betraying and cowardly hearts.
It is a general rule to stop looking at things, polls and otherwise, that raise one's blood pressure and portend a scary outcome.
why not ask cruz himself, where is he? If he’s not physically in Indiana when election is a few days away, then he’s out
This weekend, when he backtracked on Indiana's importance to his campaign and left the state for California. He knew Indiana was lost.
Though Mr. Cruz has effectively staked his candidacy on Indiana, he has left himself wiggle room.
On Thursday, Mr. Cruz called Indiana “the one thing that stands between us and plunging over the cliff.” On Sunday, there was no such pronouncement.
Mr. Cruz’s own polling has likewise shown him trailing Mr. Trump, compelling the campaign to look beyond the state, if at least for a moment. Top surrogates have described the extended primary season as a product of divine will, arguing the entire country deserves a chance to speak. ...
And on Saturday, Mr. Cruz surrendered a full day of Indiana politicking to speak at California’s Republican convention, with an eye on the state’s June 7 election.
i stopped looking at the poll when they stopped breaking down the results based on the demographics.
It is a general rule to stop looking at things, polls and otherwise, that raise one’s blood pressure and portend a scary outcome.>> well i just wanted to see the poll numbers broken out by the demographics if they can’t or won’t publish it that way then i as thinking person will need to do work that the poll is telling me i shouldn’t need to do because they have taken a poll. so long that poll and it’s published results that don’t publish the facts.
The poll was accurate. It had Trump winning by 15% and he won by 16.7%.
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