Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump, left, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, center, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, right. (Photos: AP/Associated Press)
Ted Cruz and John Kasich released coordinated statements revealing a collaboration to stop Donald Trump from getting the 1,237 delegates to secure the nomination. As PPD has previously and repeatedly reported, this is a collaboration that was agreed upon months, except Sen. Cruz reneged on the deal prior to Arizona, Utah and Wisconsin.
The move infuriated the Kasich campaign. But now, with the frontrunner leading in every single state voting on Tuesday, as well as Indiana and California, two states Sen. Cruz staked his claim, the rivals made the collaboration public. The two campaigns announced that Gov. Kasich would pull out of Indiana to give Sen. Cruz “a clear path” to victory in the winner-take-all primary on May 3, while the Sen. Cruz will “clear the path” for Gov. Kasich in Oregon, which votes on May 17. In New Mexico, which votes June 7, Sen. Cruz will withdraw his campaign efforts.
“Having Donald Trump at the top of the ticket in November would be a sure disaster for Republicans,” Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, said. “To ensure that we nominate a Republican who can unify the Republican Party and win in November, our campaign will focus its time and resources in Indiana and in turn clear the path for Gov. Kasich to compete in Oregon and New Mexico, and we would hope that allies of both campaigns would follow our lead.”
In April, John Weaver, the chief strategist for Gov. Kasich, slammed the Texas senator and said that there is a major difference between what Sen. Cruz says in public and what he says in private. Mr. Weaver accused Sen. Cruz of backstabbing the Kasich campaign by not making good on their end of the first deal. Basically, they were angry that Sen. Cruz was competing in states that he previously agreed he would not compete in because Gov. Kasich had a broader appeal in the Rust Belt and Northeast.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the 2012 nominee and outspoken critic of Donald Trump, had endorsed Sen. Cruz before Utah in exchange for his cooperation. However, he tried to reach out to the Cruz campaign after complaints were voiced by the Kasich campaign, but received no response from the senator.
Mr. Trump said the collaboration was “desperation” in a series of tweets in response to the statements.
Wow, just announced that Lyin' Ted and Kasich are going to collude in order to keep me from getting the Republican nomination. DESPERATION!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 25, 2016
“Collusion is often illegal in many other industries and yet these two Washington insiders have to revert to collusion in order to stay alive,” Mr. Trump said in a statement. “They are mathematically dead and this act only shows, as puppets and donors of special interests, how truly weak and their campaigns are.”
The development comes as Mr. Trump has sought to make the endorsements and delegate selection process front and center in the nomination battle, painting the system as rigged against a true outsider. With party elites and pols lining up to endorse him and award him their state’s delegates without a vote, it would appear that he has managed to damaged Sen. Cruz’s standing among GOP primary voters.
A new YouGov survey conducted for the Huffington Post finds Republican primary voters no longer see Sen. Cruz as an outsider. More voters than not and ever (62%) now say he is more of an establishment candidate, rather than an outsider. The results represent a marked shift among primary voters since December of 2015, when just 36% considered him part of the Republican Establishment.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump leads in the latest polls by double digits. In Indiana, which will award 57 delegates in a winner-take-all primary, he leads Sen. Cruz by a smaller percentage still outside the margin. Oregon and New Mexico have 28 and 24 proportionately awarded delegates at stake, respectively.
Nancye J. May / April 25, 2016
Good. Stop Trump from 1237.
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Pam Ketcham / April 25, 2016
HERE ARE SOME FACTS ON CRUZ’S WIFE. If you plan to vote for Ted Cruz, you MUST know these things! Educate yourselves on him and his wife* It has also come to my attention with google that Cruz’s wife file for separation in 2011 & 2012 and her reason was given as “infidelity”………i’m just saying he’s lying about this news too!!~
* Heidi Cruz has been employed by Goldman Sachs since 2005. She is currently on leave.
* Heidi Cruz is a member of the leftist council on foreign relations, advocates of world Government and a New World Order.
* Ted Cruz was George Bush’s top policy advisor.
* Ted Cruz was in the federal Trade Commission.
* Ted and Heidi met when they were both Bush staffers.
* Cruz advised on legal affairs and Heidi on economic policy for the bush administration.
* Heidi was director for the Western Hemisphere on the national security council under Condoleeza Rice.
* Heidi served as deputy U.S. Trade Representative to USTR head,
Robert Zoellick, working on China trade policy.
* Ted Cruz’ campaign chairman, Chad Sweet, is a former CIA officer.
He also worked for Goldman Sachs.
* Ted Cruz voted for cloture on TPA, (trans pacific partnership agreement)
fast track trade authority, removing the hurdle of concern for further amendment, and clearing the way for passage!
It didn’t have to be recorded, so nobody knew this.
He voted NOT to require approval of congress before other countries could join, including China.
* Cruz has openly stated that he will NOT use a deportation force, and will continue to use the failed ICE system, where an illegal has to commit a crime first, then be caught.
* Cruz belongs to the radical Christian sect of 7 mountains dominionism. Heidi, also was arrested in TX, she was wondering around on a busy main Hwy. in the middle of the night. Police took her to jail and then to a crazy hospital stating she was a danger to others and herself.
Wise up, he’s not who you think he is
he has always been establishment, he is bought and paid by the banks. He did not vote to audit the Federal Reserve, he most certainly is establishment
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