TedCruz saw his “SEC firewall” melt, finished third with fewer votes than Marco Rubio across the South, and faces a long march into … But it underlines the extent to which TedCruz depends on a particular type of voter that may be harder and harder to find in the states … Somewhat Conservative” and Moderate voters in Texas than in the other 12 states, and when you back out Texas, you see that TedCruz…
Cruz much like the Devil reacts to Holy Water but with pettiness thrown in. … Brit Hume is pretty much like Wallace:
TedCruz going on about all the fights he has led in Washington. … Cruz as a “pussy” was the death knell of any remaining semblance of good breeding in American political life.)…
But let me put my wet blanket aside for a minute and focus on how TedCruz might win. … TedCruz must win Kentucky, Kansas and Louisiana on Saturday. Saturday is Ted Cruz’s proof of concept. … It’s a difficult path that TedCruz has to walk, but it can be done.…
Cruz, who’s in a distant second. … The Hayride-Magellan poll shows that Trump beats Cruz in every category except the 18-34 age group, which Cruz leads 28-27. … Here’s how the results turned out:
TedCruz: 45.4%
Donald Trump: 30.1%
Marco Rubio: 17.2%
John Kasich: 5%
Ben Carson: 2.1%
Is this…
Cruz answered. … Ted Cruz’s answer came in the form of a text response:
School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century. … You can also see the responses to Moe Lane’s question on Supreme Court Justices here (Cruz) and here (Rubio).…
TedCruz is not Lindsey Graham’s favorite colleague. … TedCruz (R-Texas) for president if they want to save their party from Donald Trump. … “TedCruz is not my favorite by any means,” Graham said in a CBS interview.…
But it did miss Cruz+Rubio by a combined 10 points, which is pretty significant. … It missed Ted Cruz’s win and was 15 points off. It doesn’t get much more wrong than that. … It also hints that the polls artificially created the narrative of Trump catching Cruz.…
As a result of the tightness of some of those races, we now see that both TedCruz and Marco Rubio are still viable candidates. … Cruz fans will say that Rubio’s only victory in Minnesota doesn’t make him more capable of beating Trump than Cruz. … Rubio fans will claim that TedCruz has hit his wall.…
…for TedCruz. … Alaska has an open caucus, but TedCruz still picked up 36.4% of the vote to Donald Trump’s 33.5% and Marco Rubio’s 15.1%. … In isolation, that apparently works for TedCruz.
Well. Onward to the weekend. …
Not only did he lose Texas, but he also lost Oklahoma to a resurgent TedCruz. … He also lost Minnesota handily to Marco Rubio, who finally picked up his first win – and he also lost Minnesota to TedCruz. … TedCruz has good news and bad coming out of tonight.…
BREAKING: TedCruz wins Oklahoma. @AP race call at 9:05 p.m. EST. … Cruz was able to win his home state. … In Texas, TedCruz beats Donald Trump with more than 40% of the total vote.…
CNN calls Alabama for Donald Trump
CNN calls Massachusetts for Donald Trump
CNN calls Tennessee for Donald Trump
Exit polls show Ted … Cruz leading in Oklahoma – Cruz 32%, Rubio 27% and Trump 27%
Continue to watch here as more information comes in.…
Per ABC’s exit polling information, the news looks good for TedCruz in Texas, as expected:
Fewer than half of GOP voters – about … Two-thirds say they’d be satisfied with TedCruz as the nominee, a high for him among all states in which we have exit polls – compared … The big stories right now are Arkansas, where there is an indication that Cruz may be performing stronger than expected, and Virginia…
TedCruz has been trolled by Trump supporters. Trump has called on Rubio to drop out. … And now TedCruz has called on both Rubio and Carson to drop out if they don’t win a state today. … TedCruz on Tuesday suggested that GOP rivals Marco Rubio and Ben Carson should drop out of the presidential race if they don’t win…
The Trump phenomenon,” a reference to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, who polls show enjoying a massive lead over rivals Marco Rubio, Ted … Cruz and others among Massachusetts Republican voters.…
The rumors have one thing in common: they are designed to hurt TedCruz, the only Trump opponent who might plausibly win a state today … The first one it that TedCruz has made a deal that he will drop out of the race in favor of Marco Rubio in exchange for a nomination … Apparently TedCruz has offered to drop out of the POTUS race in exchange for a supreme court appointment.…
49, Hillary 48 (Cruz +1; was Cruz +3 in the prior poll)
Yet again, as we have seen repeatedly, Rubio wins, Trump loses, and Cruz … He’d carry men 54-41, a smaller margin than Rubio or Cruz. … Like Hillary, Trump, and Cruz, he’s unpopular in the West.…
While Ben Sasse was doing this, TedCruz was saying that he was a man of his word and would support a Trump candidacy, if it comes … Cruz answered by saying, “I will support the Republican nominee but I’m working very hard and I intend for that Republican nominee … right candidate, then I ask you to come together behind our campaign…ours is the only one in a position to beat Donald Trump…”
Cruz…
similar analysis would show, if for slightly different reasons, why Rubio would run better against Bernie Sanders than Trump and why Ted … Cruz or one of the two pretend GOP “candidates” would run better than Trump against either. … A vote for Rubio (or for Cruz) is a vote to defeat her.…
