Ted Cruz: Restitutor Orbis

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There Surgent: Ted Cruz: Restitutor Orbis

By Erick Erickson | February 2, 2016, 04:00am

It turns out I was right. The fundamental rules of politics still apply. Ted Cruz built an impressive ground game in Iowa. His campaign poured in resources while stockpiling huge amounts of cash in a bank account. They knew their voters, rented vans to get them to caucuses, and turned out the vote. The fundamentals still matter. The rules of politics have not changed. They just got lost in translating the din of the noisy Trump operation.

 

The Republican Party seemed to go mad. The polls suggested a large chunk of the party, in its anger at Washington, would vote for a man who, until recently, was a Democrat. In 2010, Donald Trump had funded the Democrats against the GOP and in 2014 had funded the Republican Establishment against conservatives. But now conservatives seemed to be taking him seriously and willing to burn it all down.