Posted on 04/11/2016 4:32:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Tsk, tsk.
Donald Trump’s effort to reset his campaign following defeat in Wisconsin showed no signs of paying off this weekend, as a series of technical failures by his campaign set his hopes back even further.
From Thursday to Saturday, Trump suffered setbacks in Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, South Carolina and Indiana that raise new doubts about his campaign’s preparedness for the long slog of delegate hunting as the GOP race approaches a possible contested convention. He lost the battle on two fronts. Cruz picked up 28 pledged delegates in Colorado. In the other states, rival campaigns were able to place dozens of their own loyalists in delegate spots pledged to Trump on the first ballot. This will matter if Trump fails to win a majority of delegates on the first ballot in Cleveland, as his delegates defect once party rules allow them to choose the candidate they want to nominate.
Trump’s campaign mounted a haphazard campaign for delegates in Colorado, where hundreds ran to be at large representatives in Cleveland at the state convention in Colorado Springs. The frontrunner’s advisers repeatedly instructed supporters to vote for the wrong candidates—distributing the incorrect delegate numbers to supporters. Cruz, who traveled to address the convention, swept the state’s 34 delegates on the back of a disciplined organizing effort, that included text message and video displays advertising his preferred slate.
This is a very distressing development, and I think my sentiments can best be summed up in video form.
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
“It’s entrenched GOPe party insiders”
Exactly
Of the GOpoliticians
By the GOpoliticians
For the GOpoliticians
ND’s 10 are unbound. That changes Cruz numbers - 10.
CNN has it as 746/538
http://www.cnn.com/election/
755/521
https://www.gop.com/official-2016-gop-delegate-count/
Following the rules isn’t corruption.
I agree with your entire post. He is employing this tactic.
Psychological operations (PSYOP) are planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and individuals.
He must be collecting a tidy sum for disrupting this site; he said months ago that he was a Cruz bundler and would raise a million dollars for him.
At this point I ignore all of his postings and thanks to his single minded posting frenzy I will never vote for Cruz.
Actually that number should probably be increased to 18:
"North Dakota Republicans selected 25 national delegates and, of those, 18 were on a list of preferred delegates that Cruz circulated -- a clear win for the Texas senator."
They may not be "bound", but they are Cruz delegates nonetheless...
They may or many not be for Cruz, which might be why the official GOP chart has a different count.
Trump won the straw poll here in ND.
The last link you gave gives no breakout of the delegates by state, so there is no way to tell where they got those numbers, but they don't match up with any others.
NDs are unbound Trump won the straw poll here.
The second link is the official GOP site.
That is not what happened in my district. We bounced some long time GOPe people out of delegate spots. But we organized in advance of the vote. We overwhelmed them.
We did a few things wrong but we are learning as we go. It is not a overnight thing like you imply. We are in for the long hall.
Yes, and Cruz managed to get his supporters selected for 18 of the 25 slots - so even if they are "unbound", they are still Cruz votes. If you don't want to include them in the current totals, that's fine - it's how they will vote in July that matters.
“Your candidate doesn’t have a clue”
Yours was a Canadian until a couple of years ago.
I certainly didn't intend to imply it's an overnight thing and as a matter of fact have said in comments here and elsewhere that overthrowing the power elite in the Party requires getting in the trenches with grenades and sharpened entrenching tools.
Hardly an overnight or easy process. Conventions, though, are an opportunity to use media bad publicity as artillery to break through the first line of trenches. People feel empowered when they see something happening on a national level and Conventions are the three ring circus where the outsiders can put on as good a show as the insiders can if they ban together in sufficient numbers.
Alas, everyone has better things to do than participate in a mass show of strength just for politics now that the Republicans control both Houses, and has had better things to do for the past eight years, so . . .
It actually hurts him big time...He has shown in state after state that he has no ground game. The Democrats love that...
It’s not Trump crashing in the polls. It’s Cruz. He’s likely to lose the next six primaries. Polling in 3rd place now in NY, PA and MD. LOL.
That is news to me, and explains a lot. I just thought he was a 20 something sitting in a little room, or maybe several people since he/they are active all day long. I think Jim Rob should be aware of that, because I don't think he wants his site to be use by paid political operatives. It's for individuals exchanging their views, not drones repeating talking points given to them by their boss.
If there was a textbook on how to lose elections, this would be an example.
Am I mistaken or hasn't he said that was his specialty (used to call it an MOS, now I don't know what it's called) in the military ?
Yeah, it is a ‘technicality’ when the candidate who gets the most votes from actual Voters, loses delegates because he does not know how to kiss ass the right way.
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