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So the analysts have spoken, and boy are they not impressed. Ed Kilgore, at NYMag, “Cruz Names Fiorina As Veep Pick — Smooth Move or Last Gasp?”:
… The only other time a presidential candidate has announced a running mate before winning the nomination was famously in 1976, when Ronald Reagan announced Pennsylvania senator Richard Schweiker as his veep choice before the Republican Convention in Kansas City. That, however, was three weeks prior to the August convention, not in April…
…[I]t’s not clear that Fiorina (who endorsed Cruz some time ago) will help him much in her “home state” of California. In her one political race prior to 2016, she lost to Barbara Boxer by ten points in the wildly pro-Republican year of 2010, though she did win the GOP nomination handily over mispositioned centrist U.S. representative Tom Campbell and conservative firebrand Chuck DeVore (Campbell was the target of the famous “demon sheep” ad crafted for Fiorina by consultant Fred Davis, who is now on John Kasich’s team). She immediately moved away from the scene of the political accident, relocating to a gated community in a suburb of that well-known entrepreneur’s paradise, Washington, D.C…
Let no one say Cruz didn't get to run the Reagan '76 reenactment campaign he wanted
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) April 27, 2016
Simon Maloy, at Salon, “The way Ted Cruz made the “solemn choice” of picking a running mate reveals how awful a president he would be”: