An update on a Cruz supporter’s phone sent before a public announcement was made about Doland’s departure.
Posted on 04/11/2016 7:04:04 PM PDT by iowamark
OTTUMWA, IOWA — Mahaska County Supervisor Mark Doland had to leave the Second District Republican convention for a wedding. Such absences occur during the ebb and flow of voting and debating that started early in the morning and stretched into the evening as the sun began to set outside the community center perched on the Des Moines River.
But Doland was no ordinary delegate.
The story of this county official was almost immediately replaced, coupled with reports from across the state’s other three Congressional Districts illustrates why Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was almost perfect on Saturday.
An update on a Cruz supporter’s phone sent before a public announcement was made about Doland’s departure.
Cruz finished the day with 11 out of 12 available slots to the national convention filled by allies. The Texas senator also holds the majority on a state party committee, which will elect the remaining 15 delegates. Iowa’s other three delegates are the state chair and two Republican National Committee members.
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Out of the hundreds in attendance in Ottumwa, Doland had been identified and printed on paper as someone who would back Cruz on a possible second ballot in Cleveland and any ones that would follow.
The campaign for the Republican frontrunner Donald Trump knew what was happening after Doland left though. All they had do was check their phones.
Initiated before delegates even stepped inside the Bridge View Center, Cruz loyalists set up a texting service that lit up phones throughout the day.
A Cruz supporter displays the text message he received to opt into the service.
This seemingly simple solution illustrates why Cruz backers were able to almost sweep all of the available delegates in the four Iowa Congressional District conventions on Saturday.
The service was not perfect. Based on interviews with Trump supporters, a number of them signed up for the service. But before the most important votes of the day, which determined who would go to Cleveland and even those for state party offices, a text went out.
A Trump supporter’s phone with the list of Cruz preferred picks for a number of state party and convention committees.
At the Second District Convention, Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s campaign had one staffer who declined to name preferred delegates. Trump had a mostly volunteer run effort that fed off word of mouth and a hand scrawled list of names that appeared like a homework assignment rushed before class.
In Ottumwa, only one of the original Cruz slate, state Rep. Greg Heartsill, made it Cleveland. But the other two spots were filled by Amy Christen of Davenport, who expressed concerns about Trump and former Congressional challenger Mariannette Miller-Meeks who is maintaining her neutrality. A minor blip in a dominating show across the home of the first-in-the-nation caucuses.
WHY DOES THIS MATTER?
Iowa will send 30 delegates to the national convention, but due to the increasingly contested nature of the race the Republican presidential nominee may not be chosen on the first ballot.
Should Trump or Cruz not reach a set number of delegates during the primary and caucus process, currently set at 1,237, the nomination would go to a second ballot.
This is an important distinction since each subsequent ballot allows even more national delegates to vote on their own preference. Iowa delegates are bound to the results of the first-in-the-nation caucuses on the first ballot even for candidates no longer in the race like retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson or Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
Lie’n Ted...
Yep.
So while Trump is whining about Colorado, Cruz is again one step ahead, lining up Iowa’s delegates.
But Trump, he’ll get the bestest people, the very bestest....yada, yada, yada.
If I was a Trump supporter, I’d be wondering about now if he was as good as he says he is....over and over and over and.....
And if you missed it the fourth or fifth time, FOX will play it over and over and over and over and over and over and over...you get the point.
Yup he lied, not. You are just upset because Donny let you down.
Seriously I am beginning to suspect Donny only got rich threw his connections to the dems and GOPe like McConnel. Because he sure is messing up the delegate selection process.
If he cant organize this how can he run the country. These rules have not just been past today.
And it gives Charles Hurt at the DrudgeReport another scathing anti-Cruz headline too....
Ottumwa, Iowa. Home town of Tom Arnold. Wow!
You really do have to wonder if any of them will finally realize how big a ride they’re being taken on. If Trump was even half serious, he’d have done the legwork to get the basics done. But boy, can whip up a crowd.
last line should read “But boy, can he whip up a crowd.”
I normally wouldn’t bother, but it reads like I called him “boy” and I didn’t intend to.
Aren’t these Trump’s unofficial Super Pac’s.
Yeh exactly.
If Ted Bush could only get people to vote for him.... If I was as despicable and thoroughly unlikeable as Calgary Ted, I would probably concentrate on weaseling my way into delegates too. The truth is Cruz has only won 4 primary elections so far. When the voters decide he loses a lot of the time. People just do not seem to like him. I wonder why?
Courageous conservatives? Is it courageous to have your family make millions from sleazy Goldman Sachs, give basically nothing to charity and then portray yourself as a pious Christian? Hardly.
Why, did he screw an old lady out of her retirement money?
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3418598/posts?page=62#62
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Cruz has lost it fair and square and should step aside for the sake of the country.
If his continued efforts at thievery split and destroy the party,
we’ll be saddled by Hillary or burned by Bernie.
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62 posted on 4/7/2016, 8:03:29 PM by Jim Robinson
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Cruz lost the primary vote and is now aiding and abetting the enemy (the GOPe)
in their treasonous attempt to deny the nomination to the winner.
Cruz is a sore loser turned traitor against the grassroots voters.
And the foolish neophyte thinks the GOPe is going to let him have a shot at the presidency
if he helps them block Trump?
Laughable if it wasn’t so serious.
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51 posted on 4/11/2016, 4:58:07 PM by Jim Robinson
Cruz still living in Iowa as he is about to lose the entire east coast.
LOL my buddies little sister married Tom Arnold back in the day. Supposed to be a pretty good guy considering Holywood
Idiot. Cruz is about to lose new york’s 95 delegates, new jerseys 51 delegates and the rest of the north east as VOTERS VOTE. Sheesh! Trump wakes up on April 27th with 1100 as Cruz still down in the 500’s? Cruz refuses to face the voters.
Jim certainly has the right to his opinion - many of us would not agree with that opinion. That happens in a free society.
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