Senator Ted Cruz’s endorsement yesterday of Donald Trump may be a watershed moment in the 2016 campaign, and in the life of the Republican Party as well.
While Trump retains several positions that some Republicans, conservatives in particular, are uncomfortable with, two factors compel increasingly widespread support for the GOP nominee.
The first, of course, is the extraordinary fear Republicans have of a continuation of President Obama’s policies. There has never been an administration further to the left than Mr. Obama’s, and Clinton has not only promised to continue in the course he set, but to expand upon it.
While not a full-fledged conservative, Trump’s endorsement of key conservative positions on defense, taxes, immigration, free speech preservation and Supreme Court nominees are more than sufficient to gain right-wing support.
Indeed, even New York State’s Conservative Party, which has its own ballot line and has been credited with influencing the national GOP on numerous issues, has given its line to Trump. While that line only appears in New York State, it is a clear indication throughout the nation that a Trump endorsement is appropriate for conservative voters.
In his endorsement, Cruz outlined the conservative reasons for supporting Trump:
“Six key policy differences inform my decision. First, and most important, the Supreme Court. For anyone concerned about the Bill of Rights — free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment — the Court hangs in the balance. I have spent my professional career fighting before the Court to defend the Constitution. We are only one justice away from losing our most basic rights, and the next president will appoint as many as four new justices. We know, without a doubt, that every Clinton appointee would be a left-wing ideologue. Trump, in contrast, has promised to appoint justices “in the mold of Scalia.”
“For some time, I have been seeking greater specificity on this issue, and today the Trump campaign provided that, releasing a very strong list of potential Supreme Court nominees — including Sen. Mike Lee, who would make an extraordinary justice — and making an explicit commitment to nominate only from that list. This commitment matters, and it provides a serious reason for voters to choose to support Trump.
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“Third, energy. Clinton would continue the Obama administration’s war on coal and relentless efforts to crush the oil and gas industry. Trump has said he will reduce regulations and allow the blossoming American energy renaissance to create millions of new high-paying jobs.
“Fourth, immigration. Clinton would continue and even expand President Obama’s lawless executive amnesty. Trump has promised that he would revoke those illegal executive orders.
“Fifth, national security. Clinton would continue the Obama administration’s willful blindness to radical Islamic terrorism. She would continue importing Middle Eastern refugees whom the FBI cannot vet to make sure they are not terrorists. Trump has promised to stop the deluge of unvetted refugees.
“Sixth, Internet freedom. Clinton supports Obama’s plan to hand over control of the Internet to an international community of stakeholders, including Russia, China, and Iran. Just this week, Trump came out strongly against that plan, and in support of free speech online.”
The second reason both GOP moderates and conservatives are growing in enthusiasm for the party nominee is more nuanced.
In 2014, Republicans captured the Senate and retained the House of Representatives. Despite this strong position, GOP leaders were largely ineffectual, and in many cases insufficiently confrontational with the hard-left White House. Both conservative and many moderate Republicans became incensed at the laid-back attitude, and House Speaker John Boehner was removed as a result. But the outcry over the non-combative attitude of party leadership didn’t stop there. The two leading contenders for the nomination were outsiders Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. The message was clear: business as usual would no longer be tolerated.
The growing list of GOP endorsements for Donald Trump is both a reflection of Republican concern about Clinton’s plans to continue Obama’s radical policies, as well as a warning to GOP leaders that their laid-back attitude is unacceptable.