Nothing that you claim here contradicts what DigitalC and iiandyiiii said, Cruz must know that it is more likely that Hillary will win, but Trump will get so many voters that he can not afford to alienate them no longer. Must get ready for 2020.
Half of them are, the other half are of the “I got mine, …you can go suffer” guys that are not morons, but smart and evil. The ones that indeed look more to keep the status quo at the cost of harming many more in the future.
To be sure, a lot of Cruz’s voters are also Trump voters. But if Trump had revealed himself to be a complete joke of a candidate, if he had been throttled at the polls the way a lot of pundits and SDMB posters speculated, then we’re not having this conversation, are we? Does anyone not remember these discussions about the race being over, whether Trump would finish the race, whether Trump would do the debates? 'Cause I do.
This isn’t a coincidence. That Trump voters might also be Cruz voters is nothing new – that was known in August. Hell it was known in July when he deliberately told a crowd to vote their conscience. What has changed? What’s changed is that Trump is no longer dead in the water. He’s actually proven that he has staying power. And the longer Trump has staying power, the longer he stays competitive and is seen not as a joke but as someone who actually can win the race and stop Hillary Clinton and give conservatives their long awaited chance to punch liberals in the teeth, then the more likely it is that conservatives actually start convincing themselves that maybe it’s okay to vote for Trump after all.
Cruz has realized that his “I told you so moment” is not to be. He can still attempt to credibly argue that his endorsement meant something and possibly pushed Trump closer to victory. But he’s afraid that Trump could win without Cruz – and he could.
That’s a pile of crap. Cruz could easily have stayed on the sidelines. Except for the nuttiest section of Trump’s polling numbers, nobody would begrudge Cruz holding his own grudge with a guy who called his dad a murderer and his wife ugly. Outside of the heat from some party officials, the public had largely forgotten about Cruz’s failure to jump on the Trump train. He didn’t need to do endorse Trump to win that section of the party on his next run.
The “I told you so” moment would have been a bonus but it’s unlikelyhood is not remotely a good enough reason to flush his strength of character down the toilet.
Now this is a pile of crap. Cruz didn’t stay on the sidelines, and people did begrudge Cruz for staying on the sidelines. He just assumed that Trump would fall flat on his as it appeared he would. He didn’t.
I see so much of what he has said being spun. As a marketer, I see the manipulation machine in full force around him. They call him a racist, yet nobody can show me a single racist thing he has said.
They call him a masogynist, yet I have not seen a single statement that degrades womankind.
Hillary however, has been proven a liar, a security threat, and the coincidences behind all of the deaths connected to her are incontrovertible.
Trump is not backed by the Rockefellers, Trump is not the very government we want to abolish.
I will proudly vote Trump and I will continue to educate and convert the parents in my daughter’s school, one at a time.
Clinton is winning but not by as much as you’re suggesting here. What matters is RCP averages and electoral college in four way race. That’s it. Nothing else. And using that calculus, Clinton is hanging on to a slight lead, and has gained a little bit of breathing room since Trump’s birther problems resurfaced (as I predicted before 538 showed the shift). But it’s essentially up for grabs at this point.
Meh, I predicted several months ago that this was gong to be close, but not as close as Obama had, at this time in 2012 Obama struggled with many polls to keep ahead of Romney by 2 in the aggregates. The thing that keeps me cautiously optimistic is what one analyst reported in the morning tv news yesterday, that Trump has not been able to be ahead in the aggregates. Not as constant as Clinton nor often.
I’ll just start there and let others handle the rest if they have the energy.
–In May, Trump implied that Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge presiding over a class action against the for-profit Trump University, could not fairly hear the case because of his Mexican heritage.
–When asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper if he would condemn Duke and say he didn’t want a vote from him or any other white supremacists, Trump claimed that he didn’t know anything about white supremacists or about Duke himself. When Tapper pressed him twice more, Trump said he couldn’t condemn a group he hadn’t yet researched.
–Long before calling Mexican immigrants “criminals” and “rapists,” Trump was a leading proponent of “birtherism,” the racist conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and is thus an illegitimate president. Trump claimed in 2011 to have sent people to Hawaii to investigate whether Obama was really born there. He insisted at the time that the researchers “cannot believe what they are finding.”
That poster (pathrunner) also grossly misses how Trump decided that the women harasser Roger Ailes makes a nice addition to his staff, also ever since his hatred of the American judge with Mexican heritage was condemned even by Republicans ending with Mitt Romney declaring that Trump was justifying trickle down racism.
As for not being financed by others pathrunner has missed the news. Trump has been getting money from people that will demand results from him if he becomes president.
I agree that the polling shows that Hillary is more likely to win, but the polls also suggests that Donald can win. The only thing that matters is who comes out and votes on ONE Tuesday in early November. If Trump swings upward just enough and just at the right time, he wins.
