Ted Cruz to Vote Trump (Confirmed)

[timosman]

Ted Cruz: It Feels Good to be a Clinton

 

[Mordan]

Well written statement.

I can hear the voices of the purists scream in disgust.

 

[Jesse James]

too late, damage done. and good, because like somebody said, he will stand out of Rand's way.

 

[Jamesiv1]

I hope Trump says, "F.uck you Ted. I don't want your Lyin-ass endorsement. You sleazy ass-hole mutherfu.ker" or some such

 

[juleswin]

I was listening to the Mark Levin show yesterday and he had a call from a lady who said that she would lose all respect for her husband if he voted for a man who said all those nasty stuff about Ted Cruz's wife and father. This is good for Trump but it looks really weak on Cruz's side.

 

[Lucille]

Ted Cruz: When it's not okay to follow your conscience...
http://adriennescatholiccorner.blogspot.com/2016/09/ted-cruz-when-its-not-okay-to-follow.html

Word is that Glenn Beck is on suicide watch.

 

[Cleaner44]

First, and most important, the Supreme Court. For anyone concerned about the Bill of Rights — free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment — the Court hangs in the balance. I have spent my professional career fighting before the Court to defend the Constitution. We are only one justice away from losing our most basic rights, and the next president will appoint as many as four new justices. We know, without a doubt, that every Clinton appointee would be a left-wing ideologue. Trump, in contrast, has promised to appoint justices “in the mold of Scalia.”

Ted Cruz lost my respect long ago but I have to agree with him here. I am just surprised it took him so long to figure out. Anyone that can't see a future of Hillary Clinton loading up the Supreme Court being the worst possible option is strangely blind.

 

[Lucille]

His supporters came over to Trump in droves in September. He has no choice.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/cruz-endorses-trump/

Because Cruz would lose the TX GOP Senate primary otherwise.

Sources familiar with Cruz’s thinking say he now acknowledges he underestimated the intensity of the negative backlash that would ensue.
[...]
They believe that Cruz’s continued estrangement from Trump and his supporters would have been a liability in the freshman senator’s 2018 reelection race — and in any future presidential bid.

“Some of his critics might say it’s a little opportunistic now that Trump looks like he’s doing better in the polls than when he gave his speech at the convention. It’s a little self-serving, some of his critics might say,” said Chip Saltsman, a GOP strategist who advised former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s (R) presidential campaign.

“What’s changed? The polls?” he said.

A spokeswoman for Cruz did not respond to a request for comment.
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Cruz can’t afford to alienate them when he’s up for reelection in 2018.

“I think he’s worried about his primary,” said a Senate Republican adviser.
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Cruz’s announcement elicited yowls of disappointment from conservatives in the Never Trump camp, which has shrunk significantly since Trump clinched the nomination.

Conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck declared Friday a “profoundly sad day for me,” adding that “disappointment doesn’t begin to describe” his feelings.
[...]
In the end, activists and strategists believe Cruz made a simple calculation of potential future political advantages and costs.

“I think everything he does is maybe not entirely motivated by future elections but certainly influenced by future elections,” Farris said. “It’s not wrong. He’s just counted the costs and decided he’d rather do this.”

 

[The Rebel Poet]

Et tu Eduarde?

 

[The Rebel Poet]

Ted Cruz lost my respect long ago but I have to agree with him here. I am just surprised it took him so long to figure out. Anyone that can't see a future of Hillary Clinton loading up the Supreme Court being the worst possible option is strangely blind.

Considering the alternative of Donald Trump loading up the Supreme Court, I can't see the difference.

 

[robert68]

As the former House Speaker Tip O'Neill is remembered for saying, "all politics is local".

Cruz's move may also be politically expedient. He faces a possible 2018 Senate primary challenge from Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, who has increasingly made an issue of Cruz's failure to endorse Trump.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has said Republicans who don't back Trump could pay a price down the road. And Trump also floated the idea of setting up a super PAC to oppose Cruz if he decided to run for office again.

 

[lilymc]

Pretty stupid move. I actually had some respect for Cruz for at least having some principle. Now not only is he disloyal, he's unprincipled. He already made his position as a "When Trump loses to Clinton, I can say I Told You So!".... now he's lost all currency and all chips. Makes no sense.

I never liked him from the start. Hopefully some people I know who supported him will now see he's just another unprincipled phony.

 

[jllundqu]