Thread: Cruz has dropped out, CBS News

Cruz has dropped out, CBS News

Hallelujah.

Thank God for that. I hope it's true.

Ted Cruz drops out of presidential race


By KATIE GLUECK and SHANE GOLDMACHER

05/03/16 08:26 PM EDT

Ted Cruz is quitting the presidential race, according to campaign manager Jeff Roe, ending one of the best-organized campaigns of 2016 after a series of stinging defeats left Donald Trump as the only candidate capable of clinching the nomination outright.

Cruz had appeared likely to go all the way to the Republican convention, but a string of massive losses in the Northeast, and his subsequent defeat in Indiana, appear to have convinced him there’s no way forward.

John Kasich, however, pledged on Tuesday night to stay in the race until a candidate reaches 1,237 bound delegates.

From the start, Cruz has premised his candidacy on the idea that 2016 would be an election driven by resentment toward the established GOP order. It was a strategy that looked prescient as Cruz steadily rose in the polls throughout 2015 and broke into the top tier in Iowa in early 2016.

But what Cruz did not expect — what no one expected — is that he would be outmatched and outstripped in outsider anger by Trump. Cruz had maintained a fragile truce with Trump all of last year, but by the time he turned on the front-runner, the Manhattan businessman had already captured the voters Cruz was hoping would fuel his candidacy.

Cruz lost Indiana after pulling out all the stops: he struck a nonaggression pact with John Kasich. He bought TV ads. His supportive super PACs bought TV ads. He blitzed the Sunday shows. He barnstormed the state on a bus tour. He got the governor’s endorsement. He even named his running mate.

Losing despite all that represented the final nail in the coffin of Cruz’s months-long claim that conservatives were coalescing around his insurgent candidacy.

In early 2016, it had appeared that Cruz had executed masterfully his plan to consolidate conservatives and emerge as Trump’s main rival. In Iowa, he drove Govs. Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal and Scott Walker out of the race before the caucuses — and then crushed the two reigning winners, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, on caucus day.

Even as he exited the race, Cruz had far surpassed most expectations in 2016, particularly in fundraising, as he tapped both big donors and an army of small ones as he became one of the race’s best-financed candidates. His constellation of super PACs raised the second most to Jeb Bush among Republicans last year.

And ahead of super Tuesday, his campaign bragged about more than 200,000 volunteers nationwide.

For a 45-year-old only halfway through his first term in the Senate, those could be the building blocks of the future, especially for a Republican Party that, until 2016 at least, had long rewarded candidates seasoned by previous losing campaigns.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...#ixzz47dvtqw8q

The path is clear, I am a little shocked.

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Originally Posted by joe s

The path is clear, I am a little shocked.

He doesn't want any more scrutiny on his father. There's something very strange about his father. Why he came here, how he came here, why he left, why he came here in 1957 but didn't become a US citizen until 2005, living in our country for the better part of 48 years without wanting to become a US citizen?? Instead he moves to Canada during the Vietnam War and becomes a Canadian citizen with multiple children born to American wives??!!

Trump made the right move today in commenting on that article.

Im glad this Trump and Cruz mess is over with. Now I hope conservatives can focus on unity against the socialists!

W

@Judy...Scott Brown VP...getting the message out! He is the best VP pick for our Country.

The "dynamic duo" to Make America Great Again!

Originally Posted by Beezer

@Judy...Scott Brown VP...getting the message out! He is the best VP pick for our Country.

The "dynamic duo" to Make America Great Again!

YES!!! SPREAD THE WORD!! Love the "dynamic duo" tag!

SCOTT BROWN FOR VP