Posted on 05/02/2016 11:42:46 AM PDT by maggief
Ted Cruz on Monday faced off against Donald Trump supporters who crashed an event in Indiana, where the GOP hopeful is desperately working to upset the front-runner and keep his White House dreams alive.
Protestors started chanting "Do the math" during Cruz's stop in Marion, Ind., prompting the Texas senator to walk up to to a demonstrator holding a Trump campaign sign. The man, who refused to give his name to reporters but said he had come from Ohio, interrupted Cruz and repeatedly called him "Lyin' Ted," Trump's favorite nickname for his rival.
"With all respect, Donald Trump is deceiving you, playing you for a chump," Cruz said.
"Ask yourself two questions: One, why is it that the mainstream media so desperately wants Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee? And why is it John Boehner supports Donald Trump?" Cruz asked, referring to the former GOP Speaker from Ohio.
The men stood just a few feet from each other, and were enveloped in a throng of reporters and Cruz supporters.
Cruz repeatedly attempted to make his pitch while the man interrupted him.
The protester chided Cruz for calling on John Kasich to get out of the presidential race, telling him to take his own advice. The man told Cruz that Trump is certain to win the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination.
"You'll find out tomorrow," the man said, "Indiana don't want you."
The attacks also got personal at times, with the man jabbing him about rumors of infidelity and panning his Canadian birth. Cruz was also criticized for having ties to Goldman Sachs. Cruz's wife Heidi worked for the investment bank.
"Where's your Goldman Sachs jacket? We know your wife works there," the man said.
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NOME ??? They don’t want him there either. He doesn’t finish the job he ran for in Texas...what other “job” will he run for if he’s elected president. President of the world?
Based on his current behavior, he might try.........
Und haf gut Sachs!
“Where’s your Goldman Sachs jacket? We know your wife works there,” the man said.
I’m sure that went over well with Teddy!
Trump supporters have become what they (supposedly) hate. No different than Leftists.
I'm sure he has it lying around somewhere. Hopefully he can find it for his next rally. Might get him another bump in the polls.
The rays of light just emanated from Cruz’s head, didn’t they?
He really turned everybody’s head when he made the hors d oveurs feed the 5000. And when he turned the Anti-Trump Kool-Aid into wine... Everybody was wow’d by that!
Just curious. Does anyone have links to video of Trump personally talking to an anti-Trump protestor face to face to try to convince him to vote for him?
Well if that was a plant we’ve found yet another thing at which Cruz totally sucks. He really needs to go to the personality store and stop off for some plain common sense on the way home from there. Once home he should practice talking to his kids rather than turn every utterance into oration. LOL who couldn’t see Cruz.”I...believe it in the interest of the American People, that I ...obtain a glass of hydrogen dioxide, our Lord’s bounty, from the kitchen, ...faucet, a miracle of modern engineering technology”.
He is soooo bad once you get to know him.
“The author may be wrong in saying the protester CRASHED the event.
When Cruz chooses to show up at a busy public restaurant in a state where Trump has 50% of the electorate, he should expect some flack from diners who just want to eat their lunch in peace without a Cruz-sermon!”
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Yes, I see your point. Pay no attention to the video itself which showed the “diners who just want to eat their lunch in peace” were “eating their invisible lunches” out in the street carrying large professionally made Trump signs screaming at Cruz.
The Trump supporter looks like a Ted Cruz plant==so that Ted can look reasonable talking to him—while the Trump supporter is made out to be some imbecilic ogre. This is just like the 10 year old at the rally yesterday who needed a “spanking”
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plant? you have trumpetrs on this site supporting these idiots..they think it was great. They have no idea that it makes them look stupid.
When I drove by around 1 p.m. it appeared the event was outside. The Mill restaurant doesn’t open until 4 or 5. This guy was standing across the street along with others holding a Trump sign. I don’t know if Cruz went over to him before or after the event. The event was scheduled for 12:15 until 1:15
“The Trump supporter looks like a Ted Cruz plant...”
Wow. I never thought of that. A dirty trick like that seems perfectly in character with Cruz.
I’m surprised he hasn’t had a life-sized cardboard cut-out of Trump prepared, and then invited the press so he could debate it.
Now it would be wrong of us to blame the heckler's rudeness on the kind of campaign Cruz is running so I won't. Instead as a Trump supporter I urge my fellow supporters to discourage disrupting the events of Cruz. We are not the left, we should behave better.
Doubtful it's a plant. Trump supporters are cultists, saps and fools.
That fellow Ted Cruz bravely faced off against reminds me of the Obama supporters of 2008; however, with more viciousness than a 2008 BHO supporter.
You have to admit that that “you suck” child was a plant.
If it was a private event and he was crashing it, I say the heckler was in the wrong. But if he really was minding his own business and happened to have a Trump sign handy for some reason at dinner, then that is a different matter.
FNC was playing this clip early — maybe it was even live; I don’t know.
Anyhow, for the short time I watched (low gag threshold and all), Cruz was poking toward the guy with his index finger. I’m sure it was to emphasize his statements/lies, but that’s a very rude gesture in polite society.
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