Posted on 02/09/2016 9:22:42 PM PST by dennisw
Will the GOP establishment steal the 2016 nomination from Donald Trump even if the magnate arrives in Cleveland with the most pledged delegates but short of the 50 percent he'd need to be nominated?
Is a back-room deal in the works to have a "brokered convention" to deny Trump the GOP nod? I think there is such a plan and it must be exposed.
Donald Trump is our last hope to make Washington work for us - not the lobbyists, special interests and billionaire donors who control the corroded two-party system. As Trump says: "America is going to hell!"
I am a veteran of nine national Republican presidential campaigns, including the floor of the 1976 Republican National Convention for Ronald Reagan. My sources inside the Republican party are warning me:
The insiders have a stunning plan to stop Trump even if he wins the primaries.
The plan involves stalling Trump short of a majority on the first ballot, since many of the delegates pledged to him would no longer be legally bound to support him on subsequent ballots. There are many, many Trojan Horse delegates inserted by the GOP establishment who could bolt from Trump after that first ballot.
Remember, up until March 14 all primaries have proportional delegate allocation. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 97% , Chris Christie, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 79% , Jeb Bush and the rest will be winning delegates, too.
There are 278 Super Delegates who are GOP establishment insiders, likely opposed to Trump. They constitute 4 percent of the convention. Thus, Trump must win 54 percent of delegates elected in caucuses and primaries to guarantee he could block a plot to stop him.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Roger Stone=VERY smart man who has seen it all, and been there while it happened. Knows where the skeletons are buried. And a brilliant, fearless writer, to boot.
“To make it worse, Convention Rule 40 B says the Candidate must have a majority of delegates in at least eight states.”
I think that is do-able.
It is delegate count, not vote count.
So in a winner take all state, he can win with 30% and get all, which is more than 50%
But I agree the RNC may try something.
With every one else in the teens or single digits, they’re not going to amass enough delegates to stop Trump.
I don’t see that happening by March.
****can Trump win the majority in eight states? Just winning via plurality is not good enough. Trump can win a enough delegates to supposedly prevail at the convention but the convention will still be thrown open where Trump delegates desert him after the first vote which is the only round they must vote for Trump. How loyal are Trump delegates?
The entire Republican Party, nationally and at state level, countless lawyers and dirty tricksters, every Republican in Washington—all feverishly working on this scheme. The delegates will flip due to a) blackmail or b) bribes.
If you don’t have the required delegates, it’s “brokered.” That doesn’t mean it’s stolen with “backroom” deals.
Silly premise to the article.
Go ahead. Do it. He wins all of this, and then they pull a wormy trick like this? That might be fun because it will finally be the official end of the GOP.
If Trump meets all of the requirements, I don't see how they can stop him and have a brokered convention. If he doesn't meet all of them, yes, the damned RNC will have a brokered convention and pick some miserable POS, who will, of course, lose.
Should this happen, this nation is OVER, for good and all and so is the stupid GOP!
Trump has HUUUGGGE negatives.
If he can’t get a majority of the vote, he’s a loser, as the majority will be “anyone but Trump”.
His supporters increase the opposition every day.
So I guess we need to check out which are the winner take all (delegates) states. How about New Hampshire??
INTERNET ANSWER IS NO!:
No, it isn’t. In both the Republican and Democratic contests, delegates from the New Hampshire primary will be awarded on a proportional basis. This means that after the votes are counted, the state’s delegates will distributed to the candidates based on how much of the vote each one received. In a winner-take-all state, by contrast, whoever comes in first place receives all of the state’s delegates, and everyone else goes home empty-handed.
Yes Roger Stone know where the bodies are buried and where what skeletons are in what closets. He has been around.
The left & GOPe globalists want a brokered convention to install their candidate. They don’t want the peoples choice. They still think that we will vote for their candidate in a race against a communist. My vote will be for Trump and only Trump. GOPe can stick it if they shove a Rino down my throat. Better to weaponize my vote and commit hari kari than let them get away with this any longer. There is no more holding of the nose, or settling.
if trump is as smart as he says he is, he’ll be prepared before the convention to go indie. that’s the best insurance/leverage he can have against the coming steal by the gopes.
By its very nature a brokered convention is full of a thousand and one backroom deals AKA vote buying. Buying the votes of delegates via money, favors, drugs, high class call girls, anything!
3rd party route is a possibility, according to this:
“Though any Trump bid could face obstacles erected by state elections officials, they are surmountable, according to experts.
Trump could compete in Republican primaries through late March - when two-thirds of states will have voted and two-thirds of delegates will have been awarded — before deciding to mount an independent run and still make the ballot in every or nearly every state if he is willing to pay the seven-figure price, according to Richard Winger, the editor of Ballot Access News. Ralph Nader’s ballot access attorney, Oliver Hall, and Bill Redpath of the Libertarian National Committee concurred with that assessment.”
>>”He wins all of this..
You don’t have a brokered convention if Trump “wins all of this..”
If they do, couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy.
But they won’t. They are seeing that with Trump they’ll continue lobbyist deals and all the other BS so why should
they care if he wins. He is establishment only worse.
FWIW, they would be just as likely to do this to Cruz
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