No one seems to think that the nominee in 2020 will be Donald Drumpf.
Anyway, I think Ted Cruz simply refuses to be a phony.
You can "not be a phony" and meet the minimum "I'm voting for the ticket." requirement of party loyalty. I could care less personally as to whether or not Cruz endorses Drumpf, because Drumpf's campaign is less endorsement-dependent than any campaign I have ever seen. But as a prognosticator (to the degree that I can call myself that), Cruz made a HUGE error. The "vote your conscience" mantra hurts Republicans other than Drumpf, and that is not lost on Republican regulars whose partisanship is not singular. Cruz went about this all wrong, and he's going to pay a huge price.
Being loyal to a party rather than your own beliefs is being a phony.
That may be true if you are an individual voter, but not when you are a partisan politician. Politics in America is very much a Team Sport, and most voters who identify with one major party or another expect their candidates to be loyal to the national ticket. I cannot think of a single major party candidate in my lifetime who, up until their nomination as President or Vice President, was loyal to their party's national ticket. The closest to this is George McGovern, who was a delegate to the Progressive Party's convention in 1948 that nominated Henry A. Wallace, and McGovern wasn't an elected official at that time.
I always knew McGovern was far left..but
that far left??!!
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