Posted on 04/26/2016 9:43:35 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Donald Trump: 10,050,657 votes
Mitt Romney (2012): 10,031,336 votes
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And Trump faced 16 other candidates.
Did I see that Cruz came in third in four of the five states and that Cruz and Kasich combined vote totals were not enough votes in any state to surpass Trump totals?
Ha Ha! Where is Mitt? Kidnapped by aliens I presume?
Did they (Trump and Romney) have some business dealings gone wrong or something? Romney seems to hate him and it almost seems like jealousy.
Did they (Trump and Romney) have some business dealings gone wrong or something? Romney seems to hate him and it almost seems like jealousy.
Romney is GOPe.
“Did I see that Cruz came in third in four of the five states and that Cruz and Kasich combined vote totals were not enough votes in any state to surpass Trump totals?”
yes and yes. Cruz came in a DISTANT 3rd in 4 of the 5 states, and came in a DISTANT 2nd in Pennsylvania. Trump was over 60% in 4 of the five states and 56% in Pennsylvania.
I know that but it seems a lot more personal to me.
Was watching the gang on Fox News, after Trump’s wins tonight, all saying “But he can’t win! How is he going to win?!?” And listing all the things he needs to do. Hilarious! Evidently what he’s doing is working quite well. He continues to be completely unorthodox and comes out on top. They can’t process it. Craziest election ever - in my lifetime anyhow.
Trump earned his billions by his HARD WORK. whereas Willard did it by shuffling money around, much like Warren Buffet.
I don't even think Romney actually wanted to be President but he did want the nomination, something his father coveted and never received.
And when you look at the history of the 1964 campaign and the way George Romney went against Goldwater it seems that Willard is cut from the same cloth or at least his father taught him the dirty tricks well.
I voted for Romney in 2012 but it was only a vote against BHO. I'll admit to not particularly liking him, nor did I like his father.
Probably jealousy. Romney is disgusting and he knows it. He couldn’t tie Trump’s shoe laces.
I think it's that everyone knows Hillary is a flawed candidate that should be beatable. She has only the Dem party line to follow and we see what that has done for us for 8 years.
She also has the email scandal. Even though the current corrupt administration will not indict her , it will be a major issue to hit her with during the election. Hillary is probably the weakest candidate the Dems have put up.
So if your Mit, and you blew your chance when you got tag teamed in the debate by obvious collusion between the administration and the moderator, you've got to be eating your heart out that a total outsider is about to become the nominee. It would drive me crazy if I came that close.
Trump earned his billions by his HARD WORK. whereas Willard did it by shuffling money around, much like Warren Buffet.
Even worse. Romney made his money by asset stripping. Buying companies and parting them out.
Early in his campaign, Cruz’s team put out a powerpoint called “Cruz - Can He Win?” that lait oud the Cruz strategy for their donors. It was based on the fact that many conservatives, evangelicals, and Hispanics stayed home and didn’t vote for Romney. So all Cruz had to do is to assembly a coalition of those voters and convince them to vote for him, and he’d win. His strategy was to be a better Romney than Romney was. The competitors they were worried about were Rand Paul, Jeb!, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, and Scott Walker. In a chart he ranks Trump 2nd from the bottom beneath Kaisch and above Linda Graham.
The document is out there and it shows how shallow and off-base the core of Cruz’s strategy has been.
He totally underestimated Trump from the get-go...and now we see the folly of that view. Trump has been the consolidator, beating Cruz handily in the very demographic segments he targeted. Thus he is reduced to lying and stealing delegates. Many people who know the inside story have written that Cruz never really cared about the Senate, it was a means to get him into DC where he could elevate his profile with stunts like the fabled fillibuster. It is also said that his religious committment is more of a means to accomplish his political ends, a view his charitable giving record tends to support.
I know he did, or at least Bain Capital did.
Bears repeating. "Corporate raider." See too, AMF.
The Red-eye Radio guys Eric and Gary, for those who listen to late nite AM radio, are doing their best to downplay and mitigate Trump’s success, since they’ve been anti Trump for ten months now.
That point of view will be the press and pundit majority position at least through Indiana, and seeing as how pundits aren't bound to reality, the "Trump can't win" or "Trump is at risk" can go through the November general election.
“The Red-eye Radio guys Eric and Gary, for those who listen to late nite AM radio, are doing their best to downplay and mitigate Trump’s success, since they’ve been anti Trump for ten months now.”
Yep. I used to be a regular listener until this primary got going. That’s when they chose to go all in with Cruz and joined the #nevertrump brigade.
Tonight I tuned in, just to see how they’d respond to Trump’s smashing victory, and as you said, they’re fiddling with the delegate math to make it seem as though Ted still has a chance to stop Trump and force a convention fight.
Eric Harley came right out and said that Trump’s victory tonight doesn’t really matter.
I swear, I don’t know what Trump is going to have to do to convince some of these hardcases in the media that it’s over for Ted. He could win Indiana in a walk next week, and some of them would still be prattling on in complete denial.
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