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Cruz will not say if he'll support Trump
« on: May 01, 2016, 03:42:04 pm »
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cruz-will-not-say-if-hell-support-trump/article/2590050


Cruz will not say if he'll support Trump
By Gabby Morrongiello (@gabriellahope_) • 5/1/16 9:45 AM


Texas Sen. Ted Cruz now refuses to say whether he will support Donald Trump should the Republican presidential front-runner secure the GOP nomination.

"You've spent this entire interview trying to eviscerate Donald Trump. If he's the nominee, I take it you can't support him anymore, can you?" NBC's Chuck Todd asked the Republican hopeful during an interview Sunday morning.

"I believe if the Republican Party nominates Donald Trump we will lose to Hillary," Cruz responded.

"But are you going to support him?" Todd asked again.

"We will lose," Cruz repeated.

"I understand what you believe in the Republican Party. Can you support him?" the visibly frustrated host asked again.

"What I'm going to do is beat him," Cruz said. "I recognize that many in the media would love for me to surrender to Donald Trump because it means number one that Hillary wins."

"He may win," Todd responded. "Republican voters are the ones rejecting you, this is not a media conspiracy, senator."

Cruz continued to skirt around Todd's initial question about supporting Trump as the nominee for several minutes until the MSNBC anchor pressed him further.


"Why can't you answer the question of whether you can support Donald Trump or not?" Todd said.

"Let me finish this point I'm making," Cruz said, arguing Trump has received disproportionate airtime during the primary campaign.

"You don't get to just say that," Todd said. "You're broad brushing here, and it's — this is exactly what people hate about the media and politics, broad brushes, right?"

"Can you answer the question about whether you are going to support [Trump]?" he added.

"I am going to beat Donald Trump," Cruz said, refusing to answer the question once more.


An NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released Sunday shows Trump leading the Texas senator by 15 percentage points in Indiana, where voters are set to cast their ballots next Tuesday.
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Re: Cruz will not say if he'll support Trump
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2016, 04:08:45 pm »
Upchuck Todd repeats the laziest and most obnoxious question he can find.  This should be the final election in which candidates pledge to support the eventual nominee.  Trump has since disqualified himself, and now the other candidates are bound to shred their own credibility.  Next election, when asked the first time, just respond by saying the determination will be made after the primaries conclude.

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Re: Cruz will not say if he'll support Trump
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2016, 04:17:47 pm »
Cruz should have been better prepared for the obvious question.  He could easily said he expects to win, but if not, his support like so many will depend on how Trump represents the GOP and conservative values during the Fall campaign. 
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Re: Cruz will not say if he'll support Trump
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2016, 04:19:34 pm »
The question was a classic media trap, and Cruz was right not to answer it.

The trap is such if he had answered in the affirmative, then his campaign would have been effectively over after the full-tilt, blast-media coverage it would have been given and the demoralizing effect it would certainly have had on his supporters. If he had said "no", then he would have been depicted by the media as a crazy dead-ender. Better not to feed the Beast.
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Re: Cruz will not say if he'll support Trump
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2016, 04:20:18 pm »
The question was a classic media trap, and Cruz was right not to answer it.

The trap is such if he had answered in the affirmative, then his campaign would have been effectively over after the full-tilt, blast-media coverage it would have been given and the demoralizing effect it would certainly have had on his supporters. If he had said "no", then he would have been depicted by the media as a crazy dead-ender. Better not to feed the Beast.

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Re: Cruz will not say if he'll support Trump
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2016, 05:43:24 pm »
Will be supporting the most conservative 3rd party available.  And to those who claim it elects Hitlerly, I counter that when the orange facade comes off, the duped will find that there won't be that much difference between Trump and the witch.  Rather not have the GOP blamed for a Trump failed presidency.
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Re: Cruz will not say if he'll support Trump
« Reply #6 on: May 01, 2016, 06:39:52 pm »
I think Cruz answered the question of whether he would vote for Trump pretty clearly, without directly addressing it.

Can't say I blame the man, considering Trump's attempt to smear his wife.

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Re: Cruz will not say if he'll support Trump
« Reply #7 on: May 01, 2016, 06:45:43 pm »
Will be supporting the most conservative 3rd party available.  And to those who claim it elects Hitlerly, I counter that when the orange facade comes off, the duped will find that there won't be that much difference between Trump and the witch.  Rather not have the GOP blamed for a Trump failed presidency.

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Re: Cruz will not say if he'll support Trump
« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2016, 08:20:09 pm »
I think Cruz answered the question of whether he would vote for Trump pretty clearly, without directly addressing it.

Can't say I blame the man, considering Trump's attempt to smear his wife.

i'd be incredibly disappointed in Cruz if he gave one iota of support to Orange Charlatan.
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Re: Cruz will not say if he'll support Trump
« Reply #9 on: May 01, 2016, 08:23:13 pm »
The question was a classic media trap, and Cruz was right not to answer it.

The trap is such if he had answered in the affirmative, then his campaign would have been effectively over after the full-tilt, blast-media coverage it would have been given and the demoralizing effect it would certainly have had on his supporters. If he had said "no", then he would have been depicted by the media as a crazy dead-ender. Better not to feed the Beast.
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Re: Cruz will not say if he'll support Trump
« Reply #10 on: May 01, 2016, 11:28:31 pm »
i'd be incredibly disappointed in Cruz if he gave one iota of support to Orange Charlatan.

I wouldn't be happy with him, either.

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Re: Cruz will not say if he'll support Trump
« Reply #11 on: May 02, 2016, 01:54:15 am »
I think Cruz answered very well; in fact once again he's telling it like it is, unfortunately it seems that there are a lot of people out there that are either deaf or just plain dumb:

...According to the Texas senator, the stakes of this election couldn’t be higher. “If we lose this, we lose our country. We lose the Supreme Court for a generation, religious liberty is taken away, our kids are bankrupted,” he said.

Not only that, we will lose our 2nd amendment right; without it we will have NO rights!

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