Posted on 03/25/2016 12:57:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz may turn out to be the real winner of the Louisiana Republican primary. Despite losing the primary in early March by fewer than four percentage points and winning an equal number of pledged delegates, Cruz supporters scooped up five of Louisiana's six positions on key committees intended to write the Republican National Convention's rules and platform, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Only one Trump supporter managed to receive an appointment to a senior level delegate post. Eric Skrmetta, the Trump campaign's state co-chairman was named vice chairman of GOP convention delegation, a mainly ceremonial position without decision-making responsibilities.
It appears the Cruz camp's strategy of winning over state delegates who will be major players at the convention is bearing fruit. Cruz may end up with up to 10 more delegates favorable towards him in his goal to reach 1,237 delegates before Trump does at a possible contested convention.
RNC lawyer Ben Ginsburg stressed the importance of delegates and the changing of convention rules when asked by MSNBC during a recent interview.
"Each convention has to pass that rule and a number of other procedural rules for itself. There's no precedent that's set. In 2000 and 2004, it was five states. We moved it to eight states in 2012 for the reasons of that convention. It does not carry over. The delegates in Cleveland will decides how many states it takes to put a name in nomination," Ginsburg said.
"The delegates who will serve on the convention in the rules committee haven't even been selected except in a small number of states, so I think its way premature to say what delegates will want to do or even what the individual candidates in Cleveland will ask the delegates to do," he added.
GOP leaders across the country at the precinct, county, district and state level are meeting at various times in the near future to choose who will represent their state party as delegates at the convention as well as who will fill specific committee posts for their state.
In the state of Georgia, where Trump won decisively and was awarded 42 of the Peach State's 76 delegates, has had a similar turn of events. One particular county, Coweta, heavily went Trump's way by 12 percentage points, but Georgia Cruz campaign organizer Brant Frost told the WSJ that the senator's supporters will compose 90 percent of Coweta's delegates at state and district meetings. This group of delegates will be part of the larger pool of Georgia delegates that are chosen to go to Cleveland.
"A lot of Trump supporters are new," Phoebe Hobbs, a Trump supporter at a GOP Convention in Cobb County, Ga. told the WSJ, noting they were unaware they needed be at Georgia precinct meetings one month ago.
"There's a reason they are upset [with the political system]," said Hobbs. "They don't know how the party is run."
Louisiana Trump supporter Kay Kellogg Katz, a former state legislator who went to every Republican Convention since 1984, said the Cruz campaign played a better delegate strategy in the state. She lost her delegate position in a 22-5 vote to Kim Fralick, a Cruz supporter with no experience in a major political campaign.
A Washington Times columnist (Drew Johnson, on his twitter feed) is confirming Cruz had at least 2 affairs, and Allum Bokhari of Breitbart is confirming that the sex scandal was originally his story before he was scooped by National Enquirer. This is my only comment.
I second the comment if I may.
The National Enquirer is right about every 10 or 15 years. You Trumpets must all be crossing your fingers on this one. BTW, read the above story. Cruz is scooping up delegates by being smarter and knowing the actual rules of the game better than his opponent. Sounds like something from one of Don’s books, huh?
Drama.
Wash-Times and Breitbart columnists are backing it up on Twitter tonight. It does not look good for Teddy. I didn't even bother to read your article. It doesn't matter anymore.
Well, being a Washington Elite, of course Cruz knows the rules inside and out...Heck, half his staff is now GOPe.
The Washington Times is owned by the Moonies, is it not? And Breitbart didn’t even defend their own reporter against Trump. Odd that those would be your sources.
Any proposed rule changes must be voted on by the delegates. If Trump goes to the convention with a majority of the delegates, then this whole article is moot.
And if Trump has less than the majority, well, then all I'd ask is that the rules committee play fairly, unlike the time they denied Ron Paul the opportunity to speak, for no good reason.
Breitbart defended Fields to the point that they fired Patrick Howley for questioning the story.
I seem to remember a Brietbart / Trump story a bit back. How trustworthy did they turn out on that one?
Not very, but in Allum Bokhari’s defense, he wanted to publish story but it was held up by his editors. Ben Shapiro was calling the shots. Now he is gone.
ROFLMAO!
Trump supporters are working that Enquirer story hard. Seems they finally realized the majority of gop voters aren’t into him and he has no chance at being 45.
I knew Cruz had the ground game but didn’t realize all the intricacies of the delegates at state levels. Looking more and more like Cruz would win on the second ballot if neither has 1237 on the first.
The Washington Times and Breitbart are both confirming in addition to the Inquirer. That’s three sources and five women with pictures. Stick a fork in him. He would make a good Mormon though
I cannot wait for Cruz to be finished!
My only comment is to note an observation of how pathetic and small the Trumpsters appear with their dishonest smear attempts in their posts in this thread.
It’s actually somewhat sad to realize that they have NOTHING and are reduced to resorting to innuendo and FUD.
I agree with your assessment. The Trumpsters are beginning to panic.
Trumpeters are not beginning to panic. We are not the ones trying to manipulate the voter process for the GOPe to win. If they succeed, then Hillary will be president because like those on Cruz’s side keep spouting. “We will just sit this election out”. Works both ways. As far as I am concerned the GOPe is finished. Will never vote for another one! I’m tired of the ruling class using tax payer money to get rich off of while taxing the hell out of the middle class while thumbing their noses at us.
Not surprising. After Iowa, we all knew the caliber of integrity this Harvard-educated lawyer and DC politician had.
Just another agent of the DC Uni-Party, a stalking horse or Judas goat, if you will.
The pathetic thing is that Teddy Bare is going to find out his 30 pieces of GOPe silver is lead.
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