So who could stop Cruz from getting the nomination?
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THE GOAL: Here Cruz is trying to get on Trump’s nerves by suggesting that the self-styled victor isn’t really winning.
Cruz has acknowledged failing to disclose to a federal campaign agency loans from Goldman Sachs and Citibank for his 2012 Senate race – although he did list them on a separate Senate form.
Trump about 1,500 people at a rally at a Las Vegas resort that Cruz is too strident to make deals.
“Palin’s brand among evangelicals is as gold as the faucets in Trump tower”, Ralph Reed, the chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, told The New York Times.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, may gave felt snubbed by outsider darling Sarah Palin’s embrace of Donald Trump but now he’s got conservative firebrand Glenn Beck in his corner.
“I think Super Tuesday is going to be a great day for our campaign”, he said later, “where conservatives say we don’t want someone who will view the role of president as ‘Let’s expand the role of Washington”.
On CBS This Morning, correspondent Major Garrett touted: “Republican elder statesmen Bob Dole, the 1996 presidential nominee, also signaled a preference for Trump, especially if the only other alternative was Cruz. ‘I question his allegiance to the party, ‘ Dole said about Cruz”. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, is in third at 14%, the only other Republican in double digits.
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In most recent elections, Republicans have tended to nominate center-right candidates who were seen as having the best prospects in the general election. Democratic caucus-goers said they trust the Vermont senator over Clinton on the economy by 22 points, and 67% said they thought he would do more to help the middle class, as opposed to 30% who felt that way about Clinton. In three national polls, voters would go for Trump rather than Hillary Clinton for the president and they show upwards of 20 per cent of Democrat voters would switch to vote for Trump over Clinton. “They need to stand for something or we’ll fall for anything”.
