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Donald Trump is still struggling to install friendly delegates
Washington Post ^ | Apr. 18, 2016 | Ed O'Keefe

Posted on 04/18/2016 5:47:29 PM PDT by Innovative

Weeks after his campaign vowed to turn things around in the hunt for delegates, GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump is still struggling to ensure that supporters will be there to vote for him at the Republican convention in Cleveland.

Trump is expected to easily win the New York primary on Tuesday and most if not all of the 95 delegates at stake, ensuring that the businessman will remain well ahead of Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016gopprimary; convention; delegates; gope; nobodylikestrump; ny2016; trump
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1 posted on 04/18/2016 5:47:29 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

I promise not to laugh.


2 posted on 04/18/2016 5:50:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet ("Too dangerous to be allowed to post here." ~GGpaX4DumpedTea)
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To: Innovative

Trump’s at 756 212 delegates ahead of Cruz right now.

https://www.gop.com/official-2016-gop-delegate-count/


3 posted on 04/18/2016 5:52:08 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trumpy can’t find friends in the republican party? Sheesh... who knew liberal rinos, or out and out democrats who voted for Trumpy couldn’t get placed as delegates to the republican convention?


4 posted on 04/18/2016 5:52:51 PM PDT by kjam22 (America need forgiveness from God..... even if Donald Trump doesn't)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump will crush scruz and the GOPe. I am now certain that even they know it!!! Then on to Crooked Hillary!!


5 posted on 04/18/2016 5:54:16 PM PDT by WENDLE (Remember Colorado)
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To: Innovative
And he's on track to picking up 400 more delegates in th enext two weeks which will put him at 1156;










6 posted on 04/18/2016 5:54:54 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

MANAFORT


7 posted on 04/18/2016 5:55:42 PM PDT by COUNTrecount (Race Baiting...... "It's What's For Breakfast")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To: jamese777
"...verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen."

Those are two VERY different things! Dr. Fukino should stick to medicine and not dabble in constitutional law. I don't care if he was born in the Lincoln bedroom! If Barack Hussein Mohammed Obama, Senior (A British subject from Kenya) is Mr. Obama's father, there is no way he is a natural-born citizen!! Native-born, perhaps, but that's not what the constitution calls for.

20 posted on 05/12/2010 1:03:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Don't care if he was born in a manger on July 4th! A "Natural Born" citizen requires two US parents!)
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8 posted on 04/18/2016 5:55:46 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: Innovative

Good article.


9 posted on 04/18/2016 5:56:32 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: Innovative

No mystery. The corrupt GOP wants to make sure no one reaches 1237. Then they’ll have a much easier time installing one of their own.


10 posted on 04/18/2016 5:59:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Innovative

Trump has really done it this time! It’s all over for him now!


11 posted on 04/18/2016 5:59:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
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To: dynoman; 2ndDivisionVet
Ouch!

I really don't think 2DV is a hypocrite. I think his position on what constitutes an NBC has evolved.

I've asked him about that, but he's never deigned to respond.

I was curious, more than anything else. Thinks like this raise questions, so I ask them.

Don't understand what the big deal is if someone has changed their position on an issue. It seems reasonable that they'd be able to offer a brief explanation.

I don't know, maybe I've missed the explanation. In that case, a link would suffice.

In any event, Ted Cruz has lost. He will have been mathematically eliminated after the next Tuesday or two. His only hope was to get the nomination at a contested GOP convention, which would irreparably splinter the party, and guarantee a GOP defeat in November.

Simply put, that's not going to happen. Not even the crooked GOPe is that stupid.

Vote Trump

12 posted on 04/18/2016 6:01:49 PM PDT by sargon (No king but Christ!)
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[Pennsylvania] Delegates for Trump : Know Your Trump Delegates
13 posted on 04/18/2016 6:02:01 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: Innovative
More shi! from the Washington Post.
14 posted on 04/18/2016 6:04:47 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: dynoman
C'mon, stop posting that. There's no way Trump can pick up 400 delegates in next two weeks even if he won every single one up for grabs.

And I say that as a Trump supporter who believes he will get to 1237. A more realistic scenario is that Trump gets 200 delegates over next two weeks (not including the 54 from PA that will be unbound).

Here's how I see it for next two weeks:

New York - 95 (of 95)
Connecticut - 25 (of 28)
Delaware = 16 (of 16)
Maryland = 32 (of 38)
Rhode Island = 19 (of 19)
Pennsylvania = 17 (of 17) - remaining 54 will be unbound

That will be 204 delegates bringing Trump to 960.

15 posted on 04/18/2016 6:06:16 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Make sure you log in tomorrow night. Gonna be a whole lot of laughing at your expense. Also, to remind everyone, you said Obama was ineligible because his father was Kenyan.


16 posted on 04/18/2016 6:08:19 PM PDT by Cruzodiac2016
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He is fighting the GOP machine. That my folks is an uphill battle against those who make the rules. GO TRUMP GO


17 posted on 04/18/2016 6:37:04 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: dynoman
Trump’s at 756 212 delegates ahead of Cruz right now.

Soon, you can add another 90 to 95 delegates by the end of tomorrow to Trump's total.

18 posted on 04/18/2016 6:44:34 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Innovative

Eventually, someone somewhere has to do something on the ground for Trump.

You don’t get to win the nomination if nobody shows up to do work.


19 posted on 04/18/2016 6:55:28 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (I'm sick of "Trump this" and "Cruz that". Grow up.)
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To: Innovative

His delegate strategy is simple. Free Trump wine, free Trump water, free Trump magazine subscriptions, free Trump steaks, free tuition at Trump University, free rooms at Trump hotels, free rides on Trump Air, free Chips at Trump Casinos, free greens fees at Trump golf resorts .....


20 posted on 04/18/2016 7:24:30 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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