The unprecedented deal between Cruz and Kasich to stop Trump is collapsing
Allan Smith
BusinessInsider.com
Apr. 29, 2015
It has taken only a few days for the unprecedented deal between Ted Cruz’s and John Kasich’s presidential campaigns to fall flat.
The agreement called for Kasich to pull out of Indiana in exchange for Cruz’s ceding contests in Oregon and New Mexico. It was viewed as a Hail Mary attempt at keeping GOP frontrunner Donald Trump from racking up the 1,237 delegates necessary to secure the Republican nomination ahead of the July convention.
Trump has called the deal “collusion” between the two campaigns, and he has lambasted both for making it. But on Friday, signifying the diminishing nature of the agreement, Trump mocked both candidates in a scathing tweet.
“Wow, the ridiculous deal made between Lyin’ Ted Cruz and 1 for 42 John Kasich has just blown up,” he posted. “What a dumb deal — dead on arrival!”
When the deal was first announced by both campaigns late Sunday night, it seemingly had potential. A win in Indiana is essential to keeping Trump from clinching the nomination. Cruz has a better shot in the Hoosier State of overtaking Trump, whose polling average in the state shows him to lead by more than 6 points.
Both Kasich and Cruz are mathematically eliminated from securing the Republican nomination ahead of the GOP convention. The hope in joining forces was that they could stop Trump from reaching the needed number of delegates, potentially triggering a second ballot at the convention on which many delegates would be able to vote freely for the candidate of their choice.
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