Posted on 05/01/2016 6:37:15 AM PDT by GilGil
Donald Trump won the Arizona Republican primary with 47% of the vote to second place Ted Cruz with 25%.
But that didn’t stop the Cruz campaign and GOP elites from coming in and poaching all of the delegates at today’s state convention. The Cruz camp and GOP elites call this a “good ground game.”
Even former Governor Jan Brewer, an outspoken Trump supporter, had her name removed from the online ballot and did not make the cut.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
You’re listening to Rush more than I do.
I erased the station button his show comes on, in my car. I cancelled my 10 year +/- 24/7 account and removed his app from ALL devices.
I can check in on what cRuznosing he’s doing, via the daily FR Rush thread, if I really want to know what blathering on he’s doing, about his boy cRuz, if I really want to. Which, I usually don’t.
YOU wake up.
Trump funded cRuz, as a fellow Republican.
cRuz is funded by Open Borders PACs. He’s nothing more than an OB operative.
Most smart people I have ever met lack common sense, which often times makes them look stupid.
He is smart enough to cull delegates, but lack of common sense refuses to allow him to see that it does not make him the winner of the general election where these rules are not present. It makes what is obvious to most, that this kind of win makes him not only look bad but evil as well, completely oblivious to him.
He thinks that when the rubber meets the road he will gain the Trump voters to thwart the Democrat candidate to win the Presidency.
Problem is only some of the Trump supporters would follow him for this reason, with reluctance. Many others would just stay at home or vote for some 3rd party candidate.
Regardless, with his lack of common sense he fails to see the realities of this strategy, only that the strategy will take him to the next level of competition.
Bye, Cruz.
Vote Trump
Good job on the governor to expose these shenanigans.
C'mon, let's hear the GOPe/Cruz apologists talk about "the rules" again.
Cruz is so beaten that it's becoming pathetic at this point.
Vote Trump!
This is not a ground game but an inside game, one that overturns the results of the election.
The Cruz delegates will be anti-establishment and unintentionally more favorable to Trump than establishment delegates would be. If Trump is not involved enough to stack the convention with delegates who actively support him, which he could do if he would bother, it's good to have someone who is at least not stacking the convention with delegates who want both Trump and Cruz stopped. The rules changes that would allow that are easy to identify, and they would get us an establishment nominee.
The convention rules will almost certainly prevent ever voting for anyone who does not have the support of a majority of delegates from 5 to 8 states when nominations are made before the first ballot, which rules out everyone but Trump and Cruz. That doesn't stop Cruz shenanigans at the convention, but it stops Kasich/Jeb/Rubio/Christie from twisting the rules against us. As much as some people would enjoy whining that Kasich deserved to lose in November after stealing the nomination from Trump, I don't like whining or losing. I certainly don't want President Hillary, not even if I get to whine, "I told you so!" Cruz choosing delegates loyal to him makes it more likely that Trump will be nominated (he just needs enough committed delegates for that first ballot win) and we can avoid that situation.
You may not like it, but politics is a dirty game. I've been to many conventions, and Trump is not doing his full job here. (And don't call out "Paul Manafort" as if his name were magic. He's good but not up to speed enough in choosing delegates for this convention, or he would have beaten Cruz in AZ!)
I want Trump to win, and his odds would be best with Trump delegates. He's not bothering with that side of the race, so I'm glad Cruz is. Trump's odds are better with Cruz delegates than with establishment delegates. At least with Cruz delegates, there will be no quirky rules changes that hurt Trump on the first ballot, since those would hurt Cruz on the second ballot.
Note: If the Trump delegates were kept off the ballot through genuine cheating, then there should be consequences, both delegate challenges at the start of the convention and possibly legal consequences. If the Trump people simply were not paying attention, or were outvoted in meetings that were announced but they didn't bother attending because they didn't read the agenda carefully, then it serves them right. This may be exactly the warmup Trump needs before he faces Hillary's machine and the urban democrat establishment. A few more close calls or unnecessary losses, and Trump may finally learn the lessons he needs to learn.
Trump is still almost certainly the nominee. He needs to learn these lessons before he faces Hillary, and I am glad someone is serving as the teacher.
G Larry,
That is true up to a point. But when delegate names are “clerically” omitted from the ballot, when caucus votes sent up-stream are altered but caught by the local chair, you know it is far from a fair and impartial process. Folks feel cheaTED in that circumstance.
Yes, Trump loses points for not having a good ground game. Unlike Ted, has has not proven himself to be the consummate politician. But that is Cruz’s ultimate dilemma. You see, we the people do not want a consummate politician, we want a leader. And that is why I switched from being an early Cruz supported to being all in for DJT.
At this point I hope DJT wins it outright on the first ballot so this inside politics game doesn’t blow the party apart and give us President Cankles. It is going to be tough enough to unify against her after all this.
A winner take all primary is a different thing than this. If you can’t see that then you really need to study up.
At least Trump WON a plurality of that vote. Your candidate is engaging in unethical behavior. I guess that is what is meant by a “constitutional conservative”
Even the former Governor of the state said this was dishonest.
Everybody hates Cruz, his roommates in collage hated him,when he was lawyer his supreme clerks hated him ,and his classmates in harvard hated him. When he was working on george bush campaign in 2000 his coworkes hated him.
It tells you about a character that through his entire life people hate him.
No everybody hates him
His roomettes in collage hated him.
His classmates in harvard hated him.
Supreme Court clerks hated him when he was a lawyer for being a jackass
When he was working on bush 2000 election campaign everybody there hated him
This is how much of a jackass cruz is
” Cruz started a study group during his first year in Cambridge, but he announced that “he didn’t want anybody from ‘minor Ivies’ like Penn or Brown.” In an interview with the Boston Globe, another student recalled what happened when she agreed to carpool with Cruz: “We hadn’t left Manhattan before he asked my IQ.”
e was infamous for firing off mundane work e-mails in the middle of the night—it happened so often that some in the Bush campaign suspected him of writing them ahead of time and programming his computer to send while he was asleep. He was also known for dispatching regular updates on his accomplishments that one recipient likened to “the cards people send about their families at Christmas, except Ted’s were only about him and were more frequent.”
Mazin—who has called Cruz “a nightmare of a human being”—recalled that when he was a freshman sharing a dorm room with Cruz, he would get invited to parties hosted by seniors because the upperclassmen pitied him. Cruz, he notes, “was that widely loathed. It’s his superpower.”
“I have plenty of problems with his politics, but truthfully his personality is so awful that 99 percent of why I hate him is just his personality,”
Several fellow classmates who asked that their names not be used described the young Cruz with words like ‘abrasive,’ ‘intense,’ ‘strident,’ ‘crank,’ and ‘arrogant.’ Four independently offered the word ‘creepy.’”
No, they weren’t. There was a process, and some people didn’t understand it. I am a Trump supporter. And I was elected at the AZ Convention yesterday to go to Cleveland. There were a lot of debatable rules, but everyone knew the rules going in, I believe. Only 56 people could vote at convention. There were almost 800 people who put their names in. A lot of hurt feelings. Jan Brewer shouldn’t have even been on the ballot as she should just allow the Governor to take the limelight. That is my opinion only.
Unless you provide links, I will believe you are making up or repeating lies.
It is hard to believe Jan Brewer did not know the rules. Why was her name removed?
My son died on April 9th. He was so happy and proud to be part of Trump’s victory in the primary.
As far as I’m concerned, Cruz just erased my son’s last meaningful contribution to this earth.
The man is sick and evil.
I WILL NEVER SUPPORT TED CRUZ. EVER. EVER!
I’m so sorry for your loss Marie and will pray for your son, you, and your family. God bless you all.
Sorry to hear of your loss.
Her name was there. I am looking at it right now.
Kudos to you for the first reasoned response I’ve received on FR in the last month.
Lyin Ted looks like buyin Ted in that video. :-)
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