Cruz attributes Trump support to voters who are 'not that engaged'



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In an interview Wednesday with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz cited his rival Donald Trump's wide support among Republicans to "low information" and poor voter engagement.

Trump has held the lead for almost seven straight months in the race for the GOP nomination, in spite of opponents' charges that the billionaire mogul sports a policy record atypical of conservative politicians.

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In addition, copious critical fact checks of Trump's statements and reporting on Trump's past scandals has made little impact on the polls.

Cruz told CBN's The Brody File, "Donald does well with voters who have relatively low information, who are not that engaged and who are angry and they see him as an angry voice. Where we are beating him is when voters get more engaged and they get more informed. When they inform themselves, they realize his record."

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The Cruz campaign and others have released a steady stream of political ads highlighting aspects of Trump's record, including his amiable comments about Hillary Clinton, his financial contributions to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and his hiring of foreign workers. But it has failed at substantially dissolving the mogul's support.

Even a $10 million deluge of anti-Trump ad money, attacking Trump's record and character, proved relatively fruitless when the frontrunner swept three of four primary states that voted Tuesday.

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"He does well with a certain demographic of voter. Donald gave a press conference where he said, to quote him, 'I love the poorly educated."

Cruz, who long described himself as an opponent of his party's establishment, is now pitching himself as his party's only alternative to a Trump nomination. He's seeking to build a coalition of establishment support as party officials grow panicky about the increasingly likely scenario that Trump — a true outsider to Republican political circles — becomes the flag bearer of the GOP.