Posted on 03/07/2016 9:32:59 PM PST by Bigtigermike
PARK CITY, Utah — The presentation is an 11th-hour rebuttal to the fatalism permeating the Republican establishment: Slide by slide, state by state, it calculates how Donald Trump could be denied the presidential nomination.
Marco Rubio wins Florida. John Kasich wins Ohio. Ted Cruz notches victories in the Midwest and Mountain West. And the results in California and other states are jumbled enough to leave Trump three dozen delegates short of the 1,237 required — forcing a contested convention in Cleveland in July.
The slide show, shared with The Washington Post by two operatives advising one of a handful of anti-Trump super PACs, encapsulates the newly emboldened view of many GOP leaders and donors. They see a clearer path to stopping Trump since his two losses and two narrower-than-expected wins in Saturday’s contests.
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Problem, Trump is not vulnerable
This is just a media narrative
So when they install Romney as the nominee and he loses again what will they do, apologize?
Okay!
I have had enough of this crap.
I have finally decided at this moment to go all in with Trump!
The establishment must lose at all costs.
Sorry Cruz...it’s been good buddy. But if Trump is hated this much, and if tomorrow goes well for Trump, which it looks that way, then this thing is over.
I’m aboard the Trump train now...full steam ahead!
Nice!
Same ole WAPO crap. Trying to write history.
An older gentleman in the Walmart parking lot was handing out Trump bumper stickers a few weeks back.
It may still be in the back of the truck. May have to dust it off and put it on the bumper.
Trump and Cruz can put an end to this nonsense and team up.
Hillary Clinton must go.
Reince Reibus, Mitt Rromney and the GOP egomaniacs must go.
Trump/Cruz, or Cruz/Trump would cruise to victory.
It is totally fair.
If a candidate gets 1237 or more before the convention, the delegates are obligated to vote for him in the first round and he gets the nomination.
If no candidate gets 1237 before the convention, the vote goes to the next round. That’s the rules.
In the second round most most of the delegates are free to vote for whomever they want. Some are still obligated in the second round. After that all are free.
After the first round, it is open (as described above) and becomes a total floor fight.
Then whichever candidate can get the majority (1237 delegates) in a vote in the later rounds (with 8 states needing majority) wins.
The idea is a GOPe will pull it off.
But who’s to say Trump or Cruz won’t win in a floor fight?
If it happens it will very exciting.
Thanks I’m so glad you get it.
yes, Finnegan.
as the convention delegates will be predominantly Cruz and Trump people ... almost impossible for anyone but one of those 2 to be nominated.
Pete
A Finnegan from western Cork
That’s right. Trump is looking inevitable, at least to most of us realists.
The GOPe, MSM and Cuban chihuahuas are loco en la cabeza to think otherwise.
So when they install Romney as the nominee and he loses again what will they do, apologize?
The Uniparty doesn’t care. Their guy still won. The Uniparty always provides the illusion of choice to th voters.
These are the people that we have been looking up to as pillars of the community. Yech. They make me want to vomit. We have been under a government by deception all of our lives.
Remember 1964? The Goldwater convention? Remember Reagan in 1966? It was the same battle that we are fighting now but now there are many more people who’s eyes have been opened.
Up until now they have been saying where will the voters go? They just may have outsmarted themselves by showing their arrogance.
Coin flips or one potato two potato?
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