Posted on 04/11/2016 8:51:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
Donald Trump once claimed he was the "most popular person" in upstate New York. After witnessing the impassioned supporters at a rally in Rochester, N.Y. over the weekend, he may have a point. Over 2,000 people turned up to his speech Sunday, even though temperatures were “frigid.” If you scroll through the event’s pictures, you’ll also find an ardent fan dressed as a “Trump Wall.”
Trump used some of his time at the podium to criticize the election primary process that has so far denied him the delegates needed to secure the Republican nomination. It’s “crooked shenanigans,” he insisted.
His supporters agreed. A few sounded off on what they view as the Republican Party’s bias against Trump.
"The sad thing is the guy's got to go against the Democratic establishment, and now he's got to go against his own party's establishment as well, and it's just not right," said Nasca, 48, who owns an investment company,
"It's absolutely ridiculous. But he's a threat to the big people in politics, the lobbyists, the elitists in the Republican Party," he added. "They're going to disenfranchise their own voters."
Cheryl Griggs, a 59-year-old voter from Hilton, New York, said she’s “never seen anything like it.”
"To go against the votes of the people and the will of the people and put somebody else in there, I think, is horrific."
Indeed, if the Republican primary results in a contested convention and party officials reject the frontrunner, Trump voters will be justifiably unhappy. They will have watched their candidate remain at the top of the polls for months, only to be denied the nomination at the finish line.
Trump isn’t the only one touring upstate New York ahead of next Tuesday’s primary. Former New York Sen. Hillary Clinton spent some time in Buffalo on Friday to try and remind voters how she helped grow the region. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders is speaking at a sold out event at the University at Buffalo on Monday, again proving that he is the Millennial candidate.
Both the Republican and Democratic campaigns are inundating the Empire State because they know how important the delegate-rich primary is in the race to their dueling conventions. Bill Clinton even noted New York could “matter most” in the race.
New York votes next Tuesday, April 19.
He’s right. The will of the people is being subverted. I’m can only take so much of that before I refuse to ever vote another Republican.
The Republican Party in NYS is corrupt.
Apparently, he’s realized what’s up with the rancor....he started out urging “CAUTION” for the Cruz camp.
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Yep...I heard this! Now he’s talking about some Boston Globe stories. Hope he gets back on Colorado quickly...
I think Limbaugh will paint this as sour grapes and political naivete by Trump (not that there is anything wrong with that), and astute preparation by Cruz. He might also point out the danger in allowing the popular vote (primaries didn’t exist before the early 1900’s), and even use Colorado as an example of why the old way (excluding voters) was BETTER.
My personal guess is that he’ll try to continue on a Trump/Cruz neutral basis. That’s what protects his money stream.
I think Limbaugh will paint this as sour grapes and political naivete by Trump (not that there is anything wrong with that), and astute preparation by Cruz. He might also point out the danger in allowing the popular vote (primaries didn’t exist before the early 1900’s), and even use Colorado as an example of why the old way (excluding voters) was BETTER.
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Eagerly listening now. We’ll see if you’re correct here!
it a nut shell, the $6 billion dollars MIA in Hildabest State Dept gives you a pretty good idea of how bad it is.
Well, it seems I was right. Limbaugh is on the “Can’t we all just get along” [within the Republican Trump/Cruz camp] mantra ala Rodney King. It makes sense... He needs listeners to keep the money stream going.
Frankly, I’m done with this man. He doesn’t off a whit to me.
Well, it seems I was right. Limbaugh is on the “Can’t we all just get along” [within the Republican Trump/Cruz camp] mantra ala Rodney King. It makes sense... He needs listeners to keep the money stream going.
Frankly, I’m done with this man. He doesn’t off a whit to me.
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Interesting, but just before the commercial, it almost sounded like he referred to Cruz as an “insider” because he understood the rules, whereas Trump didn’t.
I’m going to have to go back to listening Laura Ingraham!
“Sources” say, nuff said
EXACTLY!
I just posted this.
Trump blasts delegate fight as ‘crooked deal’
04/11/2016 8:58:57 AM PDT · 127 of 130
COUNTrecount to defendingright
RIGHT, he’s such a moron that he had used the media brilliantly to draw attention to this travesty.
All 7+million of his Twitter followers know about it, it is front and center on Drudge, who gets
VISITS TO DRUDGE 4/11/16
021,646,127 PAST 24 HOURS
2 Day headline...
FURY AS COLORADO HAS NO PRIMARY OR CAUCUS; CRUZ CELEBRATES VOTERLESS VICTORY
Countless millions have been alerted to the underhanded way Cruz/GOPe does business.
And then there’s the eneMedia....can you guess what the lede is tonight?
I’d say this is genius.
Trump is to blame for some of this,(which is probably why Corey Lewandowski has been demoted)you can’t expect to compete if you don’t have a ground game in each state, loyal people in place to watch out for your interests. Perhaps Mr. Manafort can pull it together. I still think Trump gets the delegates he needs.
GO TRUMP!
I didn’t know Trump has a radio show
It’s been proven that many of those twitter followers are made up
Fixed it.
Rush can rely on the party gaming rules and say “fair’s fair” but that has no impact on the heartfelt feelings of Trump supporters who feel they’ve been screwed. I hear there are a lot of them in Colorado nowadays.
The sad fact for Mr. Limbaugh and his excuses as well as all the pathetic excuses of the Cruz faction is that actual November 2016 voters don’t have to give a damn about those excuses. When you pretty much telegraph that voter intention and wishes don’t matter where the hell are you different from a rabid Democrat candidate like Hillary or Sanders? How? Apparently, these people think they can feed us sh!t and nothing every 4 years and we hold our sheep noses. Not ONE SECOND more in my book.
oh yeah is that so?
It has also been proven that there have been millions of Americans that have voted for Trump. Much more than Ted, who seems to get more and more delegates without actual voter votes. Why is that? Because ‘twitter’ accounts are fake? Hardly.
Ted Cruz and the GOPe may have won the Battle of Coloardo but they will lose the war.
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