Ted Cruz Fires Top Aide for Spreading Misinformation on Marco Rubio
Mr. Cruz went on to call Mr. Tyler a “good man,” but that his sharing of the story was “a grave error in judgment.” .. The firing represents a public admission of what Mr. Rubio and his aides have...
View ArticleWho gains the most when the GOP field shrinks?
When we ask registered Republican and Republican-leaning voters about their second choices, the results show that Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are in the best position to gain supporters if and when voters...
View ArticleThe Devil in Ted Cruz
At a town hall in South Carolina that CNN televised, he answered a question about his miserable relations with fellow lawmakers in Washington by assuring voters that “it’s not that I speak with a lack...
View ArticleWhat Is Marco Rubio Waiting For?
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets … and I’ve pointed out the things that Hitler is for that I don’t agree with, and...
View ArticleWhat We Learned from the Donald Trump-Marco Rubio Screamfest
Trump went even further, raising the possibility, to CNN’s Chris Cuomo, that he was being audited because he was a “strong Christian.”) .. Cruz, with leading questions and prosecutorial zeal, forced...
View ArticleWhy Ted Cruz’s Facial Expression Makes Me Uneasy
I have rarely, if ever, seen a conventional smile from Senator Cruz. .. No matter what the emotional coloring of Senator Cruz’s outward rhetoric is, his mouth typically tightens into the same straight...
View ArticleWhy Sen. Lindsey Graham Should Resign: Ted Cruz Joke
According to CNN, Sen. Graham said at the Washington Press Club Foundation dinner last night, “If you kill Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial is at the Senate, no one will convict you.”...
View ArticleTed’s the Ticket
Cruz could fight to the end, picking up delegates in states that divide them proportionally (Utah, New York, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico), and roll into Cleveland with the largest klatch of...
View ArticleRubio’s Florida Endgame
The Florida delegate apportionment model lets the winner take all, and it was set up that way to clear a path to the nomination for Jeb Bush. .. The campaign wanted to have the rally at the University...
View ArticleOf Course Ted Cruz Would Make a Better President Than Donald Trump
I don’t know how a President Trump would respond if one of the other coequal branches of government challenged his authority. Indeed, I am somewhat afraid that Trump would ignore or move against that...
View ArticleRubio’s Exit and the G.O.P.’s Spoiled Buffet
There are Republican traditionalists rooting for Trump over Cruz, and the thinking of some goes like this: .. He’ll embarrass the party and roil the country but maybe not cost Republicans key...
View ArticleCruz’s Preposterous Foreign Policy Team
Heilbrunn mentions that Gaffney has been waging a long-running smear campaign against Grover Norquist, but the more significant lie that Gaffney has been spreading for years is that U.S. foreign...
View ArticleWhat Cruz vs. Trump Means
And however imperfect he might be, Cruz would do more to advance the elite plan to remake the GOP for the 21st century than Trump would—especially if Cruz loses in November. His defeat could then be...
View ArticleKristol Attacks Me?
I could have stomached Chris Christie, but didn’t think Ben Carson or Carly Fiorina or Mr. Trump were qualified to be President. I am unalterably opposed to Ted Cruz who I consistently believe is an...
View ArticleObama to Ted Cruz: You Know Who Else Liked Surveilling Suspect Neighborhoods?...
As far as the notion of having surveillance of neighborhoods where Muslims are present, I just left a country that engages in that kind of neighborhood surveillance. Which, by the way, the father of...
View ArticleWhat Trump and Cruz Should Learn From Belgium
The day of the attacks, he called for police to “patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods.” Asked what that meant, Cruz cited a program in New York that, according to The New York Times, allowed to the...
View ArticleCrazy About Money
Leading Republicans support Mr. Cruz, not despite his policy positions, but because of them. They may not like his style, but they agree with his substance. .. When members of a large bipartisan panel...
View ArticleAn Analysis of Ted Cruz’s Tax Plan
The Tax Policy Center estimates that the proposal would reduce federal revenue by $8.6 trillion over its first decade and an additional $12.2 trillion over the subsequent 10 years, before accounting...
View ArticleDonald Trump vs. Ted Cruz Creates a Headache for Talk Radio Hosts
“Talk radio has a really unique way of being able to penetrate its way into Republican primary politics around the country,” said Doug Heye, a Republican strategist and deputy chief of staff for former...
View ArticleRush Limbaugh: Cruz Forces Trump Blunders
Cruz has been exhibiting manners that are considered to be old-fashioned. Politeness, restraint, not getting in people’s faces and wagging a finger and shouting them down. He really has been engaged...
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