May 4, 2016 5:58 PM

HK: Cruz premise debunked as Trump re-trains his rhetorical guns on Clinton

The nation laughed but the Texas GOP convention will potentially focus on toilets

One thing is almost now certain. The next President of the United States will be one of the two most despised political figures in the country with negatives that should have ended their campaigns months ago.

First, the Republicans: Democrats have long accused Republicans of voter suppression of likely Democratic voters through such artifices as voter ID, no voting on Sunday, fewer voting locations in black and Hispanic neighborhoods, etc. Whether true or not, the last few weeks of the Trump voter surge demonstrate that the Republican purity wars may have also been a suppression of likely Republican voters albeit subtler, especially in the down-ballot primaries where issues are frequently eye rollers with little bearing on the lives of real people.

Polls for the last decade have had had Congressional approval in the low teens with some actually dropping to single digits. Every poll demonstrates that Americans want the President and Congress to actually compromise. Yet compromise remains a rare and frequently terminal offense in DC.

Normally, we would handicap in favor of the candidate executing the best ground game which was, of course, the Texas Senator. However, Ted Cruz was selling intransigence the exact opposite of what the public wanted.

By Harvey Kronberg