Posted on 04/10/2016 5:04:07 PM PDT by Innovative
Donald Trump’s effort to reset his campaign following defeat in Wisconsin showed no signs of paying off this weekend, as a series of technical failures by his campaign set his hopes back even further.
From Thursday to Saturday, Trump suffered setbacks in Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, South Carolina and Indiana that raise new doubts about his campaign’s preparedness for the long slog of delegate hunting as the GOP race approaches a possible contested convention. He lost the battle on two fronts. Cruz picked up 28 pledged delegates in Colorado. In the other states, rival campaigns were able to place dozens of their own loyalists in delegate spots pledged to Trump on the first ballot. This will matter if Trump fails to win a majority of delegates on the first ballot in Cleveland, as his delegates defect once party rules allow them to choose the candidate they want to nominate.
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What has Cruz ever done that he said he would do. Did he promise to filibuster the spending bill that funded Obamacare for 21 hours then two hours later to vote to move the bill along? Did he campaign on a 500% increase on Hib visas and double green cards? Did he promise to support TPA, vote on cloture, then back down when it becomes inevitable?
Trump hired Manafort who worked on the McCain, Romney, Dole, and both Bushes’ campaigns. Very late to the game of wrangling delegates but he hired a seasoned political operative to help.
Trump until late July 2015 was for a legalization amnesty without deportations for the non criminals. He even said that he would consider a citizenship amnesty later.
After late July, Trump has been for deporting them all BUT expediting the good ones back for a legalization amnesty.
Even thought at some point they'd both team up to kick the crap outta the establishment.
As time went on, it seemed Trump was using all the free press, tweets and so forth as the main engine of his campaign....not the needed infrastructure in the states that appeared to be the Cruz campaign.
Then came all the childish insults and nasty attacks against everyone around him. The media, pundits, other candidates, seemed no one escaped some sort of snarky comments from Trump. I began to feel he was going to trip up by saying something really stupid.
Ted Cruz is my senator, I know what he’z about. Staunch constitutional conservative and no doubt in my mind he'd make a strong president. I've made a point to watch as many Trump rallies, interviews, debates and town halls. He may be smart and cunning, but the man cannot articulate a point to save his life. Every single event, same short lil soundbites and tidbits with very little substance or meat in which to grasp.
Trump understands business, no doubt. He doesn't understand the logistics of a political campaign and it's becoming pretty evident.
Trump isn’t doing very well either at the voter game. He keeps saying he had more votes, but that’s apples and oranges because he’s comparing open & closed primaries and caucuses as if they are the same.
Simple fact is you need 1237 delegates to win. Short of that it’s all up to the delegates...in which case Cruz is winning.
That’s exactly it. Cruz supporters don’t seem to realize that Hillary’ operatives will have already shopped for a judge to hear an eligibility case, and rule against Cruz accordingly.
Do you even understand how the rules work?
Huh? Can you please translate that into English? Or maybe auto-correct messed you up...happens to me too. SO please translate.
Show me where he said that during or after the announcement of his candidacy on June 16, 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrqLQK7ecNE
Headline on Drudge right now!
FURY AS COLORADO HAS NO PRIMARY OR CAUCUS; CRUZ CELEBRATES VOTERLESS VICTORY
Simple fact is we’re supposedly a democracy where you need to win 1237 delegates to be selected by the people, not a bunch of party hacks in CO.
All these schemes and scams designed to thwart the will of he voters should be ended.
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Agree. There needs to be a major push to go to closed primaries in every State, thus eliminating the caucases and open primaries that lead to so much crossover voting.
And ALL delegates need to be pledged delegates, elected only by the voters in each state in primary elections.
It would take quite a movement to make real progress toward that, but maybe something will start since more and more people are hearing about the scams and schemes used to ignore the voters when they don’t vote as the political overlords desire.
There is worse stuff in Manafort’s resume (see article on him in Wikipedia). He hired himself out to the communists in Ukraine to restore them to power after they were deposed by the Orange Revolution. Pay him enough $$$$$$ and he is for sale. His occupation is “lobbyist.” He is capable but quite corrupt.
“Do you even understand how the rules work?”
I don’t need to understand. Trump’s campaign needs to understand and I am sure they do and will do what is needed.
“I’ve seen several people zotted over saying they won’t vote for Trump if he’s the nominee”
I won’t vote for Trump if he’s the nominee and I haven’t been Z...poof
Give me a break. It was the equivalent of the U.N. denouncing the Palestinians but also saying the Israelis were to blame too. That's what Cruz did. After his general statement denouncing violence, he proceeded to blame Trump for "inciting violence."
I’ll tell you what: The more that the GOPe lies, cheats and steals the convention vote, the more I support him!
The GOPe is more evil as the entire Democrat Party!
I'm not against Trump. If he fails to put together a serious organization that understands these intricacies of campaigning and delegate gleaning....who’z error is it?
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