Cruz is about to lose 7 states straight where Trump will increase his total by 200 more delegates. Cruz lost big on the March 1st and then lost big on March 15th, which made caucus state like CO, WY insignificant. It’s been really over for Cruz since mid-March.
He will easily make the 1237 without the caucus states.
I have never been more chomping-at-the-bit to go vote.
I considered early voting but decided that showing up at the poll was more satisfying.
Tuesday cannot come soon enough.
Either you jump on the Trump Train of it will mow you down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgM2xN5TPgw
It hasn’t been over for Cruz since mid-March. On the contrary, he cobbled together enough delegates to eat significantly into Trump’s lead and to significantly reduce Trump’s chances of making it to 1237. I am NOT saying Cruz is going to get to 1237 or that he is beating Trump or any nonsense like that. But numerically, he has accomplished enough to make a strong play for a contested convention where his chances will be much better than where he is now. I know there is good reason to expect the GOPe to throw up every obstacle in front of Cruz just as much as Trump, but I think between the two of them, the party is not going to be able to stop one of them from getting the nomination.
This is not an anti-Trump rant or a Cruz sellout post. I’m just offering discussion on the point you made.
In the Republican presidential primary in New York, the Sun urges a vote for Senator Ted Cruz. It hasn’t been our normal practice to endorse in the primaries, but this year the vote, set for Tuesday, will take on outsized importance as we career toward a contested convention. The junior senator from Texas has emerged from a crowded field by dint of his fidelity to principles — limited, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a strong foreign policy — that couldn’t be at higher premium. They are the true New York Values.
Our endorsement is not animated by hostility to either Donald Trump or Governor Kasich, both of whom are running well ahead of Mr. Cruz in the polls in New York. All three are better on key issues than either Secretary Clinton or Senator Sanders. We like Mr. Trump’s willingness to re-think the United Nations. We’re not against better trade deals. We are against a retreat from NATO, and Mr. Trump has been too xenophobic in his use of language in respect of religion and the immigration issue. Mr. Cruz, a former solicitor general of the border state of Texas, has been more sage.
The first thing we are looking for, in any event, is a candidate who grasps, is committed to, and is excited by America’s constitutional principles. The Constitution ought to be a unifying instrument; it is, after all, the only thing that all of our legislators, officers, and judges — from the President to the county sheriffs — must be bound by oath to support. Our ideal candidate is someone who thinks in constitutional terms and who references and reveres the principles in our national parchment.
On this head, Senator Cruz laps the field. He has done a better job than any other Republican at building a constitutional approach. He has also done a better job on the economy, though we wish that all candidates in both parties would grasp that the bitterness over illegal immigration into America can be permanently addressed only by economic growth. It is not the abundance of labor that has stunted our progress but rather the dead hand of government upon our economy.
Mr. Cruz has put forth a more principled approach to taxes than another fine senator, Marco Rubio. Mr. Cruz’s flat tax is more strategic, more equitable, more pro-growth. Both Mr. Cruz and Mr. Trump would seek the cuts in corporate taxes that have exiled to foreign countries trillions of dollars in corporate reserves. But Mr. Cruz has been far ahead of any other candidate in marking what for us is an essential element restoring American growth and employment — monetary reform.
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.... New York, in 1788, ratified the Constitution only on the caveat that a Bill of Rights would be included. Those are the true New York values, and Mr. Cruz has been the most faithful to them in the current campaign.
Source: New York Sun | April 15, 2016 | Editorial of The New York Sun
Cruzers cling to to those little micro wins like its going to make a difference. Its not. Cruz is done. His poll numbers are dropping. He’s going to get schlonged in 5-7 primaries in a row. Soon Ted will need to start plotting his exit strategy.