Posted on 05/12/2016 6:51:04 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
Ted Cruz said Thursday that those who contributed to the rise of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will have to "bear that responsibility going forward."
Cruz appeared Thursday evening on the Houston-based "Michael Berry Show" and was asked whether he thought he was treated fairly in the GOP primary, with the host mentioning Fox News.
"Well listen, there's time for recriminations and you know, everyone who was responsible for the rise of Donald Trump, they will bear that responsibility going forward," Cruz responded.
"But there were more than a few players that played a disproportionate role in that rise," he added. "I'm going to focus, instead of looking backwards, I'm going to focus on looking forwards."
Cruz returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for the first time since dropping out of the GOP race but declined to endorse Trump, who is working to shore up support from establishment Republicans.
"I think we left it all on the field," Cruz said Thursday. "My one regret is that we came up short."
Cruz said he'll address the Texas GOP convention Saturday afternoon.
"The biggest message I'm going to say is simply 'thank you,'" Cruz said.
He'll rally Republicans with a message that "although the results may not have been as we wanted, that together we started a movement and this movement will continue."
Cruz said he wasn't sure if he'd address the national GOP convention in Cleveland in July, but he indicated he planned to attend out of an obligation to the some 600 delegates he won during the primary.
"I don't know if I'll have a role at the convention or not, but I'll certainly be there cheering on the delegates," he said.
I remind you that Trump didn’t win more than 50% anywhere until the bandwagon effect began to take effect. In NY State Trump only got two/thirds as many votes in his primary as Bernie did in his and and Hillary got twice as much.
I remind you Trump received a higher percent of the vote in Florida than Cruz did in his HOME STATE. And of course Trump wiped the floor with a sitting Senator favorite son in FL.
He could take over the Rush Limbaugh talk show as a protege ..., so Rush could retire; share the wealth, so to speak.
Why? no one should have such delusions about any politician. And that what he is, a politician.
Cruz is preparing to continue his political career. He just announced that he is running for re-election. and he is not expecting Trump to take the right path even if elected.
Apparently, he is not expecting 5 million “low info” Texans who will vote Trump in November to support him either. BTW, more Texans will vote for Trump than have EVER voted for Ted Cruz.
If Trump is a politician, he is unlike any politician we have seen. That is the secret to his success and why he connects with voters. He is genuine.
Trump will eventually say something in response. It’s going to be something like ‘removing him from the VP pool—like a Tootsie Roll from a swimming pool.’
That's all fine and well, but I'm really comparing Cruz with Cruz, not Cruz with Trump.
In 2012, just 4 short years ago, Cruz managed to win almost 57% of Texans' votes in his primary runoff with Dewhurst, a fellow Texan who was the incumbent. (as you know, being a Texan.)
You would think that our fellow Texans would have picked our homeboy Cruz over "that Yankee, Donald Trump" in the recent primary. All I'm saying: If Cruz had his 2012 popularity when we voted in March, theoretically he should have buried Trump. He didn't. By the time the midterms roll around in 2018, assuming Cruz keeps yapping like he did on the radio here, Cruz would be lucky to be elected as Harris County dogcatcher.
From Wiki:
Republican runoff results
Ted Cruz - 631,316 votes for 56.8%
David Dewhurst - 480,165 votes for 43.2%
Just my opinion.
Ah, is hypocritical Cruz criticizing himself? He was the only one of the 17 GOP candidates who repeatedly defended and praised Trump last year. MSNBC has already put together a compilation video that they’ve shown of Ted saying all sorts of positive things about Trump (until he did a 180 and started pushing an extraordinary wealth of negative falsehoods about Trump instead). Cruz really is one of the most unprincipled politicians I’ve ever come across.
We know damned well Trump never implicated Ted's father in the JFK assassination and unless you're an idiot you know it as well.
It looks as though there's photographic evidence that papa Cruz and LHO were both in New Orleans months before Kennedy was killed. Pointing that out isn't the same as putting him at the book depository with Oswald.
Comments like yours are the reason Trump supporters have no patience for crybaby Ted and his loser supporters. You people are just as dishonest and untrustworthy as he is. You people think you're so smart when reality is, you've been taken in by a bible thumping phony and your heads are so far up your asses you don't know it.
I am afraid his national career is over if he does not play nice around June 7th and forward of that.
reason is a lot of republican voters are going to recall his epic rant the morning of the Indiana primary, it was a muskie moment. It showed he cracked under pressure.
2nd, if he continues to try to passive aggressively pull down trump and hope that Trump losses in the fall...Republicans will remember that and he will never get vote one again. Not because he hate Cruz, but because it shows he is all about himself and nothing else. it is , like his epic 10 minute rant, a sign of poor character.
As rough as the primary season was, both my wife and I were musing that it dis show the flaws of all the candidates, including trump. By the Bye, all the trump supporters I know acknowledge his many flaws, it is just he is less flawed than all the other candidates.
Trump was no where near a politician before he ran for president so that is not necessarily true.
I think you should take your own advice when it comes to your support for Cruz, who IS a career politician/government employee.
CGato
Stop being a total jerk.
Ted does seem to work overtime to cultivate the popular culture image of conservatives as pure asshats.
He did not win over 50%. What Trump realized was that the primary system was rigged to favor the front runner and he managed after Iowa to stay ahead of a big field. As for Florida, Trump owed this victory to the feud between the Bushies and Rubio. Jeb should have dropped out after NH. but his backers had took much invested him.
The one thing I have never understood was that first debate run by Fox. Blonde’s very first question was do totally out of line. Did they know him, did they know his audience so little that they thought that this would take him out?
Ted, those not explicitly supporting you with a vote are responsible for not supporting you. Those supporting Trump with a vote before you dropped out are responsible for supporting him over you.
Those supporting Trump after you dropped out are supporting the likely nominee over Hillary.
The anointed king is none too pleased with us.
Here is something to ponder, the American people on the Republican side have spoken and in record numbers. Trump is going to smash the total votes record so GET OVER IT!
It’s Official: Donald Trump Sets New Popular Vote Record for Republican Primary
CGato
I agree but for at least the next couple years be ready for Ted to be running a parallel presidency hopping in front of a camera any time he can to tell everyone how horrible anything Trump does is and how it should have been done.
Hopefully Texas won't reelect the guy or else he'll be whining through two terms of Trump. Look for him to be filibustering anything Trump has a lot of support for as well..
JMHo
That’s a great way to view the situation.
I voted for both because they were the best left. I didn’t get all mad at those who backed them before they won the primary. I accepted it was what it was.
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