What is Cruz afraid of?
Posted on 04/20/2016 8:23:27 PM PDT by writer33
Wednesday while campaigning in Hershey PA, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)said his rival Donald Trump was “afraid of a debate” with him because he lacked “substantive solutions” on policy.
Cruz said, “What I agree is that the Democratic process works, and Donald whines and complains when the voters reject him. The voters are going to decide. We’ve won five states in a row. Donald won his home state, which surprised nobody. And it’s the people — we are seeing Republicans uniting behind our campaign. Because if Donald is the nominee, Hillary wins and she wins by double digits. The stakes for our country are too great to continue down this disastrous economic road and this foreign policy that empowers our enemies. And so I couldn’t be more encouraged at seeing the unity we are having across the country. Donald’s desperation had everyone wanting to just give him the race. It shows that he’s scared when the people decide. You know, if Donald had confidence in his positions, we’d have a debate in Pennsylvania, before Pennsylvania votes. What is Donald Trump saying to the people of Pennsylvania that he thinks they don’t deserve a debate? What does it say about the corrupt big government Democrats that they’re willing to have debates. That Hillary Clinton is more willing to have her positions challenged than Donald Trump? I think that’s disgraceful. I think any candidate owes it to the voters to defend their positions.
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I know! How many hundred of the damn things do they need to do?
Trump’s a businessman. I see no evidence of leading that he’s showed anywhere on the campaign trail. None whatsoever.
LOL
When he gets to 1237, he’ll be the nominee. Until then he’s just another candidate running in the primaries.
No actually Trump has had 25 hours of debating bozos Jeb and Marco on the stage with him, that Trump used alternately as a punching bag and distraction to prevent having to talk substance on many issues.
Only when it got down to four was Trump forced to defend his non conservative positions at length against Cruz. And Trump fared badly and won’t debate since.
And not just credibility, but when you're ahead, you have a lot more to lose than to gain. Why risk doing something that might (somehow) change the status quo? When you're behind, you have little to nothing to lose.
Make your case to Jim Rob, not to me.
What is Cruz afraid of?
I’m really confused by what you wrote here. Can you explain it please?
Not making my case to anyone. Just pointing out the facts.
Trump has never had to worry about getting face time on TV—he gets more when he doesn’t have to share it with anybody
All Cruz is, is a masterdebater. Give it up Ted.
I see no evidence of coherent thought in your post.
Confused by what?
Nailed It !
If Cruz can’t debate Trump adequately within 25+ hours of stage time, he’s inept and incompetent.
Dam it, that Trump’s good.....he turned Ted Cruz into Jeb Bush right before our very eyes.
16 posted on 4/15/2016, 7:42:54 AM by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal’s mind. Nothing’s there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
Those aren’t debates anyway. Moderated by political partisans who become as much a part of the debate as the debaters.
And the scant time they give you to answer! “Candidate X, please provide us the details of your plan to rescue the country from financial ruin. You have sixty seconds to answer....”
Let me explain it for you with a little more detail. When the first candidate running for POTUS on the Republican side gets to 1237 delegates, he is then the nominee of the party.
But it is a sad state of affairs when Hillary Clinton, who is leading in the Democratic Primaries, has more a pair on her than Donald Trump. And that’s the reality.
It makes him appear that he is afraid to debate whether he is or not.
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