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Will Wisconsin Be Trump's Waterloo?
RealClearPolitics ^ | April 3, 2016 | Salena Zito

Posted on 04/03/2016 6:12:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

What rich irony, if one of the most calculating politicians in modern American politics miscalculated the will of Wisconsin's Republican voters, something Democrats have done repeatedly since 2010.

If Donald Trump loses Wisconsin's primary on Tuesday, it will not be because of the uproar over his comments about Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi. Or his reaction to the confrontation with a female reporter that led to an arrest summons for his campaign manager. Or even his suggestion that women who get abortions should face “some form of punishment” if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

Instead, it will be his misunderstanding of Badger State conservatives' deep relationship with their elected officials, one that does not take well to outsiders trying to divide them from the people they worked so hard to put and keep in office.

Trump ran into a buzz saw in Wisconsin last week when he went on the local talk-radio circuit, which is staunchly conservative and widely influences Republican voters — very different from national talk-show hosts who don't ask him tough questions and lean toward rabble-rousing rather than ideological discussions....

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Wisconsin; Campaign News
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To: freespirit2012

LOL...


161 posted on 04/03/2016 8:16:23 PM PDT by samantha (keep up the fight....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And if he wins it will because Wisconsin jobs have gone overseas and Trump is the only one talking about bringing them back by ending the programs that caused them to leave. No other candidate can say it because their campaign donors won’t let them.


162 posted on 04/03/2016 8:18:10 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: Hoodat

Trump is not a democrat...He is not a republican...He is not a conservative and he is not a liberal... Trump is a successful businessman and as such, he has seen the country going down the tubes...To help his businesses, he knows he has to help America...This country has never seen a situation that it is now in... It is going to take MORE than a republican or democrat to save us...Trump is really apolitical...He is NOT a “politician”...

If a “professional politician” is elected, things aren’t going to change for the better... They will just get worse....


163 posted on 04/03/2016 8:19:15 PM PDT by JBW1949
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To: freespirit2012
Cruz will be mathematically eliminated when Trump gets 1237 delegates, and not before.

No— I was talking about Cruz being mathematically eliminated from being able to reach 1237-— Like Cruz has said about Kasich and how he should drop out, because he can’t reach 1237. If you think candidates should not drop out before they know if Trump will reach 1237 then Jeb and Pataki and Gilmore should have stuck around too..

No, I WAS talking about Cruz being mathematically eliminated. As I said it would be if and when Trump get 1237 delegates. That would be either before or at the convention.

Until that happens, he is not mathematically eliminated.

164 posted on 04/03/2016 8:20:32 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: VerySadAmerican
Anti-sovereignty, pro GLOBALIST, pro-open borders, anti-patriotism IS the enemy, and these things define Cruz and everyone else in every race as long as we can remember UNTIL TRUMP.

GLOBALISM vs PATRIOTISM.

North American Union, TPA, TPP, open borders, unlimited immigration, weak military,surrendering sovereignty through treaties known as "trade agreements" (which Congress has ZERO input on since Cruz passed TPA)....That's who we're fighting.

Borders, security, smash Obamacare, the UN and the WTO and write trade agreements ONE ON ONE with nations, keep jobs here, keep immigrants taking our jobs OUT (unlike Cruz who wants all US jobs to go to foreign visa holders e.g. 500,000 new H1B visas---build a wall, stand up for PATRIOTISM. This is Trump.

It's time for EVERY FREEPER to TAKE SIDES. You can go with the list of 20 liberal women (Pavlich, etc etc.) or the 20 closeted liberal men from NR (Beck etc) OR you can side with AMERICA and support the only non-professional career bloodsucking politician producing nothing and sucking at the tit and the trough of the US taxpayer. You can choose TRUMP.

165 posted on 04/03/2016 8:20:41 PM PDT by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Do you folks even see the way you talk to others just because they back a different candidate? Would you come up to me in public and say things like that? Is that how you were brought up?

I don't share 2ndDivisonVet candidate BUT i do agree with him that we have long ago ceased to have political discourse on this forum. It has been replaced with palpable anger. We can be passionate about our candidates WITHOUT the personal attacks.

166 posted on 04/03/2016 8:21:08 PM PDT by teletech
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To: Hoodat

That’s because you are uneducated, don’t understand the dynamics of that situation, and hate Trump.


167 posted on 04/03/2016 8:21:32 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: FreeReign

If he does not get 1237 then he is mathematically eliminated— like Cruz says now about Kasich...


168 posted on 04/03/2016 8:23:05 PM PDT by freespirit2012
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To: FreeReign
And yours wasn't an argument, but merely an unsupported opinion.

No, not at all.

169 posted on 04/03/2016 8:26:37 PM PDT by tinyowl (A equals A)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I was brought up far better than you were; besides the fact that I was TAUGHT politics and history well and knew pols and the back room guys even as a little kid.

Oh for crying out loud, get off your high horse, pretending that your hands are just oh SO damned clean and that your passive/agressive and even outright nastiness doesn't engender replies in kind! And I haven't ever been "rude" to you.

Of course I'd say what I post here, to your face and quite a bit more.

170 posted on 04/03/2016 8:27:01 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: FreeReign

Not now that he has an expert hand helping him with the delegate count.
It is doubtful that Cruz will even get 20% of the vote in the N.Y. primary, so put that in your pipe and smoke it!


171 posted on 04/03/2016 8:29:40 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: altura
Don't buy anything for Cruz parties...YOU won't be invited to them and neither do YOU know just to WHOM you are replying here.

Has it EVER crossed your mind, that perhaps, just perhaps, some people who post here, might travel in circles that would include people in Trump's circle?

172 posted on 04/03/2016 8:32:45 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: gg188

all I can say is BTTT


173 posted on 04/03/2016 8:32:53 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Cruz voters: Wake up! Trump is our only chance of stopping the gopE. If not now, never!)
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To: FreeReign
Nonsense!

There is absolutely NO WAY that Cruz gets 1237 prior to the Convention; however, Trump shall.

174 posted on 04/03/2016 8:35:08 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

Salena is a FReeper, by-the-way.


What is her screen name?


175 posted on 04/03/2016 8:35:56 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism!!)
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To: bushwon

She hasn’t posted here in over THREE years and supposedly she uses her real name as her nic.


176 posted on 04/03/2016 8:36:43 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: bushwon

Salena Zito


177 posted on 04/03/2016 8:37:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: FreeReign
Have you followed what Cruz has been saying about Kasich? Cruz said that Cruz is the ONLY one that is mathematically capable of winning the election besides Trump. So Kasich should drop out immediately...

"It's mathematically impossible for them (Kasich and Rubio) to win, so I say, 'Come and join us, we welcome you with open arms,'" Cruz said.

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/ted-cruz-mathematically-impossible-rubio-kasich/2016/03/14/id/719073/
178 posted on 04/03/2016 8:37:19 PM PDT by freespirit2012
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To: FreeReign
Voters are rejecting GOPe shenanigans. And hopefully the delegates will have to face the actual voters just like the politicians do in order for the delegates to hear loud and clear, we do NOT want you to do the bidding of Bush or Romney. They live in the same neighborhoods and should vote at the convention according to the votes of the people they represent which should result in Trump winning at the convention no matter what.
179 posted on 04/03/2016 8:37:55 PM PDT by E20erer (#AlwaysTrump)
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To: WildHighlander57

http://www.eutimes.net/2016/04/exposed-fox-releases-fake-wisconsin-poll-showing-trump-10-below-cruz/


180 posted on 04/03/2016 8:38:37 PM PDT by sleddogs
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