Conventions Quote by David Brooks

[Ted] Cruz is not at all popular in the Senate. Republicans say he may be too disliked to be a nominee. And there is…

— Dalia Mogahed

Some people think [Ted] Cruz is just as bad of an electoral nightmare down the ballot as [Donald] Trump.

— Dalia Mogahed

Republicans think that [Ted] Cruz would be like Barry Goldwater. He'd lose in a landslide and pull the party down with him. They'd lose…

— Mara Liasson

Senator Cruz has done well in Republican states.

— Ken Cuccinelli

The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements.

— Mara Liasson

I think Ted Cruz does a really good job; he's a rabble-rouser and thinks outside of the box.

— Dana Loesch

It is highly likely that one of the two of them [ Donald Trump and Ted Cruz ] is going to be the nominee.…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Cruz is kind of an interesting person because he has the establishment Republican Party against him, that's what you're talking about, he also has…

— Chuck Woolery

I think Senator [Ted] Cruz's strategy is that there's 4.5 million, 5 million Republicans that didn't vote in 2012. This is the conventional wisdom…

— Rush Limbaugh

Ted Cruz has struggled, and Donald Trump, of course, has been the big winner the last two outings. And the polling that we have,…

— Brit Hume

I thought it was remarkable in July [2016] when he pointedly declined to endorse Ted Cruz at the Republican convention, because I thought that…

— Josh Barro

It's [Ted] Cruz and [Donald] Trump until the establishment or unless the establishment figures rally around one person. I still think the best person…

— Laura Ingraham