Posted on 04/27/2016 10:41:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
Good Wednesday morning. Donald Trump said last night after winning each of the five Acela Primary states by 29 or more points: “As far as I am concerned, it’s over. ... I consider myself the presumptive nominee – absolutely.” He’s right about both. To the pundits who’ll try to infuse next week’s Indiana primary – Ted Cruz’s last stand -- with melodrama and cosmic significance: Good luck. Trump won Connecticut by 29, Delaware by 40, Maryland by 31, Pennsylvania by 35, Rhode Island by 39. I think the voters are trying to tell us something.
--A top Republican insider laments that even with conservative calculations, he now projects Trump will cross the magic number of 1,237 delegates to win on the first ballot at the Cleveland convention: “The dominoes are falling, and you can’t stop them. ... Kasich staying in the race was an in-kind contribution to Trump. It blocked Cruz from ever getting his one-on-one shot.”
--OLD TRUMP was back for last night’s victory speech (gloating, off the cuff), and Corey Lewandowski was more prominent than Paul Manafort in the camera shot. Trump will have a teleprompter for today’s foreign-policy speech at noon in D.C. A speechwriter supplied a text, but MSNBC reports that Trump “rewrote it.”
--Kevin Madden tells us that for two months, the Trump wave has divided establishment Republicans into two camps: RESIGNATION and RESISTANCE camps – and RESIGNATION is winning. Madden says the too-little, too-late Never Trump movement “only changed the atmospherics, never the fundamentals.” He said it became “pure fantasy” to think you could derail Trump with the momentum he was picking up, going back to at least Nevada on Feb. 23.
I know I will get lectures on how the primary and convention nominating system "really" works but the populist support is irrefutable
Trump is the nominee. Let’s focus on getting Ryan and McCain out of there, and keeping our majority. Trump brings enthusiastic voters, and people downticket can ride the Trump wave, if we are positioned for it.
” nominating system “really” works “
The system is elitist mob rule.
I think the voters are trying to tell us something.”
...bwahahahahaha. Ya think?
As Mike Allen wrote: I think the voters are trying to tell us something.
If the GOPe don’t listen, they will pay dearly come November.......................
Which puts the Congressional candidates and Senate candidates in a pickle. Do they support Trump or the GOPe?......................
“If the GOPe don’t listen, they will pay dearly come November............…..”
And they’re fine with that. They just want to lose THEIR way.
Until they change their tune to "I now know the voters are trying to tell us something.", they'll never understand how the RNC has failed us time and time again. To the RNC - it's a backlash against your stupid actions, idiots!
You might want to quote me in context. I certainly never said the ”nominating system “really” works “ in my post.
There have been articles about GOPe types skipping the convention if Trump wins. This would be the end of the GOPe if that happened. Trump and his team would become the defacto establishment, and the GOPe would be on the outside looking in.
This election will mark the end of the two political party system. Not on paper, it will linger for a few election cycles, but the effective party system is over. I believe that the Democrat “Party” and the media will be the big winners of this development. The Republican Party and the conservative voters will be the big losers. Other losers are state and local influence on political power and elections. The voters will no longer have a local political apparatus through which they can have some effect on the political process.
What we will see in the national media in ascendancy. They will pick the candidates and their chosen lackey will be elected across the board. Voters will participate in sham elections, but the outcome will be predetermined because the media will have manipulated the electorate like some nationwide reality show. Most people are already doing what the media wants them to do and they don’t even know it.
And how many stories were published about the inevitable contested convention...?
Dude! did you sleep through the McCain and Romney presidential runs???
His declared position as “the presumptive nominee” sets the media narrative - something he has done time and time again.
That ability is what will make him president.
Much less ally myself to Beck, I would be doing everything I could to distance myself from him. I don't know what got into Cruz to make him ally himself with Beck, who went right off the rails sometime ago.
One wonders at what point Ted Cruz will man up and put his support behind Trump.
The twelfth of never.......................
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