Posted on 07/06/2015 1:56:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ted Cruz seems very eager to persuade voters that he's from the Donald Trump wing of the Republican Party:
Sen. Ted Cruz defended Donald Trump on immigration and called out “the Washington cartel” he says is ignoring the issue, in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“I salute Donald Trump for focusing on the need to address illegal immigration,” Cruz said of his rival for the 2016 GOP nomination, adding that it “seems the favorite sport of the Washington media is to encourage some Republicans to attack other Republicans.”
“I’m not interested in Republican on Republican violence,” he told host Chuck Todd, adding that “bold … brash” Trump “has a colorful way of speaking.”
The Texas senator’s comments were similar to his defense of Trump during Fox & Friends on Tuesday.
“When it comes to Donald Trump, I like Donald Trump,” Cruz said on the show. “I think he’s terrific.”
Hey, I thought Cruz really believed he could become president. Does he just want to be Trump's running mate?
I'm joking, of course. I imagine that what Cruz is thinking is that Trump is peaking now, and that when Trump drops out of the race, probably early in the process, Cruz will be in a position to pick up his voters.
Except that Trump is nine points ahead of Cruz in the latest CNN national poll of Republicans. Trump is seven points ahead of Cruz in the two latest polls of New Hampshire, from Suffolk University and CNN/WMUR. Trump is one point ahead of Cruz in the latest Quinnipiac poll of Iowa (and they're both well behind Scott Walker). Trump is nine points ahead of Cruz in the latest PPP survey of Michigan.
If Cruz thinks he can just bide his time until Trump drops out, I think he has the wrong strategy. It looks as if Cruz will be the one to drop out first, and then Trump will get his votes.
I think Trump has, as the saying goes, limited upside potential -- a lot of Republicans still don't like him and never will. In this way, he's like Ron Paul -- and, like Ron Paul, he'll probably stay in the race way past the point at which he's mathematically eliminated, just for the adulation.
But in the meantime, he's going to make Ted Cruz irrelevant (a process Cruz is abetting with his me-too-ism). I think, in the early states, he'll help drive Cruz out of the race.
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UPDATE: Looks as if it's a mutual admiration society:
On Saturday, Trump ... praised what he considers fellow candidate and Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz’s tough immigration stance, calling him “very brave.”
I think this is a ticket.
But Santorum at least had a better excuse: he had been an elected Republican and needed to be endorse to maintain his viability in the system. Trump was this supposed rich maverick who didn't care about the system. He endorsed long before when there were still conservative options.
No one cares what Santorum thinksm
That needed to be a bit closer to the top! I wonder how many stopped reading before that
lol.
right brain and left brain do not agree, but share the same column space!
We first were told that Trump would never file his papers, that he only wanted some attention. Now we are being told that Trump will bow out. Why? The guy who subbed for Hannity today mentioned that. There are about 15 Republican losers that will have to bow out — Linda Graham, Jeb!, Pataki, Paul, etc, and Trump is way ahead of most of them, and no one is talking about them bowing out. Why do people try to comfort themselves by saying that Trump will not stay the course? It seems like whistling in the dark.
Trump did not run for president in 2012.
Maybe it's some form of therapy?
It could be that Cruz is just being truthful....
And, doesn’t necessarily want anything from Trump.
Nah I get what people like about him and don’t disagree with him on immigration. I just won’t sacrifice on the other issues, especially considering one of them is a God given constitutional right over it.
Immigration is an ongoing problem, one that has to be managed (with a wall, increased enforcement, harsh penalties for those who hire illegals) instead of solved. You don’t get to come back from British healthcare. Its next to impossible to come back from gun bans.
The man is appealing on a single issue, but that’s it. Meanwhile he’s terrible on the majority of issues and has been a solid ally of the left for most of his career.
Vote for him if you want (if he somehow got the nomination). Just make sure to buy a shovel and some cosmoline and say goodbye to any money you happen to have.
In Trump’s defense he had to endorse someone and Clinton wasn’t an option. Plus he may have been too distracted helping Rahm Emmanuel get elected to fully think out his Romney position.
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