Many voters will understand what I mean when I have come to the conclusion that Senator Ted Cruz cannot win the general election. And it’s very simple, it doesn’t take all day to break it down piece by piece.
If you look at the road to the Republican National Convention and the delegates needed to win the nomination, I agree wholeheartedly with Senator Cruz that Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. John Kasich do not have a pathway to winning the nomination with the remaining states left.
But after that, I also have to say that if nominated by the GOP, Cruz can’t win the general election because he can’t bring over votes from the other side of the political aisle. That’s why Cruz is dead wrong to call on Rubio and Kasich to drop out of the GOP race.
From Politico:
Ted Cruz on Monday urged voters not to back John Kasich or Marco Rubio, saying only he could do what they couldn’t: beat Donald Trump.
“If you’re here today, or at home watching on TV thinking about supporting Marco Rubio or John Kasich, I say to you, they are good men but they do not have a path for winning,” the Texas senator said here at a rally at a civic center. “It’s mathematically impossible for them to win, so I say, ‘Come and join us, we welcome you with open arms.’”
Cruz’s remarks came at his third of a five-swing stop through Illinois Monday, a state where his team sees opportunities to rack up delegates in Tuesday’s contest, and where polls show the gap between Cruz and Trump narrowing, with the possibility emerging that Cruz could pull ahead into first place. His events here also come as the Trump campaign scrambles to reset in Illinois, following the news that his campaign director here was sidelined and a Friday night rally in Chicago shuttered over fears of violent protests.
As I said earlier, Cruz is using a common sense approach, but he’s not being truthful about his own chances. Cruz’s Election Day message is wrapped up for the Evangelicals with a constitutional blanket, but he’s not reaching out to minorities and I feel that’s a huge mistake.
Donald Trump has tapped into a message that includes illegal immigration, building a wall, attacking the status quo as an outsider who has never been elected, connecting with blue-collar workers, and all of this equates to bringing in hundreds of thousands of new voters to the Republican Party.
Believe it or not, the GOP is going to need these votes to defeat the Democrats in November. If you are a Cruz fan, and you’re reading this right now, you are not happy with my analysis, but it’s true.
H/T: Politico
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