Posted on 04/01/2016 5:03:48 AM PDT by Bratch
Townhall reporter Guy Benson today admitted the Cruz campaign is stealing Trump delegates in states that Trump won.
The Ted Cruz campaign is running Cruz supporters as Trump delegates in states that Trump won. That way they can steal the nomination from Trump in Cleveland although they’ve only won a fraction of the states Trump has won.
Guy Benson: This has been percolating for several months. He has a very sharp legal team that know the rules inside and out in a way the Trump campaign clearly does not. It’s not just Louisiana. And it’s not just finagling to just get Rubio delegates or unbound delegates. What they’re also doing is getting people elected as Trump delegates who are not, in fact, Trump loyalists. So they would be bound to Donald Trump on the first ballot only. After which, although they are technically Trump delegates, they’ve been sort of put in place to jump.
And these are the same people who call Trump supporters ‘morons’ one day and beg them to support Ted Cruz the next.
CONFIRMED: Cruz Camp Stealing Trump Delegates at State Level
No one has won yet. But the insistence on a loser Trump despite all evidence of him being an electoral disaster is indeed idiotic.
You don’t see it now, but you will sooner or later.
Trump can’t win the general. Cruz has a better chance.
The winner is the person who gets a majority of delegates.
If Mr. Trump winds up with 1100 delegates that means most of the delegates elected were not for him.
If that were true then Cruz would win his primary. Which he can’t.
They are then going to come up with all sorts of small print that justifies them nominating one of their cuckservative POS weasels.
The turnout on their side will be the lowest recorded in a long, long, long time. They will lose, nearly, all 50 states.
But, they won't care because their role in this is to line their pockets, help usher in the global gov't and put their families behind really fortified walls and gates while we have to live and try to survive in this mess.
You are correct. Which means they can then give the nomination to Cruz in the second vote, two guys clap and Hillary becomes the President.
That's why Trump has the lead he does in delegates, in popular votes, in endorsements (well, maybe not so much in endorsements, but look at his opponents in this regard).
When America votes for President, they are not looking at how personable the candidate is (that may get his a degree of recognition, but won't win the election for him) - they want to know how he's going to run the country.
With Bernie, well, he's a communist. He's already said so. No further analysis necessary.
With Hillary, the Socialist who is pretending not to be, we see what is an incredibly weak candidate. She'll be more than adequately exposed in the General.
On the Republican side, Cruz has his voting record and past shenanigans to contend with, not to mention his sleaze factor. We'll see how that plays out.
Kasich? He tallies in 3rd place all the time because that's precisely where he belongs. He has a following, albeit quite small. We'll have to see how history judges this candidacy this time around.
And Trump? We are entering the last leg of the primary season, and he is head and shoulders the choice of the electorate to the present. Apparently people deem him the one with the best, most believable answers for this primary season. The one most likely to get the job done, and done right. The most Presidential.
The other are, and have been, chasing him, without much success. In spite of baby missteps in the last couple of days, the momentum is still with Trump. He may (I say may) have a hiccup in Wisconsin, but New York will straighten that out.
As we move inexorably towards June, time is quickly running out for the also-rans, and both Trump and the also-rans know this.
Will Trump get the 1237 needed? Who knows?
But he's better placed than any one else!
CA....
No! That means they keep voting until some one hits 1237.....that’s the way it will happen...if you or I don’t like it ...tough!!!
Ah - the Reagan candidacy analysis! How entertaining!
CA....
Ok that’s fine, then if it’s Cruz that get’s to 1237 the party then gets to explain that after 7 Generations of teaching Americans the value of one-man-one-vote and that you must be born in The United States to be the President of the United States, they have decided to give the nomination to someone born in Canada that had less votes than the other guy.
See how that works out for you.
That's been the rule for a long time. That's not stealing. That's called organization. If Donald Trump isn't organizing delegates, then his campaign is not doing its job if there is no majority. If his organization is a failure, then he is a failure and has shown that he is incapable of winning a general election.
That's not stealing, and no temper tantrums from Trumpbots, RINOs, and lazy people who don't do campaign work outside of bitching online changes that.
Did you mean throw?
CA....
If Cruz gets to 1237 then he will have more delegates than Trump....period. Every thing else in you post is pure BS!!!
Yes!!!
Then parade your victory around to the sound of deafening boos. It’s what you’re working towards.
You do realize that primaries and general elections are different things?
Just so long as it’s a victory....I think that is Trumps motto isn’t it!!!
Mr. Trump has the best chance to win the general, and that is not an opinion from overzealous supporters. He has a broad base of support that Cruz could not hope to match, and that is not wishful thinking, but an absolute fact.
As for a “majority” of delegates, in my scenario that I posted above, stealing the nomination from Mr. Trump with those numbers I posted would be an outrageous act that will guarantee the end of the Republican party, insure a write in run for Mr. Trump, and insure the dem candidate will win the general. You can also kiss the Senate and the House goodbye, although the house may take another 2 years to flip.
You may not want to agree or believe it, but to look at it from a realistic and logical perspective, what I have stated is most likely what will happen if you get your way.
A rump of a rump votes for Trump. The numbers in a general election are much, much larger than voters in a primary.
This is just basic knowledge.
As is the fact that most voters vote based on hunches and gut feelings. And Trump has high unfavorabilty ratings with every demographic.
Not going to win. This is why an energetic plurality is not the way to pick a candidate.
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