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Cruz: I'm fine with contested convention
The Hill ^ | 03-09-2016 | Jesse Byrnes

Posted on 03/09/2016 8:09:34 AM PST by scooby321

Ted Cruz says he would have no problem with a contested convention over the summer in the event neither he nor Donald Trump secures enough delegates before then to lock up the Republican presidential nomination.

Trump suggested Wednesday morning on "Fox and Friends" that Cruz was making the statement "because he had such a bad night last night."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 1stcanadiansenator; 2016election; brokeredconvention; bush; contestedconvention; cruz; election2016; establishmentcruz; flipflop; gopconvention; lyingted; romney; rubio; stoptrump; stoptrumpmovement; tedcruz; tedspacificpartners; texas; trump; trumpertantrum
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To: scooby321

60% of Mississippi Republicans hate Marco Rubio and Cruz wants him on the ticket to rob frontman Trump of his victory.


361 posted on 03/09/2016 2:30:35 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal ( REINCE PRIEBUS: Yeah, but no...you google Ted Cruz ... and immigration...Those are his words,)
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To: Sans-Culotte
We're all going to have to accept the fact that the GOPe would rather lose to Hillary than win with Trump.

That simple sentence speaks volumes.
362 posted on 03/09/2016 2:32:46 PM PST by Canedawg (Good fences make good neighbors.)
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To: scooby321

Cruz is now officially a member of the Washington cartel he’s always complaining about.


363 posted on 03/09/2016 2:35:38 PM PST by jersey117
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Remember that movie, “THE BIRDS”? :)


364 posted on 03/09/2016 2:42:22 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Robert DeLong

Au contraire: hooking up with a Bushie ensures that he’ll meet Mack the Knife at the appropriate moment and the GOPe will slide in their guy.

I don’t know what else Cruz can do realistically, but he has to know he’s being played. The fact that the thinks he’s smart enough to outwit all these people is itself a little scary.


365 posted on 03/09/2016 2:49:02 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: pepsi_junkie; John Valentine
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366 posted on 03/09/2016 2:51:28 PM PST by bushpilot2
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To: RitaOK

Yes. A fun film. Scary too....reminds me of some “recent” FReepers!

LOL


367 posted on 03/09/2016 2:55:34 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: nitzy

You are boring me.

If Cruz has the most voter awarded delegates at the time of the convention, then he should be the nominee.

Those people who awarded delegates to Kasich and Rubio lost, and they don’t get to change their vote after the fact.

I really don’t get what is so hard for you to understand about what I am saying.

If the GOP fails to nominate the person that its base indicated it prefers by the process of election in this primary, then the GOP will probably lose its base, or a huge portion of it.

It is not important to me if Trump loses. What is important to me is that the GOP not betray its base.


368 posted on 03/09/2016 3:00:32 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: LS

Ted will not win a brokered convention. He is now part of the “stop Trump at any cost” machine. And whatever he can get in exchange for helping.

Just a few days ago he said there wouldn’t be a brokered convention because he was going to win.


369 posted on 03/09/2016 3:02:58 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Cruz voters: Wake up! Trump is our only chance of stopping the gopE. If not now, never!)
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To: Mase; All

Everyone needs to remember that voters are NOT delegates. All delegates are a part of the establishment. That’s how they got to be delegates. That’s not to say that some delegates aren’t Trump or Cruz supporters. But I’d bet very few of them are.

This is one of the reasons Kasich and Rubio want to stay in. They want their name on the ballot.

If neither on gets the 1237 on the first ballot then the gopE can wheel and deal and give it to Bush, Romney or even Boner.


370 posted on 03/09/2016 3:07:21 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Cruz voters: Wake up! Trump is our only chance of stopping the gopE. If not now, never!)
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To: Helicondelta

If Romney is shoved down the throats of the Republican base,
there are LOT of Republicans that will abandon the party.
It SURELY will be suicidal for the Repugnicant puke elites to do this.


371 posted on 03/09/2016 3:16:40 PM PST by ch25061
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To: scooby321

Of course he is. That was the plan all along.


372 posted on 03/09/2016 3:32:53 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: LS
Au contraire: hooking up with a Bushie ensures that he’ll meet Mack the Knife at the appropriate moment and the GOPe will slide in their guy.

That was basically what I meant. Ted is not who he portrays himself to be in my opinion.

373 posted on 03/09/2016 3:37:38 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: scooby321

He just needs to drop out.


374 posted on 03/09/2016 3:42:57 PM PST by Crucial (At the heart all leftidsts is the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
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To: AnAmericanMother

Maybe this is his baby step


375 posted on 03/09/2016 5:13:34 PM PST by Ladysforest
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To: jjotto

Outside of one or the other winning outright....thats how I want this to turn out.


376 posted on 03/09/2016 5:23:30 PM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (Trump, effective govt. that will be great for crony "art of the deal" capitalists)
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To: scooby321

I don’t have a problem with contested convention where the nomination is fought for between the top candidates in the delegate count if neither have the necessary minimum (in this case, 1237) for nomination. Happened in ‘76 with Ford and Reagan, with Ford obviously emerging the winner.

But I have a big problem with a brokered convention where the party establishment chooses anyone they damn well please outside of the top delegate winners, even if their choice didn’t participate in the primaries.


377 posted on 03/09/2016 5:44:45 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Kudsman

Trump gets NY. NOT even close. If I were to walk through the busiest upstate mall and chat up a person here and there and bring up Cruz’s name - I will get a blank stare.

Cruz is not even a minor factor in NY, and certainly not in the city.


378 posted on 03/09/2016 5:46:33 PM PST by Ladysforest
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To: TomGuy

Unless he wins Ohio, the math for the rest of the race won’t add up to 1,237.


379 posted on 03/09/2016 5:48:19 PM PST by Fledermaus (I just don't trust Trump.)
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To: Helicondelta

You do know you are on a computer don’t you? And all of us reading this are on computers too?

Do you have no idea we that we can all look up your claim and prove it false?

Geez, it’s getting sychopantic around here lately.

In 2012 you needed 1,144...Romney got 1,575.

You Trump worshipers are starting to sound like Clinton lovers - what server? Oh, it’s a VRWC!


380 posted on 03/09/2016 5:53:57 PM PST by Fledermaus (I just don't trust Trump.)
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