Posted on 03/31/2016 10:48:42 AM PDT by detective
Pollster and political strategist Pat Caddell, a mainstay of the “Political Insiders” roundtable on Fox Report Sunday, joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Thursday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to talk about the state of the Republican primary race and the hopes of the GOP establishment for an eventual nominee other than the current candidates running in Wisconsin.
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It will be either Mitt the sh*t or Lying Ryan.
So the GOPe has clearly decided they would rather have Hillary than Cruz or Trump. Because they know that’s who will win if they nominate anyone other than those two.
I’m voting for Trump even if I have to write in his name.
The only other thing I see is Trump buying them off at the convention.
If Trump gets the 1237 required, and they try to pull this off, I see him offering them a very large sum of money if they bring the nomination for him foreward.
They will fold like cheap lawn chairs.
Pat is wrong again.
Motives do NOT dictate results.
If someone other than Trump or Cruz is put forth at the convention we will see the roof come off of the place.
The speculators suggesting the Delegates are open to taking instruction from ANYBODY are ill-informed and only promoting sensational theories to maintain some level of significance.
You and I, my wife, my sister, my brothers. That makes 7 total.
It is interesting to note that by convention time Cruz will have probably won at least 8 states and qualify under rule 40.
So by that time it would be between Trump and Cruz if neither had won it outright.
The Cruzites just can’t see that changing the rules says neither Trump non Cruz is going to get the nomination.
“You and I, my wife, my sister, my brothers. That makes 7 total.”
Include me, my wife, my mother and a host of friends...I think there will be millions of us who intend on voting Trump this November no matter what. And, that is a very good thing!!!
There will be some state party picked delegates representing Tump and Cruz who would vote GOPe in the second round, but for the most part you are correct.
I believe both Trump and Cruz have a responsibility to pick delegates who won't vote GOPe.
Duh.
I think Trump needs to explain this.
Also think he should let it be known straight up he is running against the current GOP establishment. Stop leaving an opening for them, they will come back after the convention.
Trump and Cruz aren’t “picking delegates”.
I am volunteering to be a committed delegate for Cruz.
Fellow delegates as State Assembly determine whether I go.
All available information suggests a significant majority of our State Delegates to Nat’l will be committed Cruz.
Cruz has already won 8: Iowa, Alaska, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Main, Idaho and Utah.
The only candidates who qualify under Rule 40 are Trump and Cruz. Unless Kasich suddenly wins 7 more states, Trump and Cruz will be the only ones eligible when the convention starts.
The only way I see the convention adopting a different rule is if all or most of Trump's or Cruz's delegates join with the delegates pledged to the ineligible candidates to do so. Since the rules are adopted as the first order of business, it would be pretty stupid for either Trump's or Cruz's delegates to open the door to additional nominees.
That's why it is a good idea to have a ground operation in each state that knows what each state's rules are.
Also why Trump supporters are now starting to panic over the increasingly likely prospect that Trump will not win enough delegates to get the nomination before the convention.
Trump won 21 states, and nearly all the states were won by tens and hundreds of thousands of votes. The millions that have attended his rallies have voted.
Marianas 343... Hawaii...........6,000
Vermont...... 20,000.....Nevada.........35,000
Kentucky..... 83,000.....N. Hamp.....101,000
Louisiana.... 125,000....Arkansas....133,000
Mississippi...191,000....S. Carolina...241,000
Arizona........250,000.....Mass...........311,000
Tennessee....333,000.....Virginia.......356,000
AlaBama.......372,000.....Missouri......382,000
N. Carolina...458,000.....Michigan...483,000
Georgia........503,000......Illinois.........557,000
Idaho.............100,943......Florida 1,079,741
Trump won 21 states with 6,020,000 votes. He has a total of 7,897,990 votes and 755 delegates. Thats 290 more delegates than Ted. (hat tip FReeper Beautiful_Gracious_Skies)
Cruz’s only way to prevail now is by pure chicanery, just how he began this campaign. It is impossible for him to have a clean delegate win
I listened to an interview with Roger Stone and he was talking about delegates. He used Texas as an example for some rules that work against Trump. The Texas delegates have to be people who were at the state GOP convention 2014. Trump was not running in 2014, so there will not be any Trump delegates from Texas going to Cleveland. He said other states have similar rules. It should be interesting to see how it comes out and how serious the GOP establishment is about enforcing their will.
Me too so that is at least 8!
A vote for Cruz is NOT A VOTE THAT WILL ELECT CRUZ.
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