Posted on 03/10/2016 5:19:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The good news for the Republican "establishment" is that there's a man who might be able to stop Donald Trump. The bad news is that it's Ted Cruz, someone they may dislike almost as much.
Cruz, who won Idaho on Tuesday while finishing second to Trump in Michigan, Mississippi and Hawaii, is within striking distance of Trump. So far, 29 percent of Republican primary voters have voted for Cruz as compared with 35 percent for Trump. Meanwhile, Cruz trails Trump by 100 delegates: not a trivial gap, although only one more than the 99 at stake in winner-take-all Florida next Tuesday.
The problem for Cruz is that Florida and the rest of the calendar probably aren't as favorable to him as the states that have voted so far. (Florida looks like a Trump state as Marco Rubio loses ground.) But Cruz does have a few things going for him. He's tended to outperform his polling almost everywhere. He's won states in all four major regions of the country. And he potentially stands to gain if Rubio and perhaps John Kasich drop out.
The exit polls in Michigan and Mississippi asked voters who they'd pick in a two-way race between Trump and Cruz, also giving them the option to say they'd sit out the race. Among Rubio voters, on average between the two states, about 75 percent said they'd still vote in a Trump-Cruz race, and of those, 80 percent would prefer Cruz to Trump. Kasich voters were somewhat more equivocal; 55 percent said they'd still vote, and of those, two-thirds would go to Cruz over Trump. Although this is the first time the exit polls have asked about one-on-one matchups, the results are consistent with national polls showing Trump losing ground as the field winnows....
(Excerpt) Read more at fivethirtyeight.com ...
Problem is they move up North where Cruz is hated
Yawn...your posts are full of shoulda, coulda, woulda’s.
Nate left out the help from the GOPe, which Ted will need and is beginning to get, and will not refuse
Cruz said I’m not smart enough for him. Guess I stay home in November if he’s the guy.
“Trump with his pragmatic real-life record is a far more palatable national figure than Ted Cruz, whose unctuous, vainglorious professions of Christian piety don’t pass the smell test. Trump is a blunt, no-crap mensch, while Cruz is a ham actor, doling out fake compassion like chopped liver. Cruz’s lugubrious, weirdly womanish face, with its prim, tight smile and mawkishly appealing puppy-dog eyebrows, is like a waxen mask, always on the verge of melting. This guy doesn’t know who the hell he is—and the White House is no place for him and us to find out.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407639/posts?page=1
Like Iowa and Maine?
They actually pay him to write this crap? Cudda, wudda, shudder.
Why ping me to a thread I posted?
Yawn...your posts are full of shoulda, coulda, woulda’s.
You left out mighta be able “who mighta be able to stop Donald Trump”
Here’s what going to happen; at the convention Trump won’t have enough for the first vote, Cruz will be handed the nomination and will chose Rubio for his vice president. Then if elected ( which probably won’t happen ) will back Amnesty.
He’s considered the best pollster/statistician in the country, believe it or not.
Jim Mora!
hey, I had very high hopes for Cruz too
You may want to add Bush to your tagline. Haha
Thank you for posting this...Lord knows I haven’t seen ANYTHING like this on FR in the last 9 months...
I notice how the talk has shifted from “Cruz will WIN!” to “Cruz MIGHT be able to stop Trump” (by preventing him from getting enough delegates to do a first-ballot win).
You have a future writing Trump fan fiction.
I do what I can.
What is his campaign about now, Beating Trump? Visionary
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