Posted on 02/08/2016 2:00:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Big Conversation
The pivotal and increasingly more difficult to predict GOP presidential primary in New Hampshire will happen tomorrow. As the Tribune's Abby Livingston reports, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is campaigning with an urgency similar to his efforts in Iowa.
"Cruz already has an Iowa victory under his belt, and will soon turn to Republican supporters better aligned with his message in Southern states in the coming weeks," Livingston wrote. "But he is campaigning here in New Hampshire as if there is not tomorrow: come Tuesday, he will have made at least 17 stops in a week's time."
Donald Trump has run strongly in the Granite State for a while now, and Livingston reports that the real race here is for second place with the four "establishment" candidates -- former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio -- "desperately need(ing) a strong finish here."
Livingston adds, "Cruz could displace them all and take the second-place red ribbon, or his appeal to base voters could prove tone deaf here."
One of the wild cards at play heading into the final couple of days in New Hampshire: assessing exactly how much damage Rubio did to himself at Saturday's GOP presidential debate....
(Excerpt) Read more at texastribune.org ...
She’s just one individual. If she’s your god, feel free to worship her. I decide for myself who to back in elections.
she’s not my god... she’s your Achilles heel
Who is your choice?
I don’t think anybody knows what’s gonna happen.
I’m just hoping that Cruz gets good numbers in this hostile territory and I think he will.
Trump obviously
Where is Sarah? She’s been kinda invisible since The Donald trotted her out to less than sterling reviews.
After a week, Politico came up with one voter who changed her mind at the Carson ‘news’. Of course, she didn’t attribute the ‘news’ to a Cruz supporter, and voted for Trump in a caucus where Carson had almost no support to begin with.
NOt sure what mean about “does that matter”.
If you are asking about about that fact that it appears that the CNN reports of Carson dropping out are looking to be correct; yes it does matter.
The Cruz campaign received information that indicated another candidate was dropping out.
They pushed those reports harder than they should have in hindsight.
Had it been me; I would have simply just relayed the CNN report and done nothing more.
But I would have used the information.
Trump in 1st, Cruz in 2nd on Tuesday!! I don’t know how even any Trumpsters could be against that!
May I call you a Trumpbot now? Is that deemed acceptable?
I’ve tried to avoid that kind of terminology in the past but if you say it’s okay....
That poll was from a Kasich super-pac per Rush
In your mind, perhaps. I backed Nixon at one time, too. Mistakes will be made.
Where Sarah is isn’t relevant. Cruz embraced her, Trump embraced her. Were both wrong to do so?
It was understandable enthusiasm among Cruz’s workers.
He apologized.
Apparently Ben Carson will only settle for blood.
If that voter’s story had any legs it would be everywhere.
Her politics haven’t changed much. So much for loyalty, eh?
I was just asking. Don’t get all huffy. After the big blowout, I just haven’t seen much of her.
She did a good thing in helping Ted Cruz win the Senate.
He could not have been more appreciative and has not said a bad word about her.
She did an odd thing in endorsing Trump ... at least in my point of view.
I don’t dislike her but I was such a huge fan of hers... I even watched her reality show... I even voted for Bristol on Dancing with the Stars.
I’ve earned the right to be disappointed.
Politico found a Trump voter: How conVEENient! And it only took a week.
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