To be honest, I don’t think that will happen and don’t think he has much of a chance but ... time will tell. I think he has a small group of fervent supporters and won’t grow beyond that. What WILL help him is that there are so many running on the GOP side that a good plurality of voters can get you reasonably deep in the Primaries.
But Ted is a true Conservative and Latinos simply are not that Conservative and don’t vote Conservative. I am befuddled as to why to some extent, but time and time again the polls and their voting patterns prove that. And we just don’t live in a time in our lives where people switch sides anymore. It’s all about one thing and one thing only ... turnout.
[To be honest, I don’t think that will happen and don’t think he has much of a chance]
TED CRUZ is the most qualified candidate, and you know it.
Let the facts speak for themselves.
TED CRUZ - MORE THAN QUALIFIED TO BE POTUS - 2016
http://www.tedcruz.org/
Pretty impressive...
• Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, not to mention the longest tenure in Texas history.
• Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.
• Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court
• Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
• Described as a ‘superb’ constitutional lawyer, the man’s considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him
answer the damn question.
• In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
• Cruz presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
• In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan. Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.
• Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
• Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
• Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
• Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%...
he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.
• AWARDS: “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,” National Law Journal (2008) “25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century,” Texas Lawyer (2010) “20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise,” Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
• On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have root-and-branch...
Godspeed, Senator Cruz- I’m all in.
It will likely come down to money.
Those who cannot get and sustain a strong financial base will disappear due to a lack of interest. However, that may not happen until mid-to-late February, as some low-budget hangers-on may be around a while.
The Republican have scheduled 11 debates starting August 15, 2015 and ending March, 2016. [Exact dates for most debates are still TBD.]
Primaries begin January 18, 2016, with the Iowa Caucuses and the New Hampshire primary January 25, 2016 and continue through June 28, 2016. Several states tried to change their primary dates, but the requests dies.
http://frontloading.blogspot.com/p/2016-presidential-primary-calendar.html
The nominee is likely to have been determined by the end of April, with the acquisition of SuperDelegates.
Wrong. I live in a part of the country that has tons of hispanics and I do not know one that is Democrat and likes the Clintons. They all know the illegal aliens will come take their jobs and they just do not like them. I have friends that are hispanic and hate illegals much worse than I.
Cruz may not win but he has a much better chance of taking a large percentage of legal hispanic voters than Jebby or Rubio will. This B.S. that all the so called political pundits claim about Texas going blue really worked out well for them with Wendy, didn’t it? It may in the future but I fear it will be from disgust of the pubbies claiming to be conservative when in actuallity they are just d’s and not R’s.