Look, I want Ted Cruz to win but I do agree he lacks charisma. Trump has spent 30 years cultivating himself as a media figure, a pop culture star. He is attracting low information voters (LIVs) who have seen him regularly on TV and watched him hobnob with the rich and famous. What he says, to the LIVs, is less important than who he is - a guy who got to play “boss” to a ton of other celebs who may have the IQ of cockroaches (cough, Dennis Rodman, cough) but whom the pop culture identifies with.
Ted Cruz is the opposite of this. Cruz is all-serious, all-the-time. He’s a man of great intellect, great debate skills and the charm of an undertaker. What he says is everything. He’s spot-on with most of it to our conservative ears and he’s fiercely brave to attack the pols in both parties and tell it like it is but that doesn’t play well with the “cool” crowd as much as hanging with rappers and reality stars.
If Trump bows out, the LIVs will gravitate back to whomever the MSM tells them is “cool”, which is Hillary. For now, they’re hitched to Trump because he’s the anti-president and he’s stirring the pot. The less Trump talks about policy, the better he’ll be received by the LIVs.
where do you get the idea that Trump has this massive appeal among the lo fo crowd? I think that’s absurd.