Posted on 02/28/2016 10:17:56 AM PST by jimbo123
The South was to be Ted Cruz’s springboard to the nomination, his firewall in case the first few contests didn’t quite finish off the competition.
After a string of third-place finishes, the boasts are gone. The optimism seems forced. Cruz is now engaged in a long slog, overshadowed by Donald Trump and Marco Rubio and heading into Super Tuesday with dim prospects for retaking control of the Republican presidential race.
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Cruz offered a far more restrained assessment Saturday as he stumped in the shadow of Georgia’s gold-domed capitol. The midday rally drew no more than 400 people, even as Rubio packed a stadium a half-hour away in Kennesaw with thousands of cheering supporters.
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No kidding Sherlock.
Cruz is being set up by his Super Pac and the GOPe to get as many delegates as possible on Tuesday and then cut him off. And Glenn Beck is part of the set-up.
Cruz probably knows that the Super Pac money is going to be cut off soon and is just trying to keep a brave face and do what his Super Pac and GOPe is telling him to do until he’s cut off.
Cruz is intelligent but lacks(Excuse me) “Charisma.” He has alienated his peers in the Senate(One can be principled and friendly.) I would vote for him is he obtained the Republican nomination.
Cruz now knows he has no viable road to the nomination, he now serves one purpose, to help the RNC,DNC, and Rubio.
RNC not DNC.
RNC = DNC for all intents and purposes.
Cruz saw the south as one-dimensional cliches, and thought that he only needed to win Iowa, place in NH, and then it would be an easy ride because the south will vote for whomever was the most outwardly religious and had the most country twang in their voice.
I was at the Cruz rally and the 400 people turnout is an OUTRIGHT LIE!!!! I imagine it was put out by the Trump or Rubio boot lickers.
They haven’t voted yet. This is like calling Florida for Gore. Rotten media.
Cruz is trending toward 50% in Texas, which means 155 delegates, by far the biggest win on Super Tuesday. He’s also looking good in Arkansas.
Trump is obviously the front-runner, but this will remain a 3-way race for a while.
Next development:
Trump had a lot of trouble denouncing the ardent support he’s getting from David Duke & the entire White Nationalist movement when talking with Jake Tapper on Meet the Press today. As we speak, Rubio’s campaign & Super-Pac are cutting this interview into commercials, to flood the Florida and other markets.
This ain’t over yet.
Do you expect a big city liberal paper to report the truth?
how many did he have?
What would we do without all these media geniuses?
Typical Dallas Mourning Snooze backstabbing.
In a normal election year Cruz would have won the Tennessee primary...
but this is not a normal election year...
nothing in America is normal this year and the voters cannot for the sake of our country act like it is business as usual...
Tennessee therefore is going with Trump...
Trump should win here on Tuesday...
283,000 Tennesseans have already voted during our 2 week early voting which ended on Feb 23...
adding in the absentee ballots etc there were a total of 385,000...a record..that number beats 2008...2012 we had nobody to vote for ...
Most of those 385,000 I hope chose Trump...
I saw Cruz speak in Greenville SC.last November. I loved his message but he came across as mean spirited and whiney. He simply is not electable in this age of media and personality.
in deluded minds
Cruz isn’t trending toward 50% in Texas.
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