There is one way in which Fiorina makes perfect sense as a means of quickly and acutely shifting the political terrain before Indiana votes. It essentially involves using Fiorina as bait for Trump.
If the Cruz campaign is lucky, the Fiorina selection will provoke Trump into saying or doing something egregiously sexist before May 3. For Trump, the only thing standing between him and the nomination may be his ability to avoid that simple trap. Will he be able to do it?
Wisconsin was not a great fit for Donald Trump, but he didn’t help himself by going on a crusade against Heidi Cruz. It dominated the news for several days heading into the primary. Insane sexism might not have lost Trump any of the supporters he already had, but it did make it difficult for him to grow at all beyond that. He won the 35 percent of the vote that he always had in the bag and nothing more. In the three recent polls of Indiana, the only polling we have in that state, Trump sits at 40 percent. Cruz’s goal is to keep Trump stuck there and hope that his campaign can leapfrog his rival’s now that John Kasich’s out of the picture and eating meals all over the Willamette Valley.
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