Ann Coulter says Seattle loves her, Cruz’s speech was ‘public suicide’

Controversial conservative commentator Ann Coulter is in Cleveland for the Republican National Convention but isn’t there for politics, she told KIRO Radio’s Jason Rantz.

Jason Rantz: Was Wednesday night disastrous for Ted Cruz?

Ann Coulter: It was a public suicide more than a mistake.

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Rantz: Tell me why?

Coulter: The entire Republican Convention just booed him. He has no hope. Every place he ever goes, everyone around him hates him. His only hope was tying his wagon to Donald Trump, which I would have guessed he was going to do. This is the one bar bet I would have lost this year. If you’d have said, who endorses Trump first, Rubio or Cruz? I would have said, Cruz, not likable but he’s crafty. No, he is not so crafty, he is bitter, bitter, bitter.

Rantz: Did Mike Pence do enough …

Coulter: I didn’t watch. I’m not watching the convention. I’m here to celebrate the fruits of my labor. I wrote “Adios, America.” This (Trump) is my nominee; he read it. I’m out eating and drinking with my friends. We had to have somebody come to the dinner party and tell us about what happened to Ted Cruz, for us all to look it up on our smartphones and laugh our heads off.

Rantz: Seattle is an incredibly progressive city and probably doesn’t like you very much. I feel like it would be fantastic if you came out.

Coulter: They love me in Seattle. And if they don’t, they would if they got to know me. I suppose if you’re asking how to appeal to a liberal, this idea that Trump is some combination of Jesse Helms and Hitler, no he ought to be very appealing to swing voters and moderate voters. He isn’t an extremist on all this stuff. He’s going to protect Americans. That’s considered extreme apparently.