Posted on 04/07/2016 4:33:06 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 04/07/2016 4:48:52 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Going to be a rough month for Cruz.
Check it out:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
Nope... it looks like the hands are washing one another again.
This seems despicable to me.
Me, too. He could be gracious, bow out, and concentrate on his future political career. Instead, he is doing everything he can to turn people against the clear favorite.
I used to think that I could support Cruz or Trump. Now, however, I'm seeing Cruz as just another establishment type. The establishment is killing this country.
That is my thinking. I think you are dead on. Trump has no chance in a third party unless he buys off libertarians ( easily bought with their goof ball as VP johnson) ) but Trump has renounced that. The key to reclaim this country and OUR party is to crush the oligarchy. They are so rancid and sickening. If we don’t we will never vote for another republican for even city counsel. They suck.
Actually, no, not at all the same thing.
Cruz wants folks to think that it’s just him fighting for himself, but he can’t guarantee this won’t get out of hand and turn into a GOPe engineered fiasco.
Ted is playing right into their hands, finally a person who can prevent Trump from changing this nation back to what it should be.
Not the same thing by a long shot. Folks don’t grasp this either.
I’m sorry that you dislike the prediction enough to feel the need to make a smart a$$ comment.
But I think you’ll see it proves to be pretty close to the end result.
Walker is oligarchy!! He will be crushed again!! He was run off by the conservatives and he will disappear politically in the near future. GP TRUMP!!
As some one has rightly said nobody can steal something from you that you never had to begin with.
Trump has won some beauty contests, all that gets him is a binding pledge that the delegates will vote for him on the first ballot (or the first second, or third maybe). The delegates don’t have to be certified Trumpazoids, they don’t even have to like Trump, they only need to vote for him as bound to their pledges. That’s it.
The physical delegates are normally selected via a parallel process that the Trump people have up to now largely overlooked. But Cruz, playing a much deeper game than Trump, has not failed to do his homework, and has been getting his people on the state slates very effectively.
Trump is playing an amateur’s game; Cruz the professional.
Kasich has publicly stated- No deal with Trump.
Not a likely scenario...
Great point. You can count on that happening from here on out if the leader isn't "chosen" by the establishment, they will simply nullify the voters.
The establishment is fomenting hatred against the front-runner in order to preserve the status quo.
Next election cycle it will be your guy getting blitz-kreiged.
Trump doesn’t even know the rules.
trump could have done this...
Corbe, Cruz is another warmed over Bush family acolyte.
He is tied to the hip with the GOPe.
Folks, you need to wake up and smell the roses.
Nobody has railed on Cruz like they have Trump.
Please think about that long and hard.
Have you seen even one pow-woe on the topic of denying Ted the nomination?
There have been a number of them to stop Trump.
Wake up folks!
he said in one of his recent rallies hes spent almost 40 million.
Not so. The notion of delegates being "stolen" was mentioned in post #2.
I sent this to the Trump ping list, but here are my numbers and predictions as of right now:
Trump, based on my best guesses (which are pretty lame in districts I know nothing about) will end up with about 1150-1170 delegates. I did not include, nor do not have any polling data for, Indiana (57). Obviously if IN goes entirely for Trump, he is very, very close. Even so, he needs to step up his “splits” in some of the remaining proportional states-—OR, WA, NM, CA, and even NY. He doesn’t have to win every delegate by any means, but he has to come away with more than 5-6.
He has to get at least 140 in CA. In fact, McCain did better than this against Romney in 2008. Quite doable.
He has to nail NY. Polls there suggest he will.
So, my prediction? If Trump stumbles at all-—say, loses more in NY than he thinks reasonable or loses IN-—I predict that he will begin talks immediately with “little Marco” for a veep slot. And I think the discussions last week from the GOPe about having input/control over the veep position were SPECIFICALLY in regards to this possibility. It was a shot across the bow of the “Sweaty little man,” as Mark Steyn calls Rubes.
Amazing that you trump people are hanging your hats on rubio!! the epitome of establishment!!
frickin unreal hypocrisy
Brokered Conventions Often Make A Winning GOP President.
Technically, I think the answer to your question is "no." But the historical examples are interesting.
But Walker would not have done it for Trump - he’s part of the #nevertrump establishment.
I believe that's what's going on.
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