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Cruz eyes double-agent delegates in bid to snatch GOP nomination from Trump
The Washington Times ^ | 4/13/2016 | S.A. Miller

Posted on 04/13/2016 7:51:48 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Sen. Ted Cruz’s hopes for winning the Republican presidential nomination outright have faded, and he has shifted to a strategy of gaming the rules, angling to send enough double-agent delegates to the July convention to snatch victory from front-runner Donald Trump.

It’s a major reversal for Mr. Cruz, who just weeks ago insisted he would win the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination before the convention. But major wins in Utah, Wisconsin and Colorado have not closed the gap, with a series of East Coast primaries looming.

Now the best option for the senator from Texas is trench warfare at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Texas
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1 posted on 04/13/2016 7:51:48 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

He does this, just think what he’d do to the American people....


2 posted on 04/13/2016 7:53:32 PM PDT by JBW1949
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Cue Peter Gunn Theme music....

Double Nought Spies?


3 posted on 04/13/2016 7:53:41 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Double agent delegates organizing against Trump?

Gak!


4 posted on 04/13/2016 7:56:56 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Under regulations established in the 1980s, delegates cannot take money from corporations, labor unions, federal contractors or foreign nationals. But an individual donor is permitted to give a delegate unlimited sums to support his or her efforts to get selected to go to the convention, including money to defray the costs of travel and lodging.

From the Washington Post, 4/11/16.

5 posted on 04/13/2016 7:57:03 PM PDT by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Cruz has no honor. His belief that the presidency is his by divine right is scary.


6 posted on 04/13/2016 7:57:53 PM PDT by niki
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

The GOPe and Cruz are really suffering a backlash over the machinations to derail Trump.

The voters are going to be very bitter and we will lose the
Presidential election ... I guess that’s the plan. I wonder if they plan on losing the Senate and cutting the lead in the house.

If the folks aren’t going out to vote for the President, they aren’t going to vote for the Senate or Congressman.


7 posted on 04/13/2016 7:59:20 PM PDT by Fhios (Going Donald Trump is as close to going John Galt as we'll get.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
major wins in Utah, Wisconsin and Colorado have not closed the gap,

That's because they weren't major wins.

Sigh. Cruz is wrapped in a liberal fantasy narrative as thick as anything Hillary has.

Courtesy MSM.

8 posted on 04/13/2016 7:59:30 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Double agent delegates organizing against Trump?

Hey, does the GOP have a crack tiger teams of super frauds? Able Danger.

By the time this is over, banana republics will be laughing at us.


9 posted on 04/13/2016 8:00:05 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: JBW1949

LOL!

I suppose you believe Trump’s campaign isn’t trying to flip Cruz delegates?

This isn’t cookies in kindergarten.


10 posted on 04/13/2016 8:00:19 PM PDT by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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There was a time when people could hand out checks on the floor of the Texas legislature. I think some chicken magnate was doing it. I’m not sure it’s illegal now but they stopped doing it because it didn’t look good.


11 posted on 04/13/2016 8:00:54 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Never held a job in the private sector;never met a payroll,never created a job - CRUZ! Conservative!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Here’s a novel idea.

1. You develop a platform
2. You announce that you have entered the race
3. You address people in public and spread your plans
4. You submit to elections where people get the choose between your plans and the plans of others
5. You let the chips fall where they will
6. You don’t bother trying to get delegates who were fairly won, to switch to you rather than the person who won them.

Ted proves each day that he is not an honorable man.


12 posted on 04/13/2016 8:01:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hey Ted, why are you taking one for the RNC/GOPe team, and not ours? Not that we don't know.)
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To: dragnet2
By the time this is over, banana republics will be laughing at us.

So true.

13 posted on 04/13/2016 8:02:13 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: JBW1949
He does this, just think what he’d do to the American people....

Exactly. Cruz demonstrates over and over again, he doesn't care about the will of the people. And that's a very dangerous person to put in the Presidency.

14 posted on 04/13/2016 8:02:35 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: JBW1949

Exactly ..meanwhile if Cruz does happen to get a stolen nomination, the rest of us will eye staying at home ...oh well


15 posted on 04/13/2016 8:03:33 PM PDT by Neu Pragmatist (We are watching an election be stolen in real time -Defeat Cruz/GOPe - Vote Trump)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Freebies, promises or schmoozing to get a delegate to flip is disgusting. I feel that way now and I would feel the same way if they were given a ride on Trump Force 1 and a relaxing stay at Mar-A-Lago. It may be legal but it certainly isn’t ethical. It stinks to high heaven


16 posted on 04/13/2016 8:04:59 PM PDT by mouse1
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To: G Larry

If the people WANTED Cruz, he’d be leading...


17 posted on 04/13/2016 8:05:58 PM PDT by JBW1949
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

trump people are going to give themselves ulcers worrying about all of the boogeyman hiding behind every bush.


18 posted on 04/13/2016 8:07:15 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: VerySadAmerican
There was a time when people could hand out checks on the floor of the Texas legislature.

Now they just do it out of sight. Maybe Paypal.

19 posted on 04/13/2016 8:07:50 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: JohnBrowdie

They aren’t hiding...They’ve come out in full view.....


20 posted on 04/13/2016 8:08:53 PM PDT by JBW1949
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