Brian4Liberty
03-10-2016, 11:58 AM
Why Did Carly Fiorina Endorse Ted Cruz? (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/carly-fiorina-ted-cruz/472968/)
By David A. Graham - Mar 9, 2016
It’s not just the Republican establishment that’s starting to coalesce around Ted Cruz. It’s the putative outsiders, too.
On Wednesday, former presidential candidate Carly Fiorina endorsed Cruz. “Ted Cruz is a fearless fighter for our constitutional rights,” she said in a statement. “Unlike the status-quo political class in D.C., Ted Cruz didn’t cower when he got to Washington—he stood unequivocally for the American people.”
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Throughout her presidential run, Fiorina positioned herself as an outsider—a corporate executive rather than a party creature. That wasn’t exactly true.
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Fiorina’s endorsement likely flows from two major sources. The first is animus. Trump was, to be blunt, a huge jerk to Fiorina throughout the campaign. “Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?”
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The second is strategic. Fiorina is in the same boat as people like Senator Lindsey Graham, who has detested Cruz as a colleague and once said he’d be as bad a nominee as Trump. Graham hasn’t taken the step of formally endorsing Cruz yet, but he’s now happy to tell any news camera in sight that Cruz is preferable to Trump.
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Adding insult to injury, Fiorina made the endorsement at a rally in Miami, the hometown of Marco Rubio. Once the great hope of establishment Republicans—the same people who nudged Fiorina into the race—Rubio has faded to practically nothing.
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More: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/carly-fiorina-ted-cruz/472968/
By David A. Graham - Mar 9, 2016
It’s not just the Republican establishment that’s starting to coalesce around Ted Cruz. It’s the putative outsiders, too.
On Wednesday, former presidential candidate Carly Fiorina endorsed Cruz. “Ted Cruz is a fearless fighter for our constitutional rights,” she said in a statement. “Unlike the status-quo political class in D.C., Ted Cruz didn’t cower when he got to Washington—he stood unequivocally for the American people.”
...
Throughout her presidential run, Fiorina positioned herself as an outsider—a corporate executive rather than a party creature. That wasn’t exactly true.
...
Fiorina’s endorsement likely flows from two major sources. The first is animus. Trump was, to be blunt, a huge jerk to Fiorina throughout the campaign. “Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?”
...
The second is strategic. Fiorina is in the same boat as people like Senator Lindsey Graham, who has detested Cruz as a colleague and once said he’d be as bad a nominee as Trump. Graham hasn’t taken the step of formally endorsing Cruz yet, but he’s now happy to tell any news camera in sight that Cruz is preferable to Trump.
...
Adding insult to injury, Fiorina made the endorsement at a rally in Miami, the hometown of Marco Rubio. Once the great hope of establishment Republicans—the same people who nudged Fiorina into the race—Rubio has faded to practically nothing.
...
More: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/carly-fiorina-ted-cruz/472968/