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Reckon they can add a couple inches to the 5'8" Cruzer while they are at it?
Posted on 04/12/2016 5:32:17 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
With Ted Cruz and his GOP Establishment allies doing all they can to steal the election from Trump the prevailing thought is there will be a contested (open) convention. Trump has said he thinks he will have the delegates necessary for the nomination. The NY Times says Trump getting 1,237 is not mission impossible. The NY Time’s outlines a path through Indiana and California. MSNBC say’s Pennsylvania could be the state that could stop an open convention. Here are the MSNBC highlights;
“At issue is Pennsylvania, which votes on April 26. Officially, only 17 delegates are directly at stake in that contest. They will go to the winner of the primary statewide. The other 54 are unbound delegates. They will run under their own names on the ballot, and if they are selected as delegates they will be free agents in Cleveland, free to vote for any candidate they want. Because Cruz has done well with unbound delegates in other states (like Colorado and North Dakota, where there was a premium on organizing), many are assuming that Pennsylvania’s unbound delegate bloc will be a problem area for Trump. It actually could be a major source of strength for him.
Here’s what we know. 162 Republicans are running for the 54 unbound slots in Pennsylvania, and 127 of them – so far – have replied to a survey from the Pittsburgh Tribune review. More than half of them are now saying that if elected as delegates they will simply vote for the candidate who wins their district. Another 20 say they’ll vote for Trump and 13 more say they are uncommitted (with several of them indicating that the results in their district will factor into their decision). Only 20 unbound delegate candidates in Pennsylvania now say they’d back Cruz...
(Excerpt) Read more at stumpinfortrump.com ...
Globalists are not Conservative. Cruz is a Globalist. Therefore he is not a conservative.
Cruz was an establishment lawyer under Bush, helped write his NAFTA bill. When he got his ass handed to him in the south he called in the establishment to take over and run his campaign.
Little fact; Cruz is winning nothing now, its all the GOPe political machine. If he had such a good ground game and talent with delegates he would not have lost the south as bad as he did. This is why the GOPe is smug and moving to install a Rino like Ryan at the convention.
Hint, when the delegates from Colorado are primarily State GOP party officers and donors, you are getting shafted if you think they are supporting Cruz for the Nomination.
Cruz will not win, my prediction.
Ya and take a look at what you have to dole out to get in there.
And these Cruz supporters on here dont think they have been set up?
It is clear that the suckers on here that claim to be Cruz supporters are loyalists who are as guilty of the criminal activities as the elites in DC.
I saw first hand how it worked with a FORMER friend of mine-the congressman from MI 1.
You know Iran is democracy, but everyone with a brain know its a sham. Instead of saying rules are rules, how about fight against an unfair system
The rules have to be approved by the convention. Too bad Trump trashed so many republicans during his campaign. Good luck.
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Reckon they can add a couple inches to the 5'8" Cruzer while they are at it?
Cruz may have won within the “rules”, but he is giving the appearance that he is subverting the will of the people. The picture will only get worse for him in the next couple of weeks. He will come in with embarrassingly low numbers.
Trying to sway or capture delegates in states he outright loses will only paint him as a crooked, lying politician
Kasich has a better chance in PA than Cruz.
Paul Manafort used to work with Roger Stone and Lee Atwater, many years ago.
I am well aware of that.
I used to work with a guy who’s in jail for espionage. Doesn’t make me a spy.
Never said I liked the Party system, especially the two party elitest class of Washington DC. That is essentially the problem with our government. Trump or Cruz running as a GOP isn’t the whole answer to that. It needs to start in the districts and states to change the two party elitest domination of our representative government.
Trump should just take the nomination at gunpoint. He’s not going to lose any supporters if he has to shoot someone.
Trump should just take the nomination at gunpoint. He’s not going to lose any supporters if he has to shoot someone.
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Yeah. Trump would be no worse than Cruz who continuosly shoots off with his Lyin’ tongue.
Only in Trump world is Trump's total campaign incompetence characterized as having something stolen from him.
Its pretty well known except for in Trump-cult land what happened in CO.
Those Trump morons accidentally directed Trump votes to Cruz.
After firing the organizer initially put in charge of Colorado last week, Trump’s team hired Patrick Davis, a GOP operative from Colorado Springs, to put together a slate in an effort to win some of the delegate slots to be elected by just fewer than 4,000 party activists at Saturday’s assembly. Heading in, Cruz had already swept the seven assemblies held in the state’s congressional districts, each of which elect three delegates, giving him 21 of Colorado’s 34 elected delegates — a majority — before ballots hit the floor at the state convention.
“Trump’s last-minute organizing effort did not go well. The leaflet his campaign handed out listed a slate of 26 delegates. But in many cases the numbers indicating their ballot position — more than 600 delegates are running for 13 slots — were off, meaning that Trump’s team was mistakenly directing votes toward other candidates’ delegates.”
Noted.
Yeah it was such a legit operation it was only coincidence the delegates chosen just happened to primarily be GOPe State Party officers, Big donors and party faithful. Yep all above Board...
Bur hey, I want you to keep defending this treason on the GOP voters of the State of Colorado. This, the Phylis Shafly thuggery incident and the BS damage control arguments the Party insiders are pushing is doing massive damage to Cruz and camp, Thank you.
Replacing stupid with more stupid would be.....well, stupid.
Right?
heh.
Jedi.
“Threatening Riots at the convention”
Never did he threaten riots; he simply stated a possibility that we here on FR had been throwing around weeks before his statement. When he mentioned the possibility of riots, at the same time he said he would not be involved.
Ted’s lyin’ is contagious, apparently. Please see a doctor.
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