Trump, the champion of democracy, in the WSJ

Let me ask America a question

He will crush Cruz in New York.

Sometimes I think he and Bernie have the same speechwriter.

The only antidote to decades of ruinous rule by a small handful of elites is a bold infusion of popular will. 

On every major issue affecting this country, the people are right and the governing elite are wrong. 

The elites are wrong on taxes, on the size of government, on trade, on immigration, on foreign policy.

. . . .

Mr. Cruz has toured the country bragging about his voterless victory in Colorado. 

For a man who styles himself as a warrior against the establishment (you wouldn’t know it from his list of donors and endorsers), you’d think he would be demanding a vote for Coloradans. 

Instead, Mr. Cruz is celebrating their disenfranchisement.

Likewise, Mr. Cruz loudly boasts every time party insiders disenfranchise voters in a congressional district by appointing delegates who will vote the opposite of the expressed will of the people who live in that district.

That’s because Mr. Cruz has no democratic path to the nomination. 

He has been mathematically eliminated by the voters.

While I am self-funding, Mr. Cruz rakes in millions from special interests. 

Yet despite his financial advantage, Mr. Cruz has won only three primaries outside his home state and trails me by two million votes—a gap that will soon explode even wider. 

Mr. Cruz loses when people actually get to cast ballots. 

Voter disenfranchisement is not merely part of the Cruz strategy—it is the Cruz strategy.

The great irony of this campaign is that the “Washington cartel” that Mr. Cruz rails against is the very group he is relying upon in his voter-nullification scheme.

My campaign strategy is to win with the voters. 

Ted Cruz’s campaign strategy is to win despite them.