TedCruz came back within about four points of Trump (at times during the night, he was within three points). … TedCruz hit Donald Trump high and Marco Rubio hit Trump low. And it worked.
You can’t say Romney made it happen. … This has allowed for TedCruz to come in and siphon off votes from him, Ben Carson (who dropped out), and John Kasich (who came off…
Today TedCruz dominated in Kansas. TedCruz dominated in Maine. TedCruz dominated the CPAC straw poll. … Cruz proved he can turn out voters, which is one of Donald’s key arguments for his candidacy, with Ted taking three thousand more votes … CANDIDATE | DELEGATES
TedCruz | 68
Donald Trump | 55
Marco Rubio | 13
John Kasich | 9
Ted. TedCruz is in the lead.…
TedCruz is in second place with around 23% of the vote, and Marco Rubio has between 19-20%. … CST, TedCruz has made it a 6-point race. … TedCruz had a stellar day-of showing, outperforming the polling and the expectations to close the gap significantly.…
Cruz is having a huge weekend. We’ll tally all his wins shortly.
TedCruz: 8,550 votes. Kasich: 2270. … Cruz: 12. Trump: 9. Kasich 2. … Cruz won about three thousand more votes this year than the total number of votes in the 2012 primary.…
last caucuses have (finally) closed in Maine, and based on early results, the Ace of Spades Decision Desk has already called it for Cruz … If this result holds, it would be an absolutely stunning win for TedCruz and would be the first piece of evidence that Cruz has the … This could be the second step in a very good night for TedCruz.…
TedCruz won the straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday. … Cruz won 40 percent of the attendees’ support, while Sen. Marco Rubio came in second place with 30 percent. … John Kasich had 8 percent:
TedCruz – 40%
Marco Rubio – 30%
Donald Trump – 15%
John Kasich – 8%
In 2012, the last CPAC straw poll…
TedCruz did. He said he was going to sew up the nomination on Super Tuesday. I ended up beating him in Virginia. … His casting of Super Tuesday as a Cruz defeat is ludicrous.…
TedCruz to be the Winner of the Kansas Republican Caucus. … With about 25% of the vote in Cruz leads with 49% of the vote:
TedCruz – 50.0%
Donald Trump – 25.8%
Marco Rubio – 13,6%
John Kasich…
AoSHQDD has called the race for TedCruz, with Donald Trump in second, and Marco Rubio in third. … The margin suggests that neither TedCruz nor Marco Rubio* wasted their time over the last two weeks. … Whether you’re a TedCruz OR a Marco Rubio supporter, you probably have something in common with that Marco Rubio OR TedCruz supporter…
As has been noted earlier, TedCruz is demolishing the opposition, he’s at over 50% at this writing, and it showed in the raucous welcome … Most people in this crowd seem to be Cruz supporters!…
People can spin all the yarns they want to about states “tailor made” for Rubio and “lanes” and why Cruz can’t win, but the fact remains … In the Mobile-Pensacola market, Trump won 47 percent of the vote while Cruz and Rubio tied at 19 percent. … First, Rubio is going to get thrashed in north Florida and the presence of TedCruz to draw votes away from Trump is a big help to…
The stakes have been raised by Ted Cruz’s announcement that he’s opening 10 offices in Florida. … Anyway, offices are cheap, the brand-new Cruz offices may not even be operational yet, and Cruz has a lot of money; there are three … Non-white voters were 12% of the primary in Georgia, and Rubio won them 34-29-19-14-3 vs Trump-Cruz-Carson-Kasich, while tying Cruz…
In every closed primary so far, TedCruz has over performed and Donald Trump has underperformed. … Someone – most likely TedCruz – needs to win at least half these contests today and preferably three. … Three of the electorates Cruz is facing are tailor-made for him and the primaries are closed.…
TedCruz knocked the crowd’s socks off at CPAC on Friday night. … And it happens to be Ted Cruz’s message. And the speech above is a fantastic course in how to deliver it. … Between the debate and CPAC, Senator Cruz is having a presidential week.…
Marco Rubio backers had been hoping after two debates in which Rubio and TedCruz tag-teamed Donald Trump and played rather nice … This is not to be:
The Florida duel between Donald Trump and Marco Rubio has a new player: TedCruz. … As I’ve said on a couple occasions in posts, the name of the game for TedCruz and Marco Rubio is not “Stop Trump.”…
If a child is fussy on the campaign trail and shows it, the press play it endlessly. Even worse, liberal blogs and liberal jerks on social media are complete pricks about it. Snarky, scummy, jerks, per their nature. Partly this is because so many of them are soulless, childless, godless...
In alphabetical order:
TedCruz: won this debate. … I particularly enjoyed watching TedCruz keep treating Trump like a petulant child who needed to use his words. … He kept getting into Trump’s head, knocking him off-balance, so that TedCruz could smack him again and again. …
WINNERS
Senator TedCruz: Tonight’s big winner was clearly and indisputably TedCruz. … But TedCruz stepped in and in a few sentences buried that corpse, salted the earth, and wiped the name and location from this history … Cruz:
Sen. Rubio:…
Paul LePage orders the Maine National Guard to take TedCruz and his family into custody and send their asses back to the Great White … TedCruz (R-Texas) to be president, citing it as a key reason he decided to throw his support behind Donald Trump. … LePage said he didn’t think Cruz could be president because he believed his daughters were also ineligible.
“They can’t.…
Trump would be much more likely that either Cruz or Rubio to let the gravy train continue to run. … Alex Castellanos, who only last month was trashing TedCruz, has surfaced and advocating surrender:
“It is too late,” Republican…