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Desperate GOP Establishment Turns to Ted Cruz

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The Republican establishment is sending in the cavalry for Ted Cruz, the latest unexpected twist in a presidential race that has defied all expectations.

Many prominent members of the GOP establishment intensely dislike Cruz. But they now acknowledge that he is the best option — perhaps the only option — to deny Donald Trump their party’s nomination.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush jumped on the bandwagon on Wednesday with a surprise endorsement of Cruz, describing the Texas senator as “a consistent, principled conservative” in a Facebook post.

Bush’s admiration for Cruz was noticeably lacking during the Floridian’s own run for the White House, when he mocked the Texan for political expediency. During one town hall meeting in New Hampshire, Bush said that Cruz had believed in immigration reform “until he went into the witness protection program” . . .

Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 nominee, urged voters in Utah — a state in which he has deep roots — to support Cruz in caucuses Tuesday night. Though Romney stopped short of a full endorsement of Cruz, he went as far as to record robocalls on the senator’s behalf in which he said that it was “time for Republicans across the spectrum to unite behind Ted.” (Read more from “Desperate GOP Establishment Turns to Ted Cruz” HERE)

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Ted Cruz Signals Growing Frustration With ‘Spoiler’ Kasich

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By Patrick Svitek. For nearly all of the 2016 Republican presidential campaign, you would have been hard-pressed to hear Ted Cruz mention fellow competitor John Kasich.

But now it’s a three-person race. And as Cruz tries to consolidate support from Republicans opposed to Donald Trump, the Texas senator is taking direct aim at Kasich, saying the Ohio governor is sabotaging the GOP’s hopes of defeating the billionaire.

“A vote for John Kasich is a vote for Donald Trump,” Cruz told reporters Saturday in Utah. “I don’t know if John Kasich is perhaps campaigning to be Donald Trump’s vice president, but he has been eliminated mathematically from having any chance of being the nominee.”

Cruz was similarly dismissive a day earlier in Arizona, where he told Fox News host Sean Hannity that Kasich’s role in the nominating process at this point “is essentially as a spoiler.” (Read more from “Ted Cruz Signals Growing Frustration With ‘Spoiler’ Kasich” HERE)

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Cruz: Kasich Blocked Me From Winning Illinois

By Ryan Lovelace. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said he would have won the Illinois Republican primary over Donald Trump, if not for Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Cruz told Fox News that Kasich’s presidential bid has functionally served to deliver delegates to Trump.

“What he’s doing doesn’t make any sense unless he’s auditioning to be Trump’s vice president because he can only be a spoiler,” Cruz said. “I’ll give you an example: Illinois. We would have won Illinois without John Kasich. Trump had 38 percent in Illinois, I had 30 percent, Kasich had 19.” (Read more from “Cruz: Kasich Blocked Me From Winning Illinois” HERE)

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Donald Trump Makes Wild Threat to Ted Cruz’s Wife

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Donald Trump escalated his feud with Ted Cruz on Twitter Tuesday — but this time he also involved the Texas senator’s wife.

The real estate mogul tweeted that the Texas senator should “be careful” or he would “spill the beans on your wife” Heidi Cruz.

“Lyin’ Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!,” he tweeted Tuesday evening, just minutes before polls closed in Arizona. Trump tweeted and deleted a similar version of the Tweet about 10 minutes earlier.

Trump appears to be referring to a Facebook advertisement targeted to Mormons that shows Trump’s wife, Melania, posing nude. That ad was produced by an anti-Trump super PAC, Make America Awesome, which has no known connection to the Cruz campaign. (Read more from “Donald Trump Makes Wild Threat to Ted Cruz’s Wife” HERE)

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Cruz Push for Doubling of Immigrants Raised Again

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Plans pushed by GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz under the immigration reform debate in 2013 that would have jumped the number of immigrants, including those from Muslim nations, were raised by the Trump campaign Tuesday.

Under the Cruz plan, yearly legal immigration would have gone from 740,000 to 1,675,000. He said his idea was to actually help kill the bill not boost the numbers.

“I was introducing a whole series of amendments, in part to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the Democrats. So, for example, the Democrats claimed they were supporting high-tech workers, so I introduced an amendment on that, every Democrat voted against it, which demonstrated that this was all a political endeavor for them, that what they were saying wasn’t true,” he told radio’s Laura Ingraham.

Donald Trump’s advisor Stephen Miller raised the issue on Fox Business, claiming the amendments would have “substantially increased” Muslim migration.

Secrets recently reported that the administration has approved more immigrants from Muslim nations over the next five years than the entire population of Washington, D.C. (Read more from “Cruz Push for Doubling of Immigrants Raised Again” HERE)

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Marco Rubio Rejected ‘Unity Ticket’ With Ted Cruz

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Ted Cruz’s campaign has been exploring the possibility of forming a unity ticket with ex-rival Marco Rubio — going so far as to conduct polling looking into how the two would perform in upcoming primary states.

The motivation, hashed out in conversations among Cruz’s top aides and donors: to find a way to halt Donald Trump’s march to the Republican nomination.

It’s unclear whether Cruz’s campaign brass views a partnership with Rubio as realistic or quixotic. In Rubio’s orbit, according to three sources, it’s seen as an outright nonstarter — with Rubio telling his team he isn’t interested.

Yet in recent weeks, within Cruz’s camp, talk of a joint ticket has run rampant. Utah Republican Mike Lee, one of two senators to endorse Cruz, has emerged as an outspoken supporter of a unity ticket — and as a potential broker. The freshman, according to several sources briefed on the talks, has reached out repeatedly to Rubio to gauge his interest, but has been rebuffed.

Shortly before Lee endorsed Cruz on March 10, Lee and his advisers discussed the possibility of organizing a meeting between the Utah senator and Rubio in Florida, just days before the state’s primary, according to two sources. The meeting, though, never happened. (Read more from “Marco Rubio Rejected ‘Unity Ticket’ With Ted Cruz” HERE)

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Glenn Beck: Failure to Elect Ted Cruz Will Leave Us With Blood on Our Hands

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By Pam Key. Thursday on The Blaze TV, host Glenn Beck told his listeners why he is campaigning for Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz and he urged them to do the same because if America goes away, the blood will be on their hands.

Beck said, “I’m going to be in Arizona and Utah for the campaign and I’m doing it because that’s what I can do. Others can do whatever it is you do. But even if it’s one person, you be bold. We are on the Titanic, it’s going down. Knock on every single door. They don’t want to come? Fine. Don’t waste time. The Titanic is going down. But you knock on every single door—’Can I tell you about the truth? Can I tell you about the truth? Can I tell you about the truth, because here’s what’s coming, here’s what’s coming.’ They don’t want to hear it, up to them.”

(Read more from “Glenn Beck: Failure to Elect Ted Cruz Will Leave Us With Blood on Our Hands” HERE)

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Trump Goes on All-Out Twitter Tirade Against Cruz

By Oliver Darcy. Republican front-runner Donald Trump unleashed Friday afternoon on his political rivals in one of his trademark Twitter tirades.

Trump first went after his chief GOP rival, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Calling the Texas senator a liar, the real estate mogul said that Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) endorsement of him would only serve as a “jinx” in the campaign.

(Read more from “Trump Goes on All-Out Twitter Tirade Against Cruz” HERE)

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Cruz Just Called out Trump in a Major Way – Will Donald Respond?

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Republican presidential candidate Texas Senator Sen. Ted Cruz stated that “no one should be surprised that Donald Trump is trying to stir up riots” in reaction to Trump’s prediction that there would be riots if he was denied the nomination after being just shy of the necessary 1,237 delegates and challenged Trump to a debate when both are in Washington, DC for AIPAC’s conference on Wednesday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel.

Cruz said, “Well, listen, no one should be surprised that Donald Trump is trying to stir up riots. I wish we had a presidential candidate that bringing us together instead of encouraging such things. But let’s talk about the math, because a lot of people get the math wrong, to be the Republican nominee takes 1,237 delegates. There are only two candidates that have any plausible path to getting there, Donald Trump and me. Now, by the way, if Donald continues getting delegates at the same rate he has so far, he won’t get to 1,237.”

Earlier, Cruz commented on Trump skipping Fox News’ planned March 21st debate by telling host Megyn Kelly, “[F]or whatever reason, it seems that Donald Trump finds you a very, very terrifying person. He skipped the debate in Iowa because you were going to be moderating. And I guess he doesn’t like when anyone challenges him. You know, he was saying just a week ago that he was eager to get one-on-one with me. Well, this debate, the field is narrowed even more, and he could have had a direct debate with me, and yet Donald apparently is ducking, He’s afraid of being challenged. And I think that’s because the race has shifted to a terrain that is not favorable for him. Even though the media is already ready to put a coronation on him, the reality is going forward, the closer we get to a one-on-one battle, the worse Donald Trump does. He’s been benefited by having a wide field, and [Sen.] Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) decision to suspend his campaign last night was a bad blow for Donald Trump, because it means the opposition to Trump continues to unify, and Republicans continue to unify behind our campaign.” (Read more from “Cruz Just Called out Trump in a Major Way – Will Donald Respond?” HERE)

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Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme: Rockefeller and Rothschild Families Won’t Let Trump or Cruz Win

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While actors are just people, we know many are simple closet socialists and communists. However, we have seen several like Kurt Russell and James Woods who have been very vocal in their opposition to the current administration. Now, actor Jean-Claude Van Damme has voiced his opinion that there is no way that Donald Trump will be allowed to be president by families like the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers.

The Belgian actor appeared on Le Grand Journal and gave his specific thoughts on the US race for the White House. Specifically he addressed both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and declared, “Well, they are not going to win.”

“You still have the Rockefeller, people like the Rothschild, those big families that dominate continents….these are families that rise in 1827, a family with five sons that expands, it’s above everything we’re talking (about) tonight,” Van Damme added.

Van Damme spoke about those candidates who are controlled by special interests, which is seen in their multi-million dollar funding for their campaign and someone like Donald Trump, who is basically funding his own campaign. (Read more from “Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme: Rockefeller and Rothschild Families Won’t Let Trump or Cruz Win” HERE)

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Ted Cruz Just Got an Unfortunate Message From an NRA Instructor [+video]

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Jan Morgan, “nationally recognized 2nd Amendment speaker,” journalist, and certified NRA instructor has officially withdrawn her endorsement for GOP candidate Ted Cruz today, making the announcement via Twitter:

The Tweet contains a link to a piece Morgan appears to have written explaining calling Cruz an “opportunist” who used the chaos in Chicago last night to smear Donald Trump- by blaming Trump for it:

“This is quite stunning even for a politician as low as Ted Cruz. Senator Cruz has a prime opportunity to highlight the intolerance of the left. Instead he chooses to attack Donald Trump.”

(Read more from “Ted Cruz Just Got an Unfortunate Message From an NRA Instructor” HERE)

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The Many, Many Reasons Republican Senators Can’t Stand Ted Cruz

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Ted Cruz might be the only thing standing between Donald Trump and the Republican presidential nomination, but he only has a single endorsement from a fellow senator — and few colleagues who will even say a nice thing about him in the hallway.

Bob Corker of Tennessee, for example, when asked this week if he considered Cruz a friend, paused for several seconds before eventually replying that Cruz was “an acquaintance.”

Here are some of the biggest moments when Cruz angered the Republican establishment:

Within weeks of being sworn in, Cruz questioned whether Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam-era war hero and former Republican senator from Nebraska up for confirmation as defense secretary, might have been paid off by the North Korean or Saudi governments. Democrats pounced, with some labeling Cruz’s line of questioning a McCarthyite smear. Many Republicans cringed. Cruz would later write in his book that naming North Korea was a tactical error.

In 2013, Cruz took a position as a vice chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the political arm of Senate Republicans aimed at protecting incumbents and expanding the GOP ranks. But Cruz wasn’t particularly active with the NRSC, and stopped participating after the NRSC aggressively protected incumbents in primaries — including Thad Cochran in Mississippi and McConnell in Kentucky. If there’s one thing senators notice, it’s when their fellow senators don’t have their backs.

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