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Ted Cruz Rhetorical Analysis

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Texas Senator Ted Cruz boosted his big win in the Wisconsin primary, complicating the front-runner Donald Trump chances from securing the nomination and assuring heated primaries will continue on until July’s GOP convention. “Tonight is a turning point,” Texas Sen. Cruz told his supporters at a victory party in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “Tonight, Wisconsin has lit a candle guiding the way forward. Tonight, we once again have hope for the future. Tonight is about unity and tonight is about hope.” With 99% of the precincts reporting as of 1:40 PM Eastern, Cruz received 48.4% of the votes to 35% for Trump. Ohio Governor John Kasich was in a distant third with 14%. With 42 delegates at stake in Wisconsin in a winner-take-most primary, Cruz has so far secured 18 delegates from Tuesday's win, while the other 24 delegates will be divided based on the winner of each of the eight Wisconsin congressional districts. The win from …show more content…

"Either before Cleveland or at the convention in Cleveland, together we will win a majority of the delegates and together, we will beat Hillary Clinton in November." Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd of supporters, Cruz stressed the importance of uniting the Republican party, arguing his campaign has created a unified force, paving the way for a "turning point" based off his victory that he considers a “rallying cry” for preventing Trump a win. "We're winning because we're uniting the Republican Party," Cruz said. "Of the 17 candidates who started this campaign—a terrific, talented, dynamic field—five have now endorsed this campaign. Rick Perry, and Lindsey Graham, and Jeb Bush, and Carly Fiorina, and Wisconsin’s own Governor Scott Walker. When you toss in Senator Mike Lee and Mark Levin, we’ve got the full spectrum of the Republican Party, coming together and uniting behind this

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“My purpose is to be president,” Kasich responded. “And those who are wondering about Donald Trump, if I go head to head with him in Ohio, I beat him by 18 points. I intend to go all the way, I intend to be the nominee, and I intend to beat Hillary Clinton by more than 11 points.” Kelly pressed on to question Kasich’s candidacy asking if he stealing votes from candidates that had a better chance of beating Trump. “I’m not sure who those people are but people counted me out, they said you know, he will never get to New Hampshire and we went to New Hampshire and we finished second,” Kasich said.

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Former Texas Governor and two-time Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry came out of hiding after suspending his campaign to speak at Value Voter Summit Friday afternoon in Washington, D.C. Speaking as a non-presidential candidate, Perry called on all conservatives to stand by a candidate that wouldn’t divide the party. Without mentioning names, Perry renewed the rivalry against the Republican front-runner Donald Trump. During his brief run, Perry would tried to take on Trump, but that led to his poll numbers dropping, which ultimately led to Perry being the very first candidate to bow out the race earlier this month. “We see in our politics today a lot of agitation,” Perry said to the 2,500 social conservative attendees on Friday,

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President Donald Trump. Even to those who had voted for Trump this election, I doubt you ever expected to hear those words four years ago. Now added to the great list of men that lead this beautiful, that slots among Honest Abe, The American Cincinnatus, Old Hickory, and Father of the Constitution, is The Tumpster. Dana Milbank's mocking article “In which Trump discovers some guy named Frederick Douglass” Donald Trump is contrasted to the expectation of how leaders perform and act by the juxtaposition of the expectation, the allusion of similar incidents, and the situational irony of the thirteen days that he has been in office.     

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