Posted on 05/03/2016 6:44:49 AM PDT by maggief
Ted Cruz vowed Monday that hes in for the distance, but if the Texas senator loses Indiana on Tuesday he risks big donors abandoning the Stop Trump effort that has spent millions supporting him in battleground states.
More than a half-dozen Republicans involved in the pro-Cruz and anti-Trump push told POLITICO that Indiana is crucial for Cruz to keeping the cash flowing, as skittish donors have grown weary after a string of recent losses.
If he cant be stopped in Indiana, you will have a lot of people who just throw up their arms and say, Well, I guess he cant be stopped, said Erick Erickson, an influential Republican activist who has tried to organize anti-Trump forces. I think the super donors or the megadonors they stop spending money. Theyre not going to get on board Trump, but theyre not going to continue to invest in what they perceive as a lost cause.
After Trump rolled through the Northeast, winning every county but one in the past six states, the pressure is on Cruz and its showing. Cruz has run through his entire political playbook to save Indiana.
He struck a nonaggression pact with John Kasich. He bought TV ads. His supportive super PACs bought TV ads. He blitzed the Sunday shows. He barnstormed the state on a bus tour. He got the governors endorsement. He even named his running mate.
And if all that is not enough, its not clear what would be both to anti-Trump donors and to those inside his own campaign.
If we lose Indiana, we have to do some soul searching, said one top Cruz adviser, adding things are looking rough right now.
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I want to see Red State, New Republic, and Mark Levin lying out by the curb when this is all over. Healing, my azz, they are not too big to fail and they should.
Beck, it goes without saying, is done.
Add National Review as well.
William Kristol, David Brooks and George Will being described as “conservatives” is laughable.
Not up to Cruz. After 60,000 attack ads Trump is at an all time high.
Will Rush support a third party challenge?
I certainly hope not, but Rush does have that ass Erik Erickson on as a guest host from time to time.
HEY! That cash is going to Jeb’s people! You cut off the money train, what will they do? They’ve already been turned away from the Trump camp.
Maybe Goldman will give Cruz another loan. Perhaps not.
To a point. Bush Jr. was magnanimous and he got his butt kicked for it. VANQUISH them first, ie. clear them out of all positions of power. THEN maybe offer the olive branch.
I guess Whoopi would say, there’s never, and there’s never never.
Yes, that’s how winners do it.
LOL. Love to see the garbage trunk picking them up!!
". . . supports a third party in these circumstances is a Hillary supporter."
Or believes God is telling them what to do and promising them victory.
Which can't be ruled out when it comes to Cruz or the billionaire queers giving him most of his money.
Naturally, in order to be magnanimous in victory requires VICTORY. That means, in this context, one man standing and no more (like Highlander, “there can be only one!”).
But then Trump and his supporters MUST offer the olive branch...or we will all lose in November and thereafter.
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