Hey Arizona voters, the fate of the country may depend on you. Really! Polls show that Donald Trump is leading in Arizona ahead of next week’s primary election, but that Ted Cruz is within striking distance and can beat him. Arizona is HUGE at this point in the presidential nominating process, since it has a lot of delegates and the winning candidate there gets all of those delegates. Let me emphasize this: If Trump wins the state by even a single vote, he gets all of Arizona’s delegates. And as we just saw in Missouri, that single-vote scenario can happen: Trump apparently beat Cruz in Missouri by much less than one percentage point: 40.8% to 40.6%. If Trump wins Arizona, it may be too late to stop him, but a Cruz win there would be a huge help.
Even if you’re not a Cruz supporter—even if you can’t stand Cruz or you love Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton—vote for Cruz to stop Trump! And if you like John Kasich or think he’s better than Cruz, please recognize that voting for Kasich (or anyone else on the Republican ballot) will not help to stop Trump. Polls show that Kasich has zero chance of getting the most votes in Arizona’s Republican primary, which means that a vote for him is a missed opportunity to vote for the only candidate who can keep Trump from winning the state. Remember, Trump gets all of Arizona’s delegates if he wins by even a single vote; that could be a single voter who chooses Kasich over Cruz or an independent voter who chooses to vote in the Democrat primary instead of voting for Cruz.
What if you already voted? It’s still not too late to tell your friends who haven’t yet voted! The election is next Tuesday, March 22.
What if you’re not a Republican? If you’re registered to vote as a Democrat, you can’t vote in the Republican primary but can still tell your friends who are eligible to vote. Registered independents, on the other hand, CAN vote in the Republican primary. Here’s a direct quote from the rules: "If you are registered in a political party which has qualified for ballot recognition, you will be permitted to vote the primary election ballot for that party. If you are registered as an independent, no party preference or as a member of a party which is not qualified for ballot recognition, you may select and vote one primary election ballot for one of the recognized political parties."
I ask you to vote for Cruz with this in mind, and to urge others to do likewise. Let’s do whatever we can to stop Trump, who shows himself daily to be a crude and authoritarian demagogue.
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