Posted on 04/10/2016 11:28:52 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
David Coonradt came to the Colorado state Republican convention as part of Ted Cruz's “persuasion team,” a squad of volunteers working to secure more delegates to propel Cruz to the party's presidential nomination.
He came ready to tout the Texas senator's gun-rights and antiabortion credentials, the most crucial information he had to impart appeared on the back of his neon orange Tshirt.
“The official Ted Cruz slate,” the shirt blared, with the names of 13 prospective delegates below.
More than 600 people were vying Saturday for 13 delegate slots for the Republican National Convention in July. The Cruz campaign wanted to ensure these loyal 13 secured those spots. Turning their volunteers into walking billboards was just one way to do so.
Donald Trump has won more votes and carried more states than any Republican. Still, he stands a fair chance of losing the GOP nomination because up to now he largely ignored one of the most rudimentary aspects of a presidential run: securing loyal delegates
The Cruz campaign has trounced Trump in those battles, building on work to identify and organize supporters that Cruz began months ago. Those successes are improving Cruz's odds of emerging as the Republican nominee if Trump falls short of winning a majority of delegates.
“You have to think of this whole process as having two different tracks to it. There's the primary process — that's about winning and allocating delegates,” said Ben Ginsberg, a veteran Republican election lawyer.
But “the story that will really be more important to what happens in Cleveland,” he said, “is the delegate-selection track. They're two connected but separate skill sets.”
Belatedly, Trump has scrambled to remedy his campaign's shortcomings. Last week, he designated a longtime Washington insider, Paul J. Manafort, to oversee efforts to ensure that Trump has the 1,237
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Like Judge Jeanine said, the American Revolution was the last time the ruling class tried to shove their will on the American people.
Nonemof this would work for Cruzmif the rino goper vichy republican uniparty establishment was not approving of it and helping it to occur.
Translation: The Cruz campaign is completely disregarding the voting public.....because it can.
It’s beginning to look like Trump is too honest to win. He’s trying to run his campaign like he’s been doing business; aboveboard. I’ll vote for him because of that. If this nation can’t survive without underhanded, cheating, two faced politicians then I’ll just sit down like my Party leader has told me to do. Starve GOPe!
What happened to the King of the Deal makers? he seems to have turned into a pussy whining snowflake.
Poor baby trump.
I trust Cruz about as much as I would Trust a WEASEL.
The minute they lose, they start screaming ‘Liar! Cheater!'” Schroeder said. “These are the rules. It's not very complicated.”
Trump is too lazy to learn the processes and rules.
...every one is just Mean to him, poor thing.
“So the deal maker who will make supporters tired of winning can’t make by-the-rules delegate deals?”
Forgetting Trump for a moment, are you in truth proud of these delegate rules? I know the Democrats love to pervert every law they can and then self-righteously scream, “Rule of law! Rule of law!”
Are these delegate “rules” righteous or yet another manipulative perversion of some original intent? I’m honestly asking because they seem twisted to me. We’re out here wondering if voting really IS just theater. I work full time so I can’t “get involved in the process” at the magical delegate level.
I firmly believe that the Founders are going to stand up at the Judgment and testify against our generation. I guess then we’ll find out what the REAL rules are.
For the word “outmaneuvering” read “cheating.”
Hey, this is politics. It is a rough road and a hot kitchen. Best to keep ones distance if easily given to offense.
I have no opinion one way or another about any activity you bring to light which is not actually occurring. Far as I can see, this is the usual delegate hunt we have had every four years, and particularly in close races, since Abraham Lincoln’s time. Are you uncomfortable with that?
Glad you have such a high opinion of the electorate in such states. How charming.
Trump won Michigan. Yet, because of Cruz and his alliance with the GOPe, Trump had to defend his delegates from marauding lying Canadians.
If you know ANYTHING about state parties across the land, in most cases, Ted Cruz people are FAR from being “Party Insiders.” Insiders only have him to support at this time in addition to Kasich. That’s the cost of emerging to co-front runner status. But to say they control Cruz lacks any understanding of the dynamics and players in this whole thing.
Let’s see the Trump Lawsuit then Monday morning if so much “corrupt election theft” is taking place. Oh that’s right. I forgot. One cannot sue an opposing party over one’s simple incompetence and organizational disorder.
Good luck on that one. I am sure your heart will be in the right place when you purchase a stake in the effort for Hillary to secure leftist Supreme Court justices to rule in tyranny for the rest of your natural life. A horrid scenenario a President Cruz would never countenance. All because of sour grapes over being outsmarted by the standing, fair rules.
All because I smell Mr.Trump as being a charlatan, phony and manipulator? Hmmm.
Take a look at Drudge regarding Colorado.
Ted has signed on lock stock and tackle with the GOPe.
Did we mean it when we said we wanted change, or not?
It may be a rough road, but it’s intended to elect to office candidates of the peoples’ choice, and there are rules in place to insure that happens.
When the most popular candidate is stripped of the protection of those rules because Washington insiders and professional pols don’t want to share power with someone not ‘in the system’ then the road to dictatorship is opened.
I don’t think anyone - even you - would want that, or the consequences that would ensue, both for the people of the United States and, just as importantly, for the remainder of the world which the US, like it or not, still leads.
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