To: neolib who wrote (292005 ) 2/21/2016 7:17:59 PM From: Sam Read Replies (1) | Respond to Another roundup of the news on the horse race, this time from Amy Davidson of The New Yorker:AMY DAVIDSON excerpt: is the moderate.radio ads and robocalls warning that Trump was insufficiently deferential to the Confederate flag—“our flag,” the ads called it—and was much too willing to give equal rights to gays and lesbians, which would amount to “tearing down our Judeo-Christian values” and “tearing down our America.” Cruz has long made a point of Trump’s pro-choice past. After he ran an ad suggesting that Trump still held such positions, Trump sent him a cease-and-desist letter. Trump’s comments about how, after getting rid of Obamacare, he’d do something to make sure that people weren’t “dying in the streets” became evidence of his apostasy, especially after he seemed to say that he liked the law’s individual mandate. (Afterward, Trump said that he meant the ban on excluding patients with pre-existing conditions.) Still, Cruz seemed to gain some traction, perhaps because this was the first time that another Republican had really attacked Trump on matters of policy, rather than for his style. What is remarkable, and alarming for the future of the Republican Party, is that the only such attack a candidate has mustered against Trump has come from so far to the right.Daily Beast reported, Cruz arranged to meet with Carson to try to placate him. It “did not go well,” the Carson campaign said. Cruz is not popular with his colleagues in the Senate; he has tried to portray that as evidence of his courageous stance against “the Washington cartel.” Voters may conclude that Cruz’s problem is not his steadfastness, or even an unpleasant personality, but his character. It was Trump who won evangelical voters , according to exit polls.
