Posted on 04/15/2016 2:57:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Donald Trump's presidential campaign has all but thrown in the towel in Wyoming ahead of Saturday's Republican convention.
The billionaire businessman's campaign made a conscious decision not to commit resources to Wyoming, according to Alan Cobb, a senior Trump adviser.
Trump picked only up a single delegate in last month's Wyoming county conventions while Cruz scored nine. There are 14 more delegates at stake at this weekend's state convention. In a telephone interview with The Associated Press from the convention site in Casper, Wyoming, Cobb said Friday that he expects Trump's rival Ted Cruz to sweep what remains of the 29 delegates up for grabs in the Wyoming convention....
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Or to look at it another way, the only northeast state with a nominally conservative Governor.
You better do some research on the rules in California. But do it on an empty stomach.
He's about to get massacred in NY, PA, RI, CT, DE and MD.
But hey, he got a few delegates in Wyoming! Woo-hoo!
Priorities.
The past, has not been worse for you?
John Bohenor, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan.
Have those hacks been good to you?
He is not. He only needs to get 38% of the delegates to force a second ballot.
Trump wins when gets 1237 delegates at the convention.
The ‘inevitable’ argument broke down in WI.
And many freepers think that Trump is going all the without Cruz supporters.
It is going to be tough enough to defeat Hillary as it is.
We will need all defeated field members (even Kasich) to win in the fall. Having the entire field trashed to where they are not able to help Trump ( should he win) is not helpful.
Actually some FReepers are supporting the party assigning delegates and cancelling elections. How third world of them.
Is there going to be a vote in Wyoming? It might be helpful to the delegates to know who the folks they’re representing want to be the nominee.
Cruz will get slaughtered in the next 6 primaries, where citizens
actually have a say and vote.
Actually they share one...
Cruz will be mathematically eliminated from being able to reach 1,237 on the first ballot on April 26.
From there, Cruz can explain to the electorate why he’s still running. Even Cruz’s own supporters, according to yesterday’s CBS national poll, don’t want a contested convention. And the only way he can win come April 27 is just that.
Cruz won’t be winning 1,237 before the convention. Cruz is about to be on the verge elimination on April 19th, and for sure he will be eliminated from getting 1,237 on April 26th. Cruz plays his silly games in an attempt to stop Trump from getting 1,237 by convention time. It will not be Cruz who wrangles the Republican nomination.
It’s clear that these Wyoming people want Cruz, not Trump. Yet, when he again loses tomorrow at the WY state convention, Trump will bitch and moan that he was somehow “cheated” and Cruz “stole” the delegates.
That’s what I was thinking when I read the headline of the Thread....didn’t Wyoming already vote?
What the hell is Cruz on? Are we sure he shouldn’t be in a ‘padded cell’ along with Hillary????
In the Republican presidential primary in New York, the Sun urges a vote for Senator Ted Cruz. It hasn’t been our normal practice to endorse in the primaries, but this year the vote, set for Tuesday, will take on outsized importance as we career toward a contested convention. The junior senator from Texas has emerged from a crowded field by dint of his fidelity to principles — limited, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a strong foreign policy — that couldn’t be at higher premium. They are the true New York Values.
Our endorsement is not animated by hostility to either Donald Trump or Governor Kasich, both of whom are running well ahead of Mr. Cruz in the polls in New York. All three are better on key issues than either Secretary Clinton or Senator Sanders. We like Mr. Trump’s willingness to re-think the United Nations. We’re not against better trade deals. We are against a retreat from NATO, and Mr. Trump has been too xenophobic in his use of language in respect of religion and the immigration issue. Mr. Cruz, a former solicitor general of the border state of Texas, has been more sage.
The first thing we are looking for, in any event, is a candidate who grasps, is committed to, and is excited by America’s constitutional principles. The Constitution ought to be a unifying instrument; it is, after all, the only thing that all of our legislators, officers, and judges — from the President to the county sheriffs — must be bound by oath to support. Our ideal candidate is someone who thinks in constitutional terms and who references and reveres the principles in our national parchment.
On this head, Senator Cruz laps the field. He has done a better job than any other Republican at building a constitutional approach. He has also done a better job on the economy, though we wish that all candidates in both parties would grasp that the bitterness over illegal immigration into America can be permanently addressed only by economic growth. It is not the abundance of labor that has stunted our progress but rather the dead hand of government upon our economy.
Mr. Cruz has put forth a more principled approach to taxes than another fine senator, Marco Rubio. Mr. Cruz’s flat tax is more strategic, more equitable, more pro-growth. Both Mr. Cruz and Mr. Trump would seek the cuts in corporate taxes that have exiled to foreign countries trillions of dollars in corporate reserves. But Mr. Cruz has been far ahead of any other candidate in marking what for us is an essential element restoring American growth and employment — monetary reform.
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.... New York, in 1788, ratified the Constitution only on the caveat that a Bill of Rights would be included. Those are the true New York values, and Mr. Cruz has been the most faithful to them in the current campaign.
Source: New York Sun | April 15, 2016 | Editorial of The New York Sun
If Cruooz could win Wyoming say 25 more times maybe he can get the nomination.
100% Cheney GOP machine. The state was never going to be anything but unanimous establishment candidate – Cruz.
No point for Trump to spend a penny there.
Cruz has a big credibility problem. The guy is truth deficient.
Citation on the 38%, or was that something Levin yelled about?
Get ready for another whine.
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