Talk:Ted Cruz 2016 presidential campaign

Caitlyn Jenner endorsement

There are news articles that report that Jenner likes Cruz and would like to be Cruz's "Trans Ambassador". --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 07:15, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Yes, but it looks like it's not being considered an official endorsement. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 18:23, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

"Trump may be a rat, but I have no desire to copulate with him".

Is this bawdy comment from Cruz notable enough to include? FiredanceThroughTheNight (talk) 06:32, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Super Tuesday section

I find the beginning of the section Ted Cruz presidential campaign, 2016#Super Tuesday very difficult to understand. The wording is:

Prior to the evening of the Iowa Caucus, the Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz campaigns used a past GOP mailing tactic to target Iowa voters, using the published state voter roster entries. The contents were in an envelope appearing to originate from an election authority to prioritize the recipients attention to it. Some recipients determined they were intimidated by the content, revealing their past voter participation and their adjacent neighbors' participation.[124][125] Then, caucus evening in Iowa, a local report repeated live on-air by CNN's Dana Bash, hearing a producer's voice in the intercom earpiece (interruptible foldback or IFB), remotely verifying a tweet from an embed CNN reporter source, Chris Moody, following the Carson campaign and quoting Ben Carson, his itinerary to go home to Florida before the night's caucus results and then to Washington, DC prayer breakfast, not New Hampshire or South Carolina.[126][127] Ted Cruz apologized via a direct phone call to Dr. Ben Carson, immediately the following day. Cruz publicly stated he apologized to Dr. Ben Carson directly and took responsibility for the campaign communications, including Iowa Representative Steve King's extrapolation to the Cruz Iowa caucus captains. Media outlet political pundits subscribe that Carson was following the course of a victim of the circumstance, when he did not accept Cruz's apology, thus allowing Trump to take up offense for Carson and Trump becoming a victim of the same circumstance, stealing Trump's win in Iowa. Carson, following the course of a victim of circumstance, is not Presidential, possibly persuading GOP voters to select a stronger candidate, in subsequent contests.

In particular, the long sentence beginning "Then, caucus evening in Iowa..." makes very little sense. I can tell something was said on CNN about Carson, but not how Cruz was involved. The end of the paragraph is uncited and goes into editorializing. I have tagged this because I lack enough insight into what this section is aiming to say to edit it myself. Fences&Windows 11:56, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

I've done some cleanup on the wording and removed the very long final sentence that was already tagged as editorializing and had no sourcing to it. Let me know if that works for you? Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz (talk) 14:53, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, that section makes sense now. Fences&Windows 21:33, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Caucus and primary section

I admittedly started that section though after seeing the Rubio campaign article I've become convinced that the article would be better off merging that into the campaign section. The only thing we would lose would be the results templates which I don't think we need. Informant16 16 April 2016

John Boehner's insults

We should mention that John Boehner accused Cruz of being the devil and a "son of a bitch" [1]. --212.186.14.29 (talk) 11:35, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Primary results

According to The Green Papers, Cruz placed second among Republicans in the primary with 7,822,100 votes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.2.38.14 (talk) 02:59, 7 November 2016 (UTC)