I've seen no reason to believe he CAN. The whole McConnell thing fizzled.
Cruz is building solid momentum slowly, garnering votes that actually matter...
Do you know of some "super voters" that I don't? All the organization in the world means nothing if somebody else is more popular.
This "ground game" meme is just a variation on the misguided "Jeb Bush is unstoppable" canard.
Best if he starts winning early primaries, THEN has a solid base to use the then- unavoidable media attention to his advantage.
Well I'll believe it when he starts winning primaries, but even so, how does he avoid the McCain/Romney media treatment?
The oft-forgotten reality is it’s only actual votes that count, not answered phone polls or media rhetoric etc. Question is how many “sure I’d vote for Trump!” actually will. I’ve seen too many polls go horribly wrong when the actual vote happened.
The Jeb ground game rhetoric was proactive, trying to create momentum where it wasn’t. Cruz is getting actual momentum, reported on afterwards.
Cruz can avoid the McCain/Romney treatment because he is VERY good at debating, and because Trump is legitimizing a great deal of turf Cruz would be hard-pressed to plow himself (not a dig at Cruz, just there’s some issues that he can’t broach but Trump can). McCain was a political centrist, so he couldn’t deal with right-wing issues. Romney didn’t want the job. Neither knew how to handle media opposition & distortion.