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Trump, Cruz Work to Block Kasich From Ballot at Open Convention
NBC News ^ | Apr 3 2016, 6:33 pm ET | Ari Melber

Posted on 04/03/2016 6:10:04 PM PDT by DrewsDad

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To: Neu Pragmatist

Neither Cruz nor Trump will have the Magic Number. But Cruz will be very close to Trump, or very possibly a bit ahead of him by Convention time. There is no sane reason he should stand aside for the likes of Trump.

A Cruz win at the convention is a GOPe steal only in your fever ridden brain. Instead it will represent a return to sanity and the opportunity to elect a true constitutionalist - the first one in decades if not longer.

And it will represent a decision not to hand the election to Hillary Clinton on a slver platter by nominating literally the ONLY candidate who cannot beat her.

Nominating Cruz will mean that the stupid party finally got its brains back.


21 posted on 04/03/2016 8:12:17 PM PDT by John Valentine ( Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: John Valentine

You are simply pushing GOPe propaganda ...why here of all places ? ..everyone can see what you’re doing ...


22 posted on 04/03/2016 8:28:45 PM PDT by Neu Pragmatist (It's now or never , Trump now more than ever ...If they defeat Trump, we are doomed)
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To: DrewsDad

Well, they have that in common anyway. LOL!


23 posted on 04/03/2016 8:29:35 PM PDT by luvie (TrusTED Cruz! "Where the vision is lost, the people perish"--Proverbs 29:18)
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To: DrewsDad

Someone needs to break the news to Kasich. He’s still insisting today that he is going to win the nomination at the convention.


24 posted on 04/03/2016 9:00:02 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Unfortunately it won’t be final until the Rules Committee meets at the convention, but if they have the delegates in place, it should be a formality.


25 posted on 04/03/2016 9:10:11 PM PDT by DrewsDad (Choose Cruz - The Consistent Constitutional Conservative)
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To: R_Kangel; DrewsDad
.... I know it’s wishful thinking but .... sure would love to see a Trump/Cruz ticket on the ballot. That would probably sew up the election with support from both factions. The Mouth and the Constitutional Brain .... or The Constitutional Brain and the Mouth ... either way is good with me.


26 posted on 04/03/2016 9:17:19 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: DrewsDad

The PREVIOUS rule 40 was still fairly strict, requiring a plurality of delegates in 5 states. Even if they went back to that version of the rule, Kasich would be kept out. The Romney rule is quite strict and probably too strict. It pretty much depends on winning 8 winner-take-all states, so, if more states decided not to be winner-take-all, which I thought the RNC was actually trying to encourage, the rule would make eligibility even more out-of-reach. The plurality in 5 states was more reasonable. I believe that version of the rule would, at this point, make only Cruz and Trump eligible.

I don’t think Cruz has yet qualified under the Romney rule, but should easily get there with a couple more midwestern states.


27 posted on 04/03/2016 9:56:43 PM PDT by JediJones (The younger presidential candidate has won the popular vote since '92. Vote younger. Vote Cruz. Win.)
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To: R_Kangel; mrpotatohead

Trump would go for it. He has sounded pretty open to the idea of Cruz as V.P. even in the last week or two.

Cruz has also not ruled it out. He’s very careful in his language, saying “he’s not interested in V.P.” but never saying he ruled it out.

Watching a documentary on CNN on Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, they sound a lot like Trump and Cruz...one guy is rough-around-the-edges, communicates at a lower class level, is more open to violent outbursts, the other is a guy who carefully plans things out, takes advantage of new technology in campaigning, and both are hated by the establishment and hate them back. Only difference is they never fought against each other. The Dems will have a field day making ads of clips of Trump and Cruz attacking each other if they ran on one ticket.


28 posted on 04/03/2016 9:56:43 PM PDT by JediJones (The younger presidential candidate has won the popular vote since '92. Vote younger. Vote Cruz. Win.)
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To: DrewsDad

Kasich is funded by the GOPe and Soros so I expect him to stay in the race.


29 posted on 04/03/2016 10:03:15 PM PDT by boycott (--s)
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If the GOP had any honor, they would have, long ago, pressured Kasich to get out and leave it to the two people with a mathematical chance at the nomination.

Rubio would have been pressured out earlier as well.

30 posted on 04/03/2016 11:54:24 PM PDT by Washi (Don't blame me. I voted for the conservative.)
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To: John Valentine

I’m not too impresed with you math there Mr. Quigley.

The fact of the matter is that both men will have roughly equal delegate counts by the time of the convention and Cruz has about a 50-50 chance of going into the convention with MORE pledged delegates than Trump, and WAAAAY more unpledged who will go to Cruz en mass on the second ballot.
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uh... No!
What I said.


31 posted on 04/04/2016 4:34:37 AM PDT by QuigleyDU
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To: John Valentine

PLus, Wisconsin is the last Cruz opportunity to pickup marginally big gain on Trump in delegates, then he gets crushed in the NE and Cali., guaranteed. Don’t believe for a minute GoPe is not looking at vote totals and house and senate seats they need to retain, no matter what you’re reading in the press about delegates. They know what it will mean if the clear winner by millions of real people(voters) is denied.

All though, I could be wrong they and Cruz supporters may be in favor of political suicide.


32 posted on 04/04/2016 4:45:17 AM PDT by QuigleyDU
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To: fireman15

I am hoping that the two campaigns are realizing that the first fight is against the GOPe.


33 posted on 04/04/2016 5:29:24 AM PDT by taxcontrol ( The GOPe treats the conservative base like slaves by taking their votes and refuses to pay)
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