Posted on 03/21/2016 12:11:06 PM PDT by justlittleoleme
Top political aides to Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz connected Friday to discuss how delegates currently bound to Rubio might be allocated, a Cruz campaign aide confirmed to RealClearPolitics.
Although the conversation between Rubio’s former campaign manager, Terry Sullivan, and Cruz Campaign Manager Jeff Roe was brief and no resolution was reached, the development suggests the two former rivals could be moving toward detente if not an active collaboration.
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If Rubio does decide to endorse Cruz, the aide said, that decision would likely be reached between the two of them, not among senior aides.
“Marco and Ted are good friends, so the reality is, this wouldn’t be like how other endorsements have taken place,” said the aide to Cruz. “The way this will happen is Marco and Ted will talk, and both of them will let us know.”
Another line of communication opened Friday, however, when Sullivan and Roe spoke by phone to discuss the fate of Rubio’s delegates. They also talked about the state of the race more generally, but did not touch on the possibility of an endorsement from Rubio.
Asked whether an agreement has been reached between the two camps, Roe said no. “We have no agreement … and any suggestion to the contrary is false,” he said. “Maybe it will become true, but that certainly is not the case right now in any shape, fashion or form.”
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I thought nobody in the Senate liked Cruz.
Check this out...
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-endorsement-primary/
We need to know either State by State or at least on the average how they are bound and what their allegiances really are. Knowing how they are actually chosen would be a start.
Impy might know. I'm not sure who else would if he doesn't.
Brilliant Analysis.
Cruz, Rubio Camps Discuss Delegates:
Cruz camp: “Wish our candidate had more delegates”
Rubio camp: “Wise we had a candidate”
My Open Letter to Ted Cruz
http://www.jeffhead.com/Cruz-ltr.htm
Did you see DT’s quote to Mittens after he lost that he was ‘too hard’ on illegals by suggesting they self-deport, and thus lost to zero? You believe this guy’s gonna build a wall?
“A candidate cannot release his delegates TO another candidate. Many states don’t recognize delegates as released at all.”
Seems no one notices this all important point.
Exactly.
I would be interested to see that.
Romney's father was a GOPe critter and Romney has been GOPe all his life...
If Trump is a Rino, he's a Rino I can get behind...I quit the Republican Party years ago because of the likes of Romney...
Trump is not campaigning for Party unity...Trump is campaigning for pro America and pro American sovereignty...The Republican Party can die for all I care...
You are correct.
My understanding is that each state has their own rules on delegates that are bound to a candidate who drops out.
A few states (Iowa and Texas, for example) would bind the Rubio delegates to vote for Rubio, whether he drops out or not, on the first ballot. They would be free agents if there is a second ballot.
Tennessee binds delegates to their candidates for the first and second ballots.
However, most of them allow the delegates for the non-candidate to vote for anyone they want on the first ballot. A Rubio endorsement would likely include an urging that his delegates vote for the candidate that is being endorsed.
That's the most important question for Cruzers...
No she won’t even need to seriously campaign.
They will DQ him.
Rubio has won 164 delegates. They are up for grabs. Trump needs to make the better deal. If Cruz "is stupid enough to pull it", it is because Mr. Deal Maker failed to make the better deal.
If Trump cannot out-deal Ted Cruz, how is Trump going to out-deal Mexico and China?
Ding Ding Ding
The body language before and after those three debates was very telling.
I also suspect Rubio was conned by Cruz to go negative and do his dirty work.
None of this matters, though. It’s all just an attempt to dampen turn out. Trump has this locked up.
Why is this three-day-old article listed as “breaking news”?
Indeed, very pathetic.
They treat Trump as if he has been a professional politician all his life but the fact is, he isn’t. It’s what he and the American people are fighting against and their establishment.
Ted Cruz is proving more and more to the establishment professional politician and they refuse to see that.
CGato
I don’t appreciate Cruz’s approach at this point.
He’s effectively lost. He might continue to play for reasons that become apparent later, like exacting a great conservative point from Donald in exchange for a coronation. Which would all be fair enough.
What I don’t like is what appears to be an effort to win against the math. Cruz cannot manipulate the delegates against a plurality that favor Donald for the win. That’s plain wrong. I won’t support it.
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