Cruz keeps dropping in the polls...the voters are turning against him. He can only make deals with some delegates. He will not win the nomination..totally impossible now but raises the question of why is he doing this?
He started out ok..great conservative senator but then went on to be Ron/Rand Paul weird as he adopted their followers...now he is waaay out there and folks just dont trust him. he couldnt even get over 50% in his home state.
RE: Cruz keeps dropping in the polls...the voters are turning against him.
My issue is not with the polls but with how people want to see what they want to see in them. When the poll show that Trump has a 67% UN-favorability, his supporters call this poll BUNK even when more than one poll from other sources corroborates the most recent one.
So, if Cruz is dropping in the polls, and we should believe the polls, why should we not believe the polls when it shows a 67% disapproval?
Is it because we only want to believe what CONFIRMS what we already wish the results to be?
RE: ... raises the question of why is he doing this?
The answer is simple -— Because he wants to be the Republican nominee.
The more important question is this — Is he working within the publicly stated rules to become the Republican nominee? Are the rules spelled out clearly? Did he violate any of them with what he’s doing ? were these rules already in place long before the 2016 elections?
If he passes all the above test, I fail to see why people would call it cheating.
“So long as Trump is short of 1237, Cruz (and the field) aren’t “done”.”
“He will not win the nomination..totally impossible now but raises the question of why is he doing this?”
See Okie’s statement above. (Although I’m not sure who the “field” are, unless s/he’s so desperate that s/he thinks that at a Cleveland 3-ring circus the RNC is going to put a laurel wreath on the brow of Cruz, Rubio or another loser.)
You see it in counteless thread comments. Even Cruz’s supporters now recognize, and apparently ratify his role as—I’ve been using the word “spoiler” but it is no longer strong enough, so ... Cruz’s role assigned to him by his RNC masters is not just to stop Trump but—like McCain, Romney, Bush III, Rubio—to serve as their latest “conservative ****-blocker.”
Contested convention. `Ringer’ candidate, I’m thinking Ryan, since he’s blowing the same, “Oh my goodness, why, I could never ... “ coy smoke he blew when the Wisconsin Mini-me replaced Ohio’s Dr. Evil.
So there goes the WH and Senate, and McConnell, Ryan, Priebus & Co. keep their hoity-toity jobs; ominously, the stage is set for Obama’s CWII.
But the important thing is that Cruz’s overweening ambition is played-out to the bitter end, even if he has a snowball’s chance of winning.
Where do you find these polls that you cite?
Must be in trumpville ... because the polls I see show an extremely rocky road for Trump to the nomination.
No one but the most delusional trumper could believe that he will get the votes he needs to avoid a contested convention.
And Cruz’s team is working hard to pick up the uncommitted delegates from other candidates.
There is no law that says Trump couldn’t do the same thing but he’s too lazy and uncoordinated and he never hires people smarter than himself, which leaves him with dumb people on his staff.