Maine: National Cruz camp planning to steal all 23 delegates tomorrow

http://HowieCarrshow.com ^ | Howie Carr Radio program

[Future Useless Eater]

Turn on Howie Carr!

National Cruz people planning to steal all 23 delegates in Maine tomorrow!

The governor wants the delegates that go to Cleveland be 12/ 9// 2. For Cruz / trump / Kasich

Cruz people refusing and fans a full slate completely loyal to Cruz

[silverleaf]

You say Maine “ should be” winner take all
Is it?
What are the rules?

[Mozilla]

Who were these 65,000 people? Ordinary Republican voters? Or people whowent through the long confusing process to be elected a delegate? That’s not a real vote. You have been misled to think rigged state conventions are the same as a primary vote. That was the process but it was unethical and was rigged to favor Cruz.

[katiedidit1]

Crying Don loves to twist the truth. Biggest fraud that has ever run for president in the USA. The same rules that apply to Cruz apply to sniveling Trump and if Trump did not spend so much time on twitter (Trump put the “twit” in Twitter” and took time to learn or hire people that understood the process he would not have any reason to whine and cry like a 2 yr old. Even his own children couldn’t vote for him in New York..ooops they missed the deadline to register. Crying Don will never reach 1237 delegates

[Savage Rider]

The votes are in the results. Cruz won all of the delegates. Let me try one more time: voters (65,000) elected delegates at the precinct level; precinct winners went to elections at the district level; district winners went to elections at the state level; and state winners will go to the national convention. Voting by people ... not dogs or cats ... was at every level of the process.

[silverleaf]

True, I never saw a breakout of those 65,000 Colorado votes

[Savage Rider]

You truly don’t understand irony or sarcasm, do you?

[orchestra]

Did you see Graham Ledger interview Curly Haugland on OAN arguing that the delegates could be unbound even on the first ballot? I know some states it is law.

[JBW1949]

So there is no vote totals of the public??? The people did not have a vote...

[deport]

Darn near isn't the process.

First, Republicans are allocating all delegates based on candidates’ shares of a statewide vote, unless a candidate gets more than 50 percent of votes. If that happens, that person gets all the delegates.

Candidate	Popular Vote	Delegate Votes
		Soft Pledged	Soft Unpledged	Soft Total	Hard Total
Cruz, Rafael Edward "Ted"	8,550  45.90%	12  52.17%		12  52.17%	12  52.17%
Trump, Donald John, Sr.	6,070  32.59%	9  39.13%		9  39.13%	9  39.13%
Kasich, John Richard	2,270  12.19%	2   8.70%		2   8.70%	2   8.70%
Rubio, Marco A.	1,492   8.01%
Carson, Benjamin Solomon "Ben", Sr.	132   0.71%
Paul, Randal H. "Rand"	55   0.30%
Bush, John Ellis "Jeb"	31   0.17%
Fiorina, Carleton Sneed "Carly"	17   0.09%
Huckabee, Michael Dale "Mike"	10   0.05%
Christie, Christopher James "Chris"	0   0.00%
Total	18,627 100.00%	23 100.00%		23 100.00%	23 100.00%

Delegate Selection: Winner-Take-Most Caucus
Voter Eligibility: Closed Caucus
Voter Participation: Party members
 
23 total delegates - 10 base at-large / 6 re: 2 congressional districts / 3 party / 4 bonus

[Whenifhow]

Did Ted Cruz really win every county in Maine?
http://www.politijim.com/2016/03/did-ted-cruz-really-win-every-county-in.html
The day of the caucus, the pundits polled by the Bangor paper reiterated that Trump would win and the LePage endorsement was important.

The same Bangor paper a few weeks earlier published a discussion between pundits which showed that Cruz wasn’t considered in contention at all.
[ ]
So how on March 5th, following Trump’s decisive 7 state win days before on Super Tuesday, did Cruz beat Donald 45.9% to Trump’s 32.6%? Moreover, how is it possible that following a decisive Minnesota win, that Rubio could only have attracted 8% of the vote when he had nearly doubled Cruz’s vote totals in Massachusetts days before? Between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, (as seen in the graphic to the right courtesy CNN Exit Polling), Cruz only won one single precinct or county.

[deport]

Link to above Maine info.

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/ME-R

[Mozilla]

I am well aware delegates have to be elected in every state. But in most it is after citizens have voted for a candidate in a primary or cacus. In Colorado there was neither just went straight to delegate elections at a state convention. The same with a few other states like Michigan, Wyoming, North Dakota and the such. Ordinary Republicans didn’t all flock to a state convention to cast ballots for a candidate. In fact that wasn’t the process. Itwas just to elect delegates and primary be damned. It was a selection not an election for delegates only.

[onyx]

Top Line - all lines in between - Bottom Line.

Cruz can pull all the delegate wins he can, "within the rules," but one thing he can't win is the most important WIN ...that he's already LOST ...

Cruz can't WIN the hearts and minds of VOTERS ...

Donald Trump WON the hearts and minds of VOTERS!

Many millions more hearts and minds!!


Cruz is hated more and more with every delegate he "wins."


Cruz is NOT very smart after all.

The nomination is NOT going to a second ballot.





VOTE (FOR REAL)!

VOTE TRUTH!

VOTE TRUMP!

[silverleaf]

I dint understand why you hypothesize a set of rules to make your pont

Is Maine winner take all, or not
Ted is taking all
Is that the rules?

[Nifster]

Oh goody support for just another ruthless politician

[trisham]

Agreed.

[Lucky9teen]

Wow, spin much?

The delegates are bound by Maine Republican Party rules to honor the results of the state Republican caucus in March when Ted Cruz won 12 delegates, Donald Trump won nine and John Kasich won two.

So Ted Cruz, the Texas senator who won nearly all of the state’s 16 counties, is assured of 12 Maine delegates on the first ballot at the national convention, but those delegates could switch candidates afterward. The same goes for front-runner Donald Trump’s nine delegates and Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s two.

What remains is the election of delegates to represent each candidate. That will take place early Friday after the convention kicks off at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. Twenty delegate seats are up for grabs. Three – a national committeeman, committeewoman and Bennett – have already been selected. Roughly 200 Maine Republicans are vying for the 20 spots.

In Maine, Republican delegates are bound to their candidate for the first ballot. After that they can switch their vote. In other words, a candidate bound to Trump now could vote for Cruz, Kasich or, depending on convention rules developed by the Republican National Committee, someone else after their first ballot is cast in Cleveland. The prospect of delegates changing their votes could set the stage for a competitive election on Friday, especially if the active presidential campaigns get involved.

Ok, so explain to me how Cruz is “stealing” delegates? By this logic, Trump could be stealing delegates. Kasich could be stealing delegates...

But is it not procedure to go and meet with delegates and talk to them and get them to come to your side? And is it Cruz’s fault, that he (or someone from his camp) is doing this and Trump, is not? Again, how is following the procedure, and the rules, “stealing”, let alone nefarious?

[Rad_J]

Are Trump supporters expected to just trust Cruz delegates and the GOP establishment on the first ballot?

Would Cruz supporters trust a full slate of Trump delegates on the first ballot to vote correctly if Cruz was awarded 20 delegates based on the vote?

UnTrusTED!!!

[trisham]

Cruz is a career politician whose only interest is in acquiring more and more power.

[Nifster]

True words. Including the tag