Posted on 05/24/2016 12:49:36 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Washington State holds its Republican primary on Tuesday, and with one candidate left in the race, there's not too much drama about the outcome. But in a twist — and what would the 2016 race be without a twist? — 40 of Washington's 41 delegates selected Saturday to attend the Republican National Convention in July are Ted Cruz partisans. Cruz supporters outnumbered Donald Trump supporters at the state GOP convention in Pasco, and they were better organized, pushing through the Cruz slate of delegates over occasional protests from Trump backers, who noted repeatedly that Cruz is no longer in the race.
Among the Trump supporters who did not get elected a national delegate is Trump state campaign chairman Don Benton, a Washington State senator. Benton predicted that the Cruz delegates will come around to supporting Trump — in fact, ACCORDING TO STATE PARTY RULES, they have to VOTE FOR TRUMP at the convention, assuming Trump wins the primary on Tuesday. But the Republicans in Washington State are not yet unified, The Seattle Times reports, and several candidates for statewide office are either studiously not saying if they will support Trump, like gubernatorial candidate Bill Bryant, or saying they won't. "Do you think I enjoy this? Not supporting the nominee?" said Chris Vance, a GOP candidate for U.S. Senate. "It's unpleasant."
Huh?
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#scumbagcruz
And Ted will get crushed in the primary today making the activists look like fools.
There are two possibilities here. The lesser possibility is that Cruz is trying to steal the nomination from Trump. The more likely possibility is that Cruz is positioning himself as Plan B if somehow Trump does not obtain the nomination, simply as a contingency. In that case, he is doing the Trump-ers a favor, because if something does happen to Trump so that he doesn’t get the nomination, Cruz is a much better Plan B than Romney, Ryan, Kasich, or any other GOPe member who has bowed before the Altar of Obama.
That is how Ted and the GOPe work. However the delegates are required to vote for the winner on the first ballot.
A bunch of Lucifer’s minions acting like the moronic children they are pulled a juvenile stunt nothing to see here folks. They will all be forced to vote for Trump on the first ballot and there will be no second ballot.
Last minute desperate effort by the Cruz folks.
Cruz wants to be the center of attention at the convention. That’s what his continuing stealth campaign is all about.
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Maybe Ted Cruz really is a Double-Agent and working to get Hillary elected.
I guarantee you if Ted Cruz is the Nominee, Hillary and the DNC will directly question his Citizenship qualifications in a COURT, The Court will Disqualify him , Arrest and charge him with Fraud, and make a deal with Canada to Deport him afterwards. This has always been Hillary’s ace in the hole, which is why the Media pushed Cruz so hard over Trump.
Whatever Ted. It’s over man. You and your delusional followers need to go home.
The Washington Republican party is made up of a majority that are cowed and co-opted by the Green-Gay nature of the majority of the population in the state as a whole (It’s totally a Bernie state). Makes for a rather whipped and Stockholm Syndrome-d Republican Party (except for those from the eastern half of the state)...not too different I guess from the national Republican Party. They become elitist low-calorie socialists.
It doesn’t matter, Trump will win the vote of the people easily today and carry the Independents. And all those #NeverTrump Cruzies are going to be voting for Trump on the first ballot (delicious irony) and helping him along to his 1,400 or so first ballot votes.
Let’s see what happens at the end of the day.
Activist work and support their candidate. Cruz has a better grassroots organization in place.
Trump has not tried to organize to the lower levels in each state. That said Trump will have the
delegates needed to win on the first ballot at the convention. Thus Cruz can have his convention
speech and presence but the final show will be Trump.
“There are two possibilities here. The lesser possibility is that Cruz is trying to steal the nomination from Trump. The more likely possibility is that Cruz is positioning himself as Plan B if somehow Trump does not obtain the nomination, simply as a contingency. In that case, he is doing the Trump-ers a favor, because if something does happen to Trump so that he doesn’t get the nomination, Cruz is a much better Plan B than Romney, Ryan, Kasich, or any other GOPe member who has bowed before the Altar of Obama.”
There is a third possibility as well. It could be, that having been well-organized for months in advance within the Washington State GOP, Cruz people simply had overwhelming numbers to vote their slate in. With that advantage, why wouldn’t they want to send their own people to Cleveland?
And yeah, it doesn’t matter on the first ballot anyway because they’re all bound. I think the Cruz people are more concerned about the Rules and Platform committees and having a strong say in what comes out of those. Don’t forget also that only the POTUS candidate is bound on that first ballot. The VP candidate is not — meaning if, for example, in excess of 1237 delegates were Cruz partisans, they would have final veto power on any VP nominee put forward.
Cruz needs to stand down. This continued BS from him and his supporters is beyond upsetting. Lyn’ Cruz needs to quit, be gone.
Cruz is a much better Plan B than Romney, Ryan, Kasich, or any other GOPe member who has bowed before the Altar of Obama.
Lol. cRuz has lowered himself to Romney/Ryan level. He’s all in with the establishment.
No thanks, to anything cRuz.
Indeed. I voted for him in the VA primary on Super Tuesday and now its time to close ranks. He lost and they need to get over it. They are really pissing off the rank and file mainstream.
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