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  • Cruz can still stop Trump. Here’s how.
    Tuesday had been billed as “Armageddon Tuesday” because of the effects it would have on the GOP presidential field. And certainly, for Sen. Marco Rubio (more about that below), Tuesday lived up to the Armageddon moniker.

    On the surface, Tuesday appeared to be a runaway victory for Donald Trump. With the exception of Ohio, where Gov. John Kasich won, Trump had a great night. Or maybe it’s not that simple, according to an in-depth analysis at RedState. “Trump is only a little more than halfway to the delegates he needs, and is still behind the pace; he can still be beaten, but the only way that happens is if everyone who wants to stop Trump unites behind Ted Cruz.”

    Stopping Trump is an integral part of the Republican Party’s chances for success in November because, as the article notes: “Trump still isn’t winning majorities, and in most states is pretty far from them. And worse than that: the number of Republican primary voters Tuesday who said they’d consider voting third party in a Trump-Hillary race – even against one of the most long-hated figures by Republicans everywhere – was 45% in Ohio, 43% in Illinois, 43% in Missouri, 39% in North Carolina, and 29% in Florida. And large numbers of Republican voters in each state already think Trump is not honest and trustworthy: 55% in Ohio, 51% in Illinois, 49% in North Carolina, 48% in Missouri, 44% in Florida.”

    Think about that for a moment. Trump is often considered the runaway front-runner, but he isn’t winning majorities and in prospective head-to-head matchups with Hillary Clinton, he regularly gets blown out. The idea of the inevitability of his candidacy and the notion that he will be able to defeat Hillary Clinton in November are both seriously in question when one examines the polling data with an unbiased eye.

    Trump’s high unfavorability numbers should concern GOP voters as the primary season continues, especially in an election year where GOP voters really want to defeat Hillary Clinton and begin to reverse the damage caused by President Obama’s agenda over the past eight years. The good news is that nothing is set in stone at this point. Contrary to what the mainstream media is “reporting,” Trump does not have to emerge as the GOP nominee, and based on the delegate count at this point, it seems unlikely that he will go to the RNC convention in July with the requisite 1,237 delegates.

    The full analysis is available at RedState: Ted Cruz or Bust: Armageddon Tuesday By The Numbers
 
 
  • Rubio exits the presidential field.
    Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s campaign had been sputtering along for months leading up to Tuesday’s primary elections in five states, and after disappointing results in his home state, Sen. Rubio finally called it quits. We have described in previous newsletters Rubio’s struggle to gain his footing – failing to find a natural constituency and never managing to get much traction with donors or grassroots supporters. His sole victories occurred in Minnesota, the territory of Puerto Rico (which is ineligible to vote in the general election), and Washington, D.C. (home of the Establishment wing of the GOP). In other words, his wins added up to, well, not a whole lot, actually.

    But give the man credit where credit is due. When he’s on, he can sing like Sinatra.

    In his speech announcing his decision to suspend his campaign, Sen. Rubio called on Americans to reject the politics of fear and frustration in order to retain what makes the United States a “special” place. The speech was a good reminder to tea party supporters about the tremendous role we have played in the past few election cycles and that, while this election cycle is a reflection of the widespread dismay Americans feel at the Establishment, we can nevertheless find common ground in our shared belief in the American Dream.  

    His speech’s conclusion reads, in part: “I ask the American people: Do not give in to the fear. Do not give in to the frustration. We can disagree about public policy, we can disagree about it vibrantly, passionately. But we are a hopeful people, and we have every right to be hopeful. For we in this nation are the descendants of go-getters. In our veins runs the blood of people who gave it all up so we would have the chances they never did. We are all the descendants of someone who made our future the purpose of their lives. We are the descendants of pilgrims. We are the descendants of Settlers. We are the descendants of men and women that headed westward in the Great Plains, not knowing what awaited them. We are the descendants of slaves who overcame that horrible institution to stake their claim in the American Dream. We are the descendants of immigrants and exiles who knew and believed that they were destined for more, and that there was only one place on earth where that was possible. This is who we are, and let us fight to ensure that this is who we remain. For if we lose that about our country, we will still be rich and we will still be powerful, but we will no longer be special.”

    And now that Sen. Rubio is out of the presidential race, he has made some very encouraging comments about Sen. Cruz, calling him “the only true conservative left in the race.” While Sen. Rubio has not officially endorsed Sen. Cruz, those words serve as an important “soft endorsement” for the Texas Senator who just last week picked up the endorsement of another Senate colleague, Utah Sen. Mike Lee.

    The entire text of Sen. Rubio’s speech can be read at Los Angeles Times: Marco Rubio: 'I ask the American people: Do not give in to the fe...and for more on what he said about Sen. Cruz, see Politico: Rubio: Cruz 'only true conservative left in the race'
 
 
  • GOP settles in for protracted nomination battle. 
    Despite the narrowing field of presidential candidates, the GOP is preparing for a long nomination battle. The GOP’s convention will be held in July in Cleveland, OH, and now that it is already mid-March, the higher-ups within the Republican Party are officially in panic mode. The plan (and the fervent hope!) had been all along that the nominating process would settle down and that by the time March rolled around, there would be a single candidate (preferably not named Donald Trump) emerging as the clear frontrunner.

    With the convention now just four months away, Politico reports that “some are getting ready for a prolonged, grind-it-out fight that could go on for weeks or even months.”

    Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Trump’s most serious competitor, “has been particularly aggressive, launching an ambitious, cross-country effort to influence local Republican Party meetings where delegates to the national convention are being selected.” Sen. Cruz’s purpose is simple: making sure that each state sends “Cruz-friendly” delegates to Cleveland. 

    While the task of identifying and securing pro-Cruz delegates might sound like an overwhelmingly daunting task, it is a project for which the Cruz campaign is uniquely suited. Politico points out that “[t]he nature of the delegate-selection process — a hyperlocal one that typically begins at the city or county level and is finalized at a state gathering — plays to the strengths of the Cruz campaign, which prides itself on its micro-targeting and number-crunching abilities. Chris Wilson, Cruz’s director of research and analytics, is helping to oversee the push, as is Saul Anuzis, a former Michigan Republican Party chairman who is steeped in the art of contested conventions.”

    For more on the long fight ahead and more details on Cruz’s strategy to secure delegates, see Politico: Republicans prep for long, ugly nomination fight
 
 
  • Changes to binding delegates “unlikely.”
    And on the topic of the long fight to secure the GOP nomination, one of the recurring issues that we have reported in past newsletters surrounds the question of rules changes for the convention. In particular, one North Dakota Republican National Committeeman, Curly Haugland, has argued that any delegate at the convention should be allowed to support any candidate on the first round of balloting, despite the outcome of the primary election in the delegate’s state. That suggested plan of action, of course, would add additional chaos and craziness to what is already sure to be a chaotic and crazy convention.

    But at least one person finds Mr. Haugland’s proposed plan unlikely to go anywhere. Morton Blackwell, longtime member of the RNC’s Standing Rules Committee, and current Republican National Committee man from Virginia, spoke with The Daily Caller this week and explained that he believes “it’s highly unlikely that anything relating to the binding of delegations or binding delegates is going to be altered.”

    For more on this story, see Daily Caller: RNC Rules Member: Changes To Binding Delegates ‘Unli...
 
  • Trump and Kasich wimp out of next debate, so FOX News wimps out and cancels, too. 
    On Wednesday, Donald Trump announced that he would be skipping the Fox News debate scheduled for March 21st in Salt Lake City, Utah. The result? A domino effect. Shortly after Trump’s announcement, Ohio Gov. John Kasich announced that he, too, would not participate in the debate. In response, Michael Clemente, the FOX News executive in charge of the debate, released a statement: "Obviously, there needs to be more than one participant. So the Salt Lake City debate is canceled."

    Donald Trump, the candidate in this race least afraid of jettisoning political rulebooks, has already skipped one debate, so this makes two debates he has decided to blow off. And the excuse he is using this time is odd, to say the least. Mr. Trump says he was unaware of the debate (bad staffing issue?), and that he is already scheduled to speak before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), “a very important group of people,” as Trump put it. But then, after making the case that he was skipping the debate because of a scheduling conflict, Trump reversed course and suggested the real reason he would not be on the debate stage is that he is tired of debates. “I think we've had enough debates. How many times can you answer the same question?"

    Sen. Ted Cruz apparently shares our skepticism about Donald Trump’s decision to bail on the debate. On Wednesday night, Sen.Cruz said on FOX New’s “The Kelly File” that Trump’s excuse “is silliness and it reflects his assumption that he thinks the voters can't figure out that he's not telling them the truth." 

    For more, see CNN Money: Fox News cancels GOP debate after Donald Trump pulls out  AND The Hill: Cruz slams Trump for skipping GOP debate

 
That’s all for this newsletter. Keep fighting for freedom!

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More hopes and wishes from the establishment types.

* Trump whatever his shortcomings, imagined or real, is audacious; Cruz, another DC politico, most emphatically is not and voters know it!!! Cruz ain't going anywhere.

* So wee Rubio is gone and prediction here is that this is the last we'll hear from this weenie, in national politics, unless he's planning to reprise Wendel Wilkie every 4 years. Good riddance to another DC schmuck who got 26% of the Florida vote.Wow.

*Kasich is another in an endless line of progressive lefties from Ohio in the mold of Hanna and Taft. Simply a high pitched jerk, who can't control his hands. He has less presidential stature than Millard Fillmore or that clown, George the Compassionate.

*Trump wins easily on the first ballot and heads explode. Have plenty of cotton gauze and iodine available as well as an ambulance in the driveway.

Cruz was the tea Party favorite sent to DC to right the wrongs and he got eviscerated by both sides. You parrot CNN propagandists bent on keeping Christians from holding office, voting, supporting Jews, and existing.

Tea Party has egg on face  because Cruz showed how he is Career politician like I said and jumped in bed ight againwith the establishment...He was an easy read.  I was right again....

Yep, So now Tea Party and establishment holding hands...End of Tea Party for sure..

Shrewd observation and on the mark.

Predictably, the most apoplectic and frenzied animus toward Trump comes from various Tea Party sites, where their neurosis has moved past the psychosis stage to a mega level of paranoia; opening up a new field for medical research.

I am not apoplectic towards anyone as that implies rage. If you wish to insult me rather than hear my opinion you should blog over at the Huffington Post where you may feel more at home.

I was emphatically NOT referring,either directly or indirectly, to anyone on the "We the People" site.

TED CRUZ....THE SELFISH POLITICIAN WHO SHUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN TO MAKE A NAME FOR HIMSELF....THAT IS THE TRUTH OF IT...

Heidi Cruz is the high-powered political spouse we've rarely seen since Hillary Clinton
Cruz is not the only Republican spouse this cycle with notable professional accomplishments. Mary Pat Christie was a longtime bond trader before quitting after her husband declared his candidacy, and she, too, has helped raise money. Karen Kasich spent nearly 20 years working in public relations, and Frank Fiorina was a telecommunications executive.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/meet-heidi-cruz-hard-chargi...

Don't take up the mantra of your own enemies, everything out their mouths is below suspect.

At the time I and many were of a mind that shutting it down for good was an excellent idea and cannot suppose to know the motives of Cruz.

I will give the man his due, at least he stood up even it was in retrospect more show than substance. I have only one real problem with the man and that is just he doesn't meet the qualifications laid out in the document of which he claims to be a scholar. In short he knows good and well and does it anyway so there is a character reveal a guy like him cant withstand. 

the problem with shutting down the government is simple, they didn't leave it shut down. Shut down to prove a point does not work unless you hold your ground. The house , for example, hold the monies of the nation, but they cave, every time

That was done to stand up to the elite.
You have been brainwashed.

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