Here’s more:
http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/heres-why-trumps-everything-is-rigged-talk-is-so-alarming/
Some see an equivalence between Trump, who collected more delegates than his vote...with Ted Cruz, who collected all the delegates (Colorado) with no vote at all.
But Cruz is #1 in states that can’t vote like CO and WY
Why should they give you the simple courtesy of noticing you exist?
"Looking forward to the rationalizations from Stormtrumpers for this one."
Yeah, we know. Winning primaries is favoritism, saying something that upsets your cat is a micro-aggression, and White Folks are the oppressor.
Must be some scorching hot blow-back from the "smart" Colorado stuff Cruz was stupid enough to brag about instead of quietly sneaking away from. Otherwise the Cruz shills wouldn't be flopping around like fish and talking out of both sides of their mouths about how favoritism for Cruz is a sign of how clever and smart Teddy boy is but anything that works in the favor of he who got the most votes is favoritism.
Typical Cruz, though, bragging about his victory and whining, spinning, whining, spinning, the usual lawyer stuff we've come to know and love from the GOP insider lawyer corps.
That’s crazy.
The process of gaining delegates has nothing to do with Trump. It was in place before Trump ever decided to run.
However, the process of buying unaffiliated delegates for the first round or for the second round is shameful.
Even if the rules say that delegates can be bought, that is a violation of free and fair elections.
If delegates are bound the first round and not bound in subsequent rounds, that is fine, but that is then above board integrity for that system.
I have heard that each subsequent round a candidate begins with fewer bound delegates. Someone else told me that is incorrect and all are unbound after the first round. I don’t really know.
I do know that at the initial vote, the paramount concern should be reflecting the intent of the voters when they voted. That means every won delegate should be under a requirement to vote for the candidate for whom they were selected, whether that candidate has dropped out or not.
This year’s election should bring reform to the selection process of both Republicans and Democrats. The rules for both are a mess.
Unfair! Just like the Electoral College! /sarc
I am amazed that when Trump does something that should disappoint his followers, such as not having a team in Colorado to try an win delegates, their first response is, “Steal”, “Rigged”, “Unfair”, etc. It seems to be the pattern whenever Trump loses any given state he has lost in.
Since the Colorado process was not a secret, did ANY of the 17 candidates who were running as the Republican nominee complain about it at the time it was announced?
I didn’t think so.
Frankly, the loss in Colorado is Trumps fault, his organizations fault, AND his supporters fault for not bothering to get involved.
Getting involved in these things is relatively easy. In most cases, you just have to show up.
Having your candidate fly in for big rallies, and getting a lot of free coverage by saying crazy stuff, isn’t even enough to win a city council seat, let alone, when the presidency.
You want your candidate to succeed? Get involved.
Don’t sit back and rail “Unfair”.
When you do that, you sound just like a Gimme-dat Democrat.
“We’ve already been disenfranchised,” Trump said. “Because if you think about it, the economy is rigged, the banking system is rigged, there’s a lot of things that are rigged in this world of ours, and that’s why a lot of you haven’t had an effective wage increase in 20 years.”
That is an almost word-for-word copy of what socialist Democrat Bernie Sanders has been saying.
“Millions of Americans are giving up on the political process. And they’re giving up on the political process because they understand the economy is rigged. They are working longer hours for low wages,” is what Sanders said at a February Democratic debate.
Indeed, the claim that the economy is rigged has become a staple of the increasingly leftist Democratic Party.
President Obama says “the system (is) rigged for those at the top, and rigged against the middle class.” So does Hillary Clinton.
Far-left Sen. Elizabeth Warren got the phrase into the recent political lexicon when she exclaimed in 2012: “People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part — they’re right. The system is rigged.”
Sanders and Co. argue that the economy is rigged because they want to expand the size and scope of government to “un-rig” it — through still more intrusive regulations and higher taxes.
So why is Trump mimicking this language?
Saying everything is rigged does nothing but stoke envy and animosity. It provides a ready excuse for those who are lazy or irresponsible. It suggests that rich people — like Trump himself — got ahead only because they gamed the system. Inevitably, it leads to calls for more government intervention. And, it is untrue.
People aren’t suffering because the economy is “rigged.” They’re suffering because the free market is being smothered by Washington regulations, mandates, taxes and interference.
It would be nice if one of the leading presidential candidates understood this distinction.
He’s glossing over the fact that yes, pre-campaign rules set favored a insurgent candidate like Trump — but that was unintended consequences because they were trying to make it easier for one of the GOPe candidates. Some say Bush, but I say Walker.
Once Trump took hold, it’s been nothing but machinations to change what they can. Furthermore any build in Advantage Trump strategically found ended on Super Tuesday. Just as planned.
It's all by design. He isn't being cheated, but claiming he is winds up the Trump supporters who have no desire to see what is really going on here. He has 37% of the vote but 45% of the delegates yet he complains about things being unfair.
The rules don’t award delegates based on proportion of the vote
Cruz is all about gaming the rules
So what is your point?
Wanna whine that the rules aren’t fair?
Get in line then
Cruz just isn’t that popular with GOP voters. He consistently fails to break the low to mid twenties in polls. You cannot win your party’s nomination with that level of support much less a general election.
If Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio had Trump’s delegate count right now the party would already have forced Cruz and Kasich out of the race be coronating Jeb or Marco as the presumptive nominee. Trump is having to do it the hard way.