Posted on 04/11/2016 12:40:16 PM PDT by Hojczyk
You better believe when Trump is president, he won’t be the one crying to the rest of the world...
Another way to look at it is what are the Electoral College votes of the states that each of the GOP candidates won?
That metric might show relative power in the general election compared to the other GOP candidates.
He won those delegates because he won the voter, unlike cruz who wins delegates with no voters voting and he celebrates a great victory
You must be paid to defend this crap or you are part of the elitist establishment.
No, Trump has received 37% of Republican primary votes - not 80%.
Cruz has gotten 114.9k votes per delegate to Trumps 108.4k per delegate.
Face it. At this point, nobody is going to switch from other candidates to Cruz. But he sure is losing real honest to goodness voters at an amazing rate. How can you not see that the best way to get the elite backstabbers out of power is the Trump nomination?
Trump won the delegates therefore owns them by any honest standard anyway. Cruz is throwing out talking points faster than Obama on why it’s ok for him to steal from the voters.
He fills 12,000 seats stadiums and thinks he doesn't have to do the work to secure the delegates he needs. So when Cruz does the work, Trump automatically calls foul.
I really expected more out of Trump's brain.
Does that include Colorado??
What’s the source on that?
False. The CO GOP had precinct caucuses, district and county caucuses and the state convention. Any Republican who wanted to participate could, and the delegates at each level were selected by the votes of the people participating. So all of the CO delegates were selected by the voters who cared enough to participate.
It would be uphill for Cruz, as well. (and getting harder as the rhetoric ratchets up) But because of his astronomical and still-rising negative rating Trump absolutely cannot.
Ok, give me the number of votes in Colorado for Cruz, Trump and Kasich.
It’s not that no one can see supporting Trump is opposing the elitists in the party. At least I certainly agree with that!!!
The issue is, for at least me, this is still the primary and there is no way no how anyone can convince me that Trump is more conservative than Cruz! And since it’s the primary I’m voting for who I think is the more conservative. MD votes in 2 weeks. My vote still counts doesn’t it?
Once (or if) Trump gets 1237 delegates behind him he’s my guy. (If he could lay off the dramatics maybe it wouldn’t be so difficult for me to vote for him in Nov but I still will, since he’s definitely better than Hillary IMO too)
I think you're totally off base and out of touch (no offense meant) A majority of voters, whether it's Sanders or Trump, are voting against entrenched sold out establishment pols. A lot of those Sanders votes aren't ideologically comfortable with him, they just happen to be Democrats who can't stand hillary. Trump will win in a landslide because of crossover and Independent votes.
This is a dumb statement. Of course they knew the rules. I'm glad to see so many establishment jackboot lickers such as yourself are now all of a sudden, satisfied with the status quo. Your ignorance is allowing the GOPe to continue their corruption. May your chains rest lightly, and may posterity forget you were our countryman.
“I know it’s hard for you to figure out, but in the earlier primaries, a lot of the votes were tahen up by the candidates no longer participating...”
Exactly. The fallacy of too few alternatives is getting used so much it’s overheating!
The only sleaze is the crapfest being served by Trump's sycophants... and I say that as a guy who's not #nevertrump.
If Trump’s campaign hadn’t screwed up so badly, it wouldn’t have happened. Once again displaying incredible incompetence, it told people to vote for the wrong delegate numbers, so that instead of Trump delegates, they voted for Cruz delegates. There’s no one to blame here but Corey Lewandowski and the other “good people” Trump has hired to run his campaign.
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