Cruz plays dangerous game in Wisconsin
Ted Cruz’s campaign manager predicted Cruz would win Iowa “outside the margin of error.” Marco Rubio stole the spotlight. Cruz himself predicted that Super Tuesday’s slew of southern primaries would be the firewall against Donald Trump’s surging campaign. Trump thumped him.
Now Cruz is playing the same high-stakes expectations game again in Wisconsin, with his campaign talking up a primary election win that Cruz badly needs — but can’t promise to deliver.
“Absolutely, Cruz will win Wisconsin,” said state Rep. Bob Gannon, one of his Wisconsin co-chairs.
An internal campaign memo from mid-March, that found its way to many reporters, was only slightly less cautious: “Based on internal polling and proximity to neighboring states in which Cruz has already won, our Campaign is in a strong position to win both Utah and Wisconsin,” the memo read.
But the few polls that have been conducted suggest Wisconsin is a wide-open race. And this time, if Cruz falls short of expectations again, there will be no safety net to catch him. After Wisconsin’s April 5 primary, the race heads to a string of northeastern states that are unfriendly territory for the Texas senator.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/ted-cruz-wisconsin-expectations-221220#ixzz43swpIEdt
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