Posted on 04/22/2016 8:51:08 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Tim Clark, hand-picked by Republican frontrunner Donald Trump this week to be his new California political director, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Wednesday evening that the Trump campaign has "already outmatched" Sen. Ted Cruz in the Golden State.
"I've only been on the job for the past 24 hours," Clark said, "but it is a large, grassroots, unstoppable, momentous movement that is elevating Donald Trump in the state."
On Monday, Cruz's own California political director, former state GOP chair Mike Schroeder, speculated that the Trump campaign would fail to find enough delegates to fill three slots in each of the state's 53 congressional districts by the May 8 deadline.
Clark told Breitbart News that the Trump campaign would easily meet that deadline.
"We've got a list of about a thousand people who would love to be delegates for Donald Trump," he said, noting that the campaign was "vetting these names very carefully."
He added: "Based on what I know of what's happening in California, the organic Trump for President movement has already outmatched the organized, paid Cruz for President effort, and I feel very strongly we're going to be able to leverage the Trump for President volunteers into even greater activities, so I'm not worried about it."
Clark called the Trump campaign in California "a large, grassroots, unstoppable, momentous movement that is elevating Donald Trump in the state."
When asked which districts the campaign would be targeting, Clark said the campaign considered every one of them to be competitive: "We've got 53 districts that are in play. We have the task of building 53 different campaign plans for each of those districts-which we're doing. And we intend to contest every single one of those ... we believe we can win all 53 and take home 172 delegates."
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No it wasn’t...that was all MSM hype; California isn’t “hype” at all, it’s what it is.
Easily. And without really sweating.
The Trump-derangement afflicts think The Donald is complaining about losing delegates to Cruz. Trump could care less, as his is an embarrassment of riches even in the tortured GOP delegate selection miasma.
His Trumpness is actually decrying a system that is designed to eliminate voter influence in elections, and it is right that he shout it down.
Had Colorado and Wyoming held elections, the GOP vote in both states would have set records, bringing previously unseen-and-unheard-of thousands of previously registered Independents, Libertarians, Democrats and huge swarms who never even voted before.
By not holding elections, those states kept the GOP bereft of that Trumped-up benevolence. Pretty stupid crap when you look at it in those terms, but then again, this is the GOP that gave us "The Human Penholder" Bob Dole, Commie Johnny McCain, and Mitt "The Mormon" Romney the last three time at bat.
In baseball, they'd be warming the pine after three stunts like that. Yer OUT!
The problem with that 72%, is it was only in New York Values. Not easy to extrapolate beyond.
I just heard U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter of California’s 50th District give his endorsement for Donald Trump today on Sean Hannity’s radio show. Trump’s border security and immigration policy are only two things sufficient for his endorsement. When you add all the others, it is cream on the top. America needs Trump to bring us back from the abyss.
BRAVA....flaglady! :-)
Easily. And without really sweating.
The Trump-derangement afflicts think The Donald is complaining about losing delegates to Cruz. Trump could care less, as his is an embarrassment of riches even in the tortured GOP delegate selection miasma.
His Trumpness is actually decrying a system that is designed to eliminate voter influence in elections, and it is right that he shout it down.
Had Colorado and Wyoming held elections, the GOP vote in both states would have set records, bringing previously unseen-and-unheard-of thousands of previously registered Independents, Libertarians, Democrats and huge swarms who never even voted before.
By not holding elections, those states kept the GOP bereft of that Trumped-up benevolence. Pretty stupid crap when you look at it in those terms, but then again, this is the GOP that gave us "The Human Penholder" Bob Dole, Commie Johnny McCain, and Mitt "The Mormon" Romney the last three time at bat.
In baseball, they'd be warming the pine after three stunts like that. Yer OUT!
>Everybody loves Trump except neurotic people and sociopaths.
I think in the July 2015 to January 2016 timeframe, a given FReeper might have fallen either way. Cruz’s positions were pretty good, even if *cough* some of them were follow-ons to Trump’s statements. I particularly liked the idea of abolishing the IRS.
However, once the primaries started, Cruz, or his team, or both, adopted tactics that are entirely at odds with his own principles.
Ya know how the more-Conservative-than-thou crowd has been talking for 8 years about how losses were ok because the Dem policies will cause the populace to wake up? It happened — sure, due to Zero, but also due to the Rs entirely abdicating conservatism. Now, everyone has no patience to put up with party ‘rules’ and the usual paternalistic BS; and by adopting their means, Cruz won tactically for a while but is losing the strategic fight.
While some of Trump’s stuff isn’t my favorite — I’m more an Alan Keyes kind of guy — his lack of the personal social conservative (IMO big government, just targeting leftward) will pull in a lot of anti-Uniparty Bernie guys.
Bern has done a great service to us by pulling H so far left that we can occupy the whole middle, and by highlighting that her base is really the 1%, not the 99% (to use an Occupy meme).
Team Canada will be bug juice on windshield of the Trump Train if they don’t get off the tracks!
Got pictures?
No? Then you are continuing to reinforce the FR consensus you were a jerk long before Trump.
Interesting, about Ron Paul.
I feel bad that we didn’t clean up the rigging after what they did to him in ‘12. It wasn’t right and we’re once again paying the price for our apathy and inaction.
Surely, after this election the Republican Party can reconstruct the delegate system where the candidate or his surrogates can pick their own slate of contenders to be their proportioned delegates, who are at least core loyalists to the candidate.
How hard is that?
The bullying and the litmus tests of the congressional district gang mentality would be stopped cold, once they no longer have a say in who the delegates can be who are picked.
I don’t see the necessity for the battles after the First Ballot either. I believe the First Ballot can easily see the results of the popular vote and get the picture. Maybe I don’t have the whole picture, but in this case, it is ridiculous to me, for 2016.
Is that right? I didn’t realize that. However, I also saw a poll that 68% of Republicans felt the plurality winner and the delegate winner coming into the convention were good enough.
Now you have me wondering. Perhaps it was not a national poll. I will be more observant next time. Thx.
Actually, it was Ron that was trying to do the delegate rigging in 12 (He wasn't winning primaries). The GOP of course pulled out every lie and trick to stop him and called him scum for doing it. Which is ironic how they've done it themselves in favor of Cruz.
The thing that really destroyed Ron's campaign was the media ignoring him once they realized he was a threat. Total media blackout on Ron Paul. They wanted to do the same to Trump, but Trump pulling them in like they were cats and he's catnip.
When is Iowa going to get the balls to disqualify Cruz for lyin about Nice Doc Carson, and those IRS lookin yellow mail.
I also, think Cruz should GTFO.
I would love to be there when Trump says this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75SEy1qu71I
To RNC Chairman Reindeer Penis
Cruz is a fake, a fraud, a liar, and a cheat! California is ILLEGAL ALIEN CENTRAL and most Californians are sick of it! And by the time California has its primary, Cruz and KaSicko are just spoilers, who everyone will see as such.
What you say is true.
I remember Ron Paul had his very own delegates as stealth plants. However, I heard Doug Weat say that Romney had them removed from the floor. Some, bodily.
How he proved his case to do that, I don’t know, but we should think TRUMP might want to brush up on the bright idea. LOL!
Weat claims Trump can do it.
Doug Weat was on Lou Dobbs this week earlier. You guys might have caught the show. He is a Libertarian and a convention historian and has worked for ten presidential candidates, two of which he said actually won the presidency. He was enlisted with the Ron Paul campaign and worked for G W Bush.
It was very interesting. Maybe you could find that segment on youtube. I can’t do links.
My antenna perked up when he said all the talk is about the Rules Committee, but that it’s the Credentials Committee you want to watch. What do you think?
They have been, as the donor money comes in. Dweeb.
You're a rabid Cruzite....you and reality are not on speaking terms.
Trump LOVES our military and Vets, which were NOT used as "props", and they got the money; so shove your snarks where the sun don't shine!
And Trump doesn't use his 10 year old son as a PROP, dragging him all over the country, keeping him up far too late and out of school, as the Cruzes do.
What a great line. So humble, with teeth exposed.
Come on spurky, your guy just got absolutely blow to bits in N .Y. state and is also facing the same FIVE states, where people actually get to VOTE.
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