Ted Cruz Is Losing His Mojo at the Worst Possible Moment

New York Mag,com ^ | 8 hours ago | Ed Kilgore

[lentulusgracchus]

Faux News is totally in the tank for open-borders at the command of Boss Murdoch.

I don't think Old Man Murdoch calls the shots at Fox anymore .... his sons are supposedly Libs and would be perfectly happy with 200 years of 'Rat Presidents and _Residents.

IMHO the London phone-games scandal was all about taking down Rupert Murdoch and forcing him to turn at least partial control over to the sons for "better outcomes".

[mmichaels1970]

No-one watched Trump's sick attempt to use veterans as a campaign prop; Fox's debate was viewership was unharmed.

I might agree with you that Trump's event wasn't a "ratings bonanza", I disagree with the claim that debate viewership was unharmed. It was the second lowest rated debate, and had half the viewers of the previous FNC debate that had the exact same moderators.

Kelly, Baer, Wallace debate #1: 25 million viewers. Kelly, Baer, Wallace debate #2: 13 million viewers.

Debate #7 only out performed debate #6 by one million viewers. Debate #6 was on FBN which less people have access to. Heck, on TWC I have to search the channel guide for a while to find FBN. It's something like 300 channels away in the guide.

I totally get your point about the vets fundraiser. I just don't think a claim that FOX was unharmed by Trump's withdrawal is valid.

[TontoKowalski]

I think Cruz ran before his time. The inept campaign may even stall a future run. Who knows>

Worst of all was the debate. He lost an excellent opportunity. After the initial question could have opened with:

"I'm not here to talk about Donald Trump. I'm here to present my optimistic vision for America's future, and I want to inform the voters of Iowa and the rest of the nation how I will lead us to that vision."

I would have been strong and powerful and mature, not second fiddle, a chance to steal the stage and set things up for a dominating performance.

Instead, he made the lame joke pretending to be Trump, feeding the narrative that Trump was winning a debate he wasn't even at.

[Georgia Girl 2]

You make a good point. Ted Cruz had the opportunity to get his message out at the debate and he flubbed it. Now he’s reduced to sending out shaming letters to Iowa citizens. Sounds desperate.

[DoughtyOne]

Sure seems like it.