Posted on 04/16/2016 5:43:18 PM PDT by bobsunshine
Donald Trump is set to win West Virginia but GOP elites will likely give the delegates to Ted Cruz anyway.
It’s the latest state where Cruz will lose but garner more delegates than Donald Trump. Cruz supporters call this a “good ground game.” The Politico reported: Donald Trump has a new enemy in the fight for national convention delegates: the alphabet.
Trump is well-positioned for a resounding victory in West Virginia’s May 10 primary, but his win will be accompanied by a delegate selection process stacked in favor of people with last names at the beginning of the alphabet — rather than his most committed supporters.
It’s a quirk of West Virginia’s mind-bogglingly complex delegate election process that has the Trump campaign on red alert and seems likely to leave the mogul with weaker support at the national convention than he’s expected to earn in the state’s primary. It’s yet another convoluted primary system likely to add fuel to Trump’s complaints that the rules of the Republican nomination process are rigged.
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Trump didn’t even know the rules in his own state for registering to vote in the primary. He’s a joke.
Seems to me a lot of fed up people are wanting to vote for him. You have a problem with that?
Cruz is filthy. Can you imagine him getting the nominee without voters? This is going to be a slaughter in November. Madam president will happen. The GOPe are the dumbest people alive.
I’ve seen this on 2 different videos and it sure looks like something is wrong in his relationships with his kids
Not that I am basing a vote on that but.... Maybe find out someday
Cruz is not a Conservative.
He’s a GOPe water boy.
He can only win caucuses where the party has an iron fist.
He can’t win primaries.
The Party can block Trump. They can give the nomination to Ted. They can’t get us to vote for him, or him to win the states they gave to Ted to block Trump.
Hillary Clinton will be the next president if you folks keep this up.
The GOPe can live with that. Can you?
Evidently yes. Evidently you like the GOPe just like it is. Evidently you only play lip-service to overturning the Leftist GOPe.
Why do you bother coming here, just to disrupt for the GOPe?
Well, okay, but so do we.
They will lead Ted one way or another, straight to hell.
Nobody except die hard Cruz supporters will ever vote for him.
I predict that a Cruz delegate selection, and the concurrent Cruz supporters salivation, will lead to a stunning defeat on a magnitude that reduce the top to political irrelevance.
Cruz would lose 32 states, including Florida AND Ohio, Kasich be damned.
My prediction, however I simply don’t believe that any of this will happen at all.
It’s Trump. Get used to it
From your description, the West Virginia process for delegate selection is pretty much the same as our process in Maryland. And IT’S NOT COMPLICATED at all — except, perhaps, for voters with low IQs.
My family did (early) voting yesterday. On our ballot you could vote for your preferred candidate for the Republican nominee. You could also vote for “up to three” candidates for “Delegates to the Republican National Convention” for our congressional district. There were 37 candidates for delegate for our district. Three of those 37 were identified as Trump delegates ON THE BALLOT LIST and three as Cruz delegates. All but simpletons would be able to identify and select the three Trump delegates if they wanted to vote for them. NONE OF THIS IS COMPLICATED AND IS CERTAINLY NOT “UNFAIR’” OR CONFUSING.
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270towin.com says otherwise
“I think the republican party leadership has decided.... they ain’t gonna give the nomination to King Trumpy.... they’ll lose before they nominate him. “
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No! Like CO, WY is another case where Trump was just not prepared. He did not understand that each state has its own unique election rules...each was a failure on his part!
People who blame the RNC or Cruz for these results are just not being fair!
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He didn’t even understand his own state’s rules enough to get his kids registered to vote for him. No way he’s gonna know the rules in the other 49 states.
That’s why he should have run as an independent... then all the fed up people on both sides of the isle could vote for him in the election.
Dream on
Even the bookies have abandoned Cruz and after NY it will be astronomical
aisle. :-)
As opposed to a desert isle.... :)
Not that I’ve never used the wrong word...especially when texting! LOL
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