Ted Cruz on the stump shows his audience appeal

Christian Science Monitor:
Ted Cruz opens his event in Milford, N.H., with a bang.

“For the record, Tom Brady was framed!” the Texas senator declares to cheers for the New England Patriots quarterback, who had a little trouble last year with deflated footballs. “I’m not willing to pander on much, but Tom Brady was framed, and I have it on good authority that Hillary Clinton was responsible.”

More cheers and applause. “Why else do you think she destroyed her e-mails?”

Ba-da-boom. In one pithy joke, Senator Cruz manages both to pander and take a dig at the Democratic frontrunner, and the crowd at the Pasta Loft loves it.
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Two recent polls, in fact, show him to be the most popular candidate of the entire GOP presidential field. Gallup has Cruz at 61 percent favorable; ABC News/Washington Post has him rising to 60 percent.

Maybe it’s because Cruz can be entertaining. He tells jokes, he does impressions, he plays off voters’ questions. He was, after all, once an aspiring actor. Last June, he “auditioned” for “The Simpsons,” doing an excellent Montgomery Burns, Ned Flanders, and even Lisa and Homer Simpson. Last November, in an impressive performance, Cruz voiced all the parts of a scene from “The Princess Bride” for WMUR-TV in New Hampshire.
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The voters like him even if the establishment does not.   Perhaps that is why the establishment figures so misread the voters on the issues.

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