Cruz's 2016 strategy focuses on turning out white voters

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Cruz's 2016 strategy focuses on turning out white voters

By STEVE PEOPLES
Feb. 5, 2016 4:32 PM EST

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Ted Cruz has mapped out a path to the White House that all but ignores the explosion of minority voters in America.

The Texas senator's general election strategy depends almost wholly upon maximizing turnout among millions of conservative white voters — mostly evangelical Christians and the white working class — who didn't participate in the last presidential contest.

At the same time, Cruz's team is banking on a sharp decline in black and Hispanic support for the 2016 Democratic nominee, whoever it is, returning to voter trends before Barack Obama shook up the electorate as the nation's first black president and won an overwhelming share of support from non-white voters.

It is a strategy that defies the conventional wisdom in the GOP that says the party can win the White House again only if it appeals to political moderates and non-white voters who are becoming a greater share of the voting-age population as each day passes.

"I'm an outlier," said longtime Cruz aide Jason Johnson, the chief architect of the Cruz playbook, which he concedes is not in line with modern-day Republican thinking.

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[randys1]

1. Cruz knows he can give them what they want, which is legislated hate and violence

against all non white xtians.

So all he has to do is get enough white people who are rabid racists and so on, are there enough?

How many teapartiers are there?

[leftofcool]

2. I am shocked, I tell ya!