Posted on 03/28/2016 9:47:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Oh, how cruel the game of politics can be — especially if you don’t have a ground game.
On Sunday night, Donald Trump tweeted, “Just to show you how unfair Republican primary politics can be, I won the State of Louisiana and get less delegates than Cruz — lawsuit coming.”
It’s true: On March 5, Mr. Trump took 41.4 percent of the Louisiana vote compared with Ted Cruz’s 37.8 percent and Marco Rubio’s 11.2 percent. Mr. Trump was awarded 18 delegates, so was Mr. Cruz, and Mr. Rubio got 5 delegates.
So what happened between March 5 and Sunday? Mr. Rubio dropped out, and under Louisiana delegate rules, those pledged to Mr. Rubio became unbound — meaning they were free to choose whatever remaining candidates were left in the race. Looks like they chose Mr. Cruz.
Mr. Cruz knows that in order to secure the number of delegates he needs to take the Republican nomination, he’s going to have to woo over Mr. Rubio’s supporters — and although he’s fallen short of an endorsement from the senator from Florida (as of now), many in the establishment lane are seeing Mr. Cruz as the only way to stop Mr. Trump.
Not to mention the grunt work Mr. Cruz’s team is putting in.
Mr. Cruz’s campaign has worked a state-by-state delegate strategy — both encouraging his supporters to run as delegates and by lobbying them to run and serve on various committees at the Republican National Convention.
As The Wall Street Journal noted last week: “Mr. Cruz’s supporters seized five of Louisiana’s six slots on the three powerful committees that will write the rules and platform at the Republican National Convention and mediate disputes over delegates’ eligibility this summer in Cleveland.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
What works for red-blooded conservative men who will support Donald Trump in the Republican primaries is unlikely to work in the general election where he is despised by 6 to 7 out of every 10 Americans.
The way to combat devious Democrats in an election season is not to descend into vulgarity and boorishness but to employ humor and satire in such a way that the guilty subject is skewered but the author himself is not despised.
Everything and all those in politics, most business’ and ‘what have you’ just follow the money and power these days— probably always the same but it is the driving force now-—perhaps we did not pay enough attention to what went on in our country but it would seem to be ‘too late’ to turn around-—with more Muslims being allowed in by our Muslim-in-chief, it bodes ill for our future-—all great nations in history self destruct in time-—
Not in actuality. The convention sets the rules for the convention. The standing rules committee proposes and adopts a set of rules (”more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules”) for the next primary, which the convention can amend any way they see fit.
If your vote truly mattered, do you think the ruling class would let you?
You should run for high office since you have all the answers——
I won’t!
Maybe the rules, but Cruz has no awesome ground game. GOPe ground game! Bushes & Mitt threw support to Cruz, it became the oligarchys ground game.
Cruz is just a dick.
I agree. Time over time the GOPe proves its liberal. I’m still waiting for that Supreme Court nominee to get voted in this summer. Probably done July 3rd when nobody is paying attention.
Is that why he seems to be one step ahead of Trump...???
Louisiana is down the page in the March 5th section.
Trump 18 / Cruz 18 / Rubo Zip
41, 38, and 11%...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_2016
Which begs the question. Is Trump really that stupid? His supporters claim he is brilliant. So that would mean that he is deliberately turning off more and more voters via his boorish vulgarity, defamation and bullying. What could possibly motivate him to do that? His real agenda, perhaps?
Furthermore, Cruz is totally betraying his early supporters. He promised them he would break the Washington cartel. But, it seems, he has reneged on this promise and is now a member in good standing of the Washington cartel.
Ha! The other shoe will drop. The democrats have not even begun to pick Cruz apart. If Trump is denied the nomination by the establishment, I shall enjoy watching the decent, Glen Becks breakdown, and letting Cruz supporters know that they betrayed our country.
Not me. I say, if Ted's guilty of the accusations then the hell with him.
What do you think about that, vanderkook?
Keep that March 5th date in mind. It is going to have meaning.
Yes. He should have disavowed the support of Bush, Mitt et al. They are the oligarchy.
Cruz position on many issues is closer to Trumps position than to the “Washington cabal” as he named it.
But Cruz lusts...
Nobody is robbing delegates from Trump. No one is buying delegates. Trump failed to follow the process in place to elect delegates for the national convention.
What Trump did in Louisianna is akin to filing a lawsuit and then ignoring the rules of procedure that govern (civil) lawsuits within the judical system.
Ignorant of the legal process, Trump essentially wants to skip the trial and go straight to closing arguments in front of a jury that he had no interest in picking.
All because Cruz outsmarted Trump in Louisiana...???
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