Posted on 04/19/2016 11:37:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
A lot of very smart political people predict that Donald Trump will arrive at the Republican convention in Cleveland shy of the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination on the first ballot.
Here’s why I don’t think that’s the way it will play out.
To begin with, you’ve got to understand Trump’s mentality—and I believe I understand him better than most people outside his immediate family.
I’ve known Trump for 35 years, met with him on numerous occasions, talked to him on the phone countless times, traveled with him, and written two lengthy magazine cover stories about him.
One cover story appeared in the December 2013 issue of Vanity Fair and was titled “Trump Family Values.”
In that story, I reported that the once nearly bankrupt Trump had figured out a way to make a comeback and become a billionaire.
The second cover story appeared in the August 2012 issue of Newsmax magazine and was titled “The Trump Effect.”
In that story, I explained Trump’s appeal to a vast swath of Americans—“blue-collar and low-level white collar workers who say that they’re tired of hearing the same old political falderal from career politicians.”
What I learned from reporting these stories is that Trump always has an ace in the hole.
In the case of the Republican convention, where he may arrive 50 to 100 votes short of the necessary 1,237, his ace will be the 136 unbound delegates.
Trump has already identified each one of these 136 free-to-vote-for-whomever-they-please delegates and has begun to woo them.
And, let’s not forget, he is the master of the deal.
This will be his biggest deal, and his skills and experience will certainly be put to the test.
First ballot win, here we come!
Politics is full of ace holes.
If Cruz steals it in the end, he will be an illegitimate candidate. he is not a Natural Born Citizen. I hope you’re right about Trump
Plan B!
I guess this leaves you “speechless” Kaslin! The idea that Trump’s smarter than Cruze, must be a bitter pill for you to swallow! Cruze is like a fart in a whirlwind!
Ha! I knew there was a plan!!!
Master of the Scottish Deal???
I don’t think “steal” means what you think it means.
Bkmk
The silence of Cruz and his Natural Born status is deafening.
In a whirlwind you would not smell the release. Cruz is not like a fart in a whirlwind, he has a distinct odor to him, one of pandering hypocrisy.
Let me say something the Rush and O'Reilly harp on. They keep saying that Trump bringing back companies from foreign countries won't help the uneducated. What company in the world can operate without the uneducated, intermediate educated, and the highly skilled. There is a place for all classification of workers. Only the ignorant that have never had a business knows that the high skilled will never man the broom closet. And no company can operate without the broom closet.
Damn, how pathetic dumb some ars holes are.
I’m sorry. Did you say something about hypocrisy?
>BTW Who is Cruze, you ignorant Trump cultist?
The e gets added when you sell your soul to the GOPe.
If Cruz wooed unbound delegates that would be cheating, what is it when Trump does it? Closing the deal? How quaint.
Trump is the only chance to stop China's deinudustrialization of the USA and illegals. He's the only one even mentioning China. China makes a lot of things now. Trump doesn't get elected then everything in the USA is wiped out .And we wonder why the trade deficit with China is in the hundreds of billions,, the Gope likes that . Trump will stop China and the world establishment
By steal I mean what Wendel Wilkie did in 1940
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