Did you notice something yesterday?\u00a0 For the past several months, if you turned on your Television you saw Donald Trump.\u00a0 My wife is so disgusted with this that she now turns off the Television every time she sees a picture of Donald Trump or hears his name mentioned. \u00a0\u00a0This usually takes less than one minute.\u00a0 Yesterday was very different.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t Donald Trump on the screen, it was Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n
There were two things that supposedly inspired this change.\u00a0 One was the silly twitter exchange between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.\u00a0 Someone, apparently a Super Pac ran a nude picture of Melania Trump and asked Mormons in Utah if they wanted this to be next First Lady of the United States.\u00a0 The picture was real, but Donald was not amused.\u00a0 He promised to spill the beans on Heidi Cruz.\u00a0 Then he posted side by side pictures apparently designed to show how much more beautiful Melania Trump is than Heidi Cruz.\u00a0 It was immature but also stupid.\u00a0 He just verified what people already knew about Melania Trump, her number one attribute is physical beauty.\u00a0 She looks like what she is, Donald Trump\u2019s third trophy wife.\u00a0 Heidi Cruz, on the other hand is a very nice, but normal looking lady who happens to be brilliant.\u00a0 She is a senior executive at Goldman Sachs on leave of absence.\u00a0 If this becomes a contest between potential first ladies, Trump loses big time.<\/p>\n
The other was the suggestion by Cruz that police keep an eye on Muslim communities where there is evidence of radicalization.\u00a0 The liberal left is too busy booing to notice the vast majority of people are standing up applauding, saying: \u201cabout time.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n But neither of these things are what triggered the change.\u00a0 Instead it was the results in Arizona and Utah.\u00a0 I took a close look at Arizona and the numbers are shocking.\u00a0 Over 50% of the vote was early voting.\u00a0 That is why Marco Rubio, who was not even in the race, got 13.8% of the vote.\u00a0 It is safe to assume that very few of those votes were cast on Election Day.\u00a0 So I went back and took out the votes for Rubio, Carson and Bush who had all withdrawn from the race.\u00a0 There were numerous reports that Donald Trump was doing very well in the early votes.\u00a0 Cruz was far behind.\u00a0 Once I did the analysis it became clear that on election night Cruz and Trump were in a virtual dead heat and if Kasich wasn\u2019t in the race Cruz would have won by a comfortable margin.\u00a0 I am sure the real experts figured out the exact same thing.\u00a0 This race has changed fundamentally and right now it is Cruz who has the big mo.<\/p>\n That was reinforced by recent polls that show Trump and Cruz tied nationally, for the first time and which show Cruz ahead in Wisconsin.\u00a0 In addition, a lot of people hate the establishment, but when people like Lindsey Graham and Mitt Romney say that Trump is fundamentally unsuited for the Presidency, that is hard to ignore.\u00a0 There is a big difference between not liking someone and saying someone lacks the character to be President of the United States.\u00a0 In addition even Democrats are appalled at the prospect of choosing between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 There are five people still theoretically in the race, but only Ted Cruz is a viable alternative to either Trump or Clinton.\u00a0 That changes everything.\u00a0 It has already changed who is getting attention from the media.<\/p>\n TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Did you notice something yesterday?\u00a0 For the past several months, if you turned on your Television you saw Donald Trump.\u00a0 My wife is so disgusted with this that she now turns off the Television every time she sees a picture … Continue reading