I was a Cruz fan. I still think Cruz is the best Senator we have and I'm a pretty big Jeff Sessions fan as well. But compare voting records and Cruz wins.
But to your point. You are probably right about the upper Midwest but it would nice to hear the rational for the claim.
Nevertheless, we owe this election to WI, MI and PA. There is no doubt that the people of those states heard Trump's message. I was betting Trump would squeeze in with a close win in NH followed by a win in NV. I thought we had a good chance in MI and didn't even consider that WI was in play. And PA? We never win PA, we just get close.
It was an amazing election and this former (and still) Cruz supporter is inclined to agree: We probably did need Trump to take on and defeat the Wicked Witch.
Cruz was not going to take on the Trade Agreements or mass immigration.
Cruz is a doctrinaire Free Trade guy coming from a libertarian Right tendency. He’s a neo-globalist. His opposition to illegal immigration is simply a straight affirmation of law and order but does not go futher into the issue of who are the immigrants, or what it does to wage competition for the citizenry.
Trump was saying what people in Ohio and Michigan were thinking but afraid to say for fear of condemnation. They can vote for him without risking the wrath of their far left doctrinaire neighbors. So they did.
That would not have been the case with Cruz. They would have just stayed home.
I think we owe it to the pollsters. I believe that the democrats truly believed the polls. They thought they had enough fraudulent votes in place to ensure a victory. I noticed something weird from the start if the vote reporting. The large cities were some of the first areas to report which is not normal. By the time they saw what was happening they didn’t have enough areas/time to manufacture enough votes to make up the difference without it being very obvious to everyone.
Because he would have acted exactly like he did in the primary and ignored us.