The big news Wednesday morning was that Bernie Sanders upset Hillary Clinton in the Democrat primary on Tuesday, and that Donald Trump won Michigan, Mississippi and Hawaii. I actually had to Google the results out of Idaho, a closed primary which Ted Cruz won by a wide margin. What I didn’t hear on the news (they were all too focused on the many fake Trump products on display at the news conference they all aired Tuesday night) was that Ted Cruz came in second in Michigan even though he only spent $1112. That’s one thousand one hundred twelve dollars. And he came in second. And won the female vote.
This is a state where Kasich was supposed to be competitive, I think he called it a “must win” and he came in third. I’ll bet he spent more than a thousand dollars, and Rubio spent a boatload of cash to come in last.
The Rubio voters would rather blame Ted Cruz than John Kasich who is taking votes from Rubio. In Michigan, Cruz won female voters. Think about that. He came in second having spent only $1,112 total while Rubio came in last after spending $1.2 million.
And having spent barely any funds in Michigan, Cruz and Kasich battled it out for second place in Michigan. Rubio, meanwhile, cratered out so badly in Michigan and Mississippi that he not only failed to hit the delegate threshold but that caused more bonus delegates for Trump’s run up to the magic 1,237 delegates. As of this writing, he performed no better in Idaho, with Cruz winning there. In fact, Cruz would have won all the delegates in Idaho had Rubio gotten out. Cruz would have gone into last night with more delegates than Trump had Rubio not played the spoiler in Maine and Texas. (Read More)
As I noted earlier, something’s got to give.
Oh, and if you ask me, the nomination of Ted Cruz would be a bigger affront to the establishment than a Trump nomination. They’ve come out so strong against Trump that they’ve backed themselves into a corner where they’ll have no choice but to back Cruz, who they find to be very distasteful with all of his icky principles. They would hate every minute of it. For them it would be like taking ipecac to rid themselves of some terrible poison. But for those of us who still believe in the principles that made this country great it would be delicious.
