For the Democrats, Bernie Sanders knows Secretary Hillary Clinton has the edge in the south and took a crash course through Texas as volunteers try to make an upset.
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GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz spoke to reporters on March 1, 2016, in Houston after voting in the Texas primary.
The campaign – which once talked of tallying victories across the South – now feels the most confident about notching a win in Cruz’s home state of Texas, where he held rallies in Dallas, San Antonio and his hometown of Houston on Monday.
Winning his home state is critical with 155 delegates up for grabs on Super Tuesday.
Cruz called Super Tuesday the biggest day so far of this primary season.
There was the 2013 fight against an immigration reform bill, which Cruz described in the words of Alamo commander William Barret Travis as a “line in the sand”.
Cruz is also infusing his speeches with populism and painting Trump as unsafe to low-income Americans looking for work, citing reports that Trump hired foreign workers over American ones. “We are locked in tight races”, he said.
“With Donald Trump, Lord knows what he’s going to do, and I think that’s of concern to most thoughtful individuals”, said former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Cruz supporter who abandoned his own bid for the Republican nomination last summer.
Scott Ragno, 39, another Trump supporter from Fort Worth, said Trump’s tone on immigration was attractive. “And I think that would be a grave mistake both for the Republican Party and for the country”, Cruz told a conference of religious broadcasters in Nashville. He got 42 percent of support in a CBS News poll released on Sunday, compared to 31 percent for Trump.
This was intended as a protest against Mr. Trump; some Cruz admirers felt differently.
After a stinging defeat in SC, a drop in national polling and a fade to the background in news cycles, Ted Cruz came home to Texas this week and talked about his many battles. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), a Cruz ally, served to emphasize Cruz needs a win – and a big one.
He said the group has used email pleas, door-knocking, and old-fashioned word-of-mouth to win votes.
The campaign also stepped up attacks against Trump. At his rallies, he recounts incidents where Americans were killed by illegal immigrants. Well that 90 day strategy seems to be working, but for Trump instead of the Texas Senator.
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Cruz’s rally at Gilley’s in Dallas on Monday was among 12 stops in three days as he tried to mobilize grass roots to take down Trump. “Nobody who supports open-border Democrats for 40 years can care about securing the borders”.
