Before Ted Cruz and John Kasich dropped their presidential bids, Brett Baer asked Charles Krauthammer Tuesday on Fox’s Special Report about the future of the Stop Trump movement.
“Well I think it dies if what looks like is going to happen happens,” Krauthammer replied. “I think the real question is, will Trump be able to bring in some of those people? Remember Cruz has had a not insubstantial following.”
“And that’s why I think what [Trump] did today is so puzzling,” Krauthammer continued. “He’s way ahead, he’s got the nomination in his pocket, and yet he floats or repeats this story from National Enquirer, which is weird Twilight Zone stuff about Ted Cruz’s dad being associated with Lee Harvey Oswald, who was the Kennedy assassin.”
Trump’s past attack on Cruz’s wife, Heidi, and now Trump’s attack on his dad are “not what you do,” Krauthammer said, “if you want to reconcile with somebody, if you want [Cruz] to stand on the stage at the end of the convention, raising his hand.”
Krauthammer doubts Trump’s ability to win Cruz’s constituency: “I think what Trump said . . . is important: ‘I want party unity, but I don’t need it; I can win without it.’ And that part of the Stop Trump segment that was behind Cruz may find itself in a position where they will follow [Cruz].”
Stop Trump Movement -- Donald Trump Might Not Win Ted Cruz’s Voters