Posted on 04/19/2016 8:04:57 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Donald Trump says he wants to unite the Republican Party, but he keeps acting as if he’s mounting a hostile takeover. He’s now threatening to blow up the party’s July convention because he and his campaign were too lazy or inept to understand the 50 state nomination rules.
That’s the story behind Mr. Trump’s complaints that the party’s nominating rules are “rigged” against him. “It’s a crooked system. It’s 100% corrupt,” the front-runner howled on Sunday following a Friday op-ed on these pages making the same claims. He added on Sunday that he hopes a contested GOP convention in July “doesn’t involve violence.” Thanks for the warning.
Mr. Trump is upset that he’s being outhustled in winning delegates, and that he may fall short of the 1,237 he needs to win a majority in July. His latest embarrassment came at the Wyoming state convention on Saturday as Ted Cruz won the 14 delegates up for grabs. Mr. Cruz was the only candidate to show up in Casper, where he added to the nine (of 12 available) delegates awarded last month at county meetings. Mr. Trump, who said he didn’t want to “waste money going to Wyoming,” now claims Mr. Cruz won thanks to “party bosses.”
This is the same line the New Yorker leveled at the Colorado GOP, which also uses county and state conventions (rather than a popular vote) to elect delegates, and which recently awarded Mr. Cruz a delegate sweep. Yet both state processes were transparent and well known to all campaigns since last year.
In Wyoming’s case, “every presidential candidate for the last 40 years has managed this process and has worked through this process and has followed the process,” state GOP Chairman Matt Micheli told Fox News.
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Trump has them on defense.
I actually agree with your point. Here is a link to my campaign suggestion:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3422096/posts
No. THEY are acting as if Trump is mounting a hostile takeover.
“HE’S TAKING OUR PORK!”
“Who’s gonna pay the Wall Street Journal for wheel & deal articles if Trump wins?”
And Cruzers should work on selling Cruz instead of hysterically ranting about “Trump violence” and making blacklists.
I hope Trump defeats gope Cruz in New York and wins the presidency TONIGHT! ! Go Trump! New york can save America and the world Tonight! go!
Trump will make America Great again!
illegals and China are literally destroying the USA. Only
Trump is willing to stop these and knows how to as with the Wall and he knows what China is doing to us.
I’m not a 100% sure but Trump is smarter than this with all the whining he is doing, probably is a strategy to get TV time and it is working, he is constantly in the news.
Trump is complaining that people do not get to vote and have a say more than anything. This article totally misrepresents his position.
“Wile E. Coyote call your office; someone is stealing your act.”
Ahh, unicorns and magical second ballots.
The Donald is mentally ill.
This article totally misrepresents his position.
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Well, DUH! It’s a Establishment Rag!
The way we can tell that Obama is part of the Establishment is that they never fought this hard against him.
I didn't know! ...Rigged! ...Unfair!
Just read the whole article. Nowhere does Trump threaten to blow up anything. He is quoted, however, as saying he hopes there is NO violence in Cleveland, exactly the opposite of what the title implies.
Another day, another hit job.
The penultimate sentence of the article reads: “The GOP is a private institution whose purpose is to nominate a candidate who can win an election to further party ideals.”
Note the two-part test: 1) be able to win in November, and 2) further party ideals.
Now, I know most Trump supporters think that the GOP no longer has ideals worth mentioning, but that simply indicates that Trump supporters shouldn’t be choosing the GOP candidate, does it not? After all, if your purpose is to change the GOP, why wouldn’t Trump supporters be in heavy attendance at all those state caucuses that Cruz keeps winning handily? Indeed, it’s Cruz who’s trying to drag the GOP back to conservative principles and is doing it quite successfully as caucus after caucus shows conclusively.
I’ve asked this in other forums and never get a sensible answer: Why should people who hate the GOP and its principles have a say in nominating the GOP candidate?
The answer, of course, is that they shouldn’t, which is why Trump will not prevail on the first ballot even if he wins 1237 delegates prior to the convention, and he will almost certainly never prevail on a later ballot.
Trump voters might well cost the GOP the election in November, just as Perot voters might have served to elect Bill Clinton in 1992, but the Perot movement is done and the GOP survived. The same will be true of the Trump movement in time.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rcUCLwWCihE
Trump cult-like supporters have turned from being nice people into haters and conspiracy theory believers. I could start a rumor here and if its pro trump, it would posted as factual. I investigated supposed lies and cheating by Cruz and seen they were written by trump hacks with no factual evidence. Innuendos and theories. Back to my point. People I debated in the past have turned into trump zombies unable to step back and see how trump and the media are manipulating them. They are following their emotions and filled with hate. The walking dead don't know there dead.
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