"They're not allowed to do double-crossed! I'm the only one who's allowed to do double-crossed!"
Posted on 04/10/2016 11:45:02 AM PDT by Rockitz
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, with the help of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, prevented Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) from slating his preferred delegates in Michigan over the weekend. “The Texas senator’s campaign ran eight delegates for eight committee spots and lost every one, alleging it was “double-crossed” by Kasich supporters,” CNN reports.
“The Michigan delegation picked one Trump supporter, Matt Hall, and one Kasich supporter, Judi Schwalbach, for the two seats on the powerful rules committee. The Cruz campaign lost votes for both seats.”
This maneuvering becomes important if no candidate reaches the 1,237 delegate threshold to clinch the nomination on the first vote at the Republican National Convention in July. The delegates become unbound on the second ballot and can cast a vote for their personal favorite.
“The Cruz campaign tried a takeover and they failed miserably,” Kasich’s Michigan delegate director Jeff Timmer said. “It backfired and they ended up with nothing. There’s been all these reports about how they’re out-organizing everybody. Not here.”
Until Michigan, it appears the Cruz campaign has successfully swept nearly half a dozen states, slating delegates favorable to the Texas senator.
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Good!
Afterall, Cruz did some shinanigans to get the Colorado delegates.
I agree , but Cruz/GOPe has to be stopped from stealing the nomination from Trump
So there will be dozens of articles and opeds about this, just like we had to endure hearing about Cruz’s ground game being so great, right?
Right?
:snort:
LOL!
Kasich and his weird quivering condom like lips are shameless and creepy
Is all this “delegate wrangling” something new? I’ve been following presidential elections since 1972 and this is the first election cycle I’ve ever heard of this happening.
Shrug. Them’s the rules. Kudos to Trump’s people for finally being able to perform in relation to the rules. Funny thing is you won’t see Cruz supporters crying about something being stolen.
Congratulations to Donald and his new ally.
Trump needs an “ establishment whore” who knows how to work with political bureaucracies . Kasich has management experience in both state and federal govt agencies and networking and contacts in both governorship and congressional organizations, so that would be a great asset. Plus he is the ying to Trump’s high energy bombastic yang
. If Kasich is what it takes to convince and reassure the brown shoe republicans there is a familiar face and name in the executive office, then so be it.
Ironic isn’t it that Kasich’s liberal stances make him a “good “republican but Trump’s far more mixed conservative-moderate stances make him “ not a true republican”
Kasich’s 99 Ohio delegates would be a useful asset to Trump but wasted on Cruz
The Lying King Ted.
Oh my, the Boston Globe will be greatly saddened..
There’s never been a contested convention in that time, except in ‘76, and that wasn’t much of a contest.
The normal ‘delegate wrangling’ is usually behind the scenes at conventions and concerns rules and other committees, and other mostly boring procedural stuff. Overrated.
Given that Cruz lost the Michigan primary it would be a stretch to claim that Trump “ stole” his cheese
Now, when a man campaigns big and wins big in a state, it’s a different matter when a rat who lost goes back later and steals the cheese bite by bite
Not really new, it is just normally never an issue. The Republicans frontload the primary season with states that are mostly friendly to establishment moderates who at least pay lip service to social conservative issues.
It backfired big time this year where many of those votes split between a moderate and a social conservative, neither of whom are establishment flunkies. The combination of the establishment wanting to pick and the split between those two candidates being pretty close has lead to the delegate wrangling actually mattering a lot more than normal. This is further exacerbated by one candidate crying foul on social media and a greedy media trying to create as much controversy as possible to gin up their ratings.
There was a time where the party just picked with a vote at their campaign instead of national primary votes. Remember, at the end of the day the primary process isn’t about picking the President, that comes in November. It is about a political organization picking its own representative.
The majority of the time it works out to the candidate being picked by the majority, whether through primary votes or convention votes. Sometimes the second or third choice gets it because the first place person wasn’t able to secure their win. That process gave us Abraham Lincoln for example.
Despite all the big talk, if Trump gets his winning majority of 1237+ delegates, he’ll be the nominee. There won’t be any games, no sudden rule changes, no backdoor deals. The Republicans won’t risk a riot, both political, leading to third party candidates and people staying home, and literal - people burning cars in the streets of Cleveland.
It appears that is the reason that Kasich is still in. He only states that he wants ‘delegates’ and not to win. I believe that he thinks that Trump will need his delegates to get over the hump before the convention...I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump will resist that temptation until the last moment, or until he really needs them. Would anyone want Kasich’s baggage??Not unless they had to have it. Just my opinion. This might actually be the RNC’s hole card as well. If they can’t beat Trump or Cruz, keep their stench around them with a VP...and wait until next time. All guesswork, but feasible.
Why should they cry, Cruz lost Michigan?
I bet Cruzies would be crying if Trump stole Wisconsin delegates.
Politically speaking (and only politically) Kasich is a great VP choice. Trump has said he wants a political insider as VP because he doesn’t have experience in that area and will need one to get things done. Kasich has that in spades. What’s more he can probably single handedly deliver the most important state in terms of electoral votes.
That said I still maintain that Kaisch either 1) thinks he’ll win at convention, or 2) is Hillary’s VP pick and is just sowing chaos to her benefit. I’m leaning towards #2.
Wouldn't it be something if Cruz's delegate-stealing forced Trump to choose one of those other two as VP to thwart him? It would be worth it to bring down the GOP backstabbing elite, and Cruz along with his "new" buddies!
So you missed Baker and Ford in 1976 screwing Reagan?
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