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Ted Cruz: Donald Trump could "encourage riots" in Cleveland if he doesn't win
CBS News ^ | May 1, 2016 | Emily Schultheis

Posted on 05/01/2016 8:47:18 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said in an interview airing Sunday that GOP front-runner Donald Trump may encourage riots if he does not win the Republican nomination in Cleveland this summer.

Asked on CBS' "Face the Nation" if he was concerned about the possibility of violence if he were able to "overthrow" Trump with the delegates in Cleveland, Cruz insisted there wouldn't but said that Trump might try to fan the flames.

"No, it won't, although Donald may do everything he can to encourage riots," he said. "You know, overthrow is such a loaded spin word as ... to bring nothing but chuckles."

Gerald Ford and Abraham Lincoln both won their respective nominations despite coming in with fewer votes than their opponents, he added, so it wouldn't be the first time that the candidate who comes out of a convention is the one who didn't win the most votes during the primaries.

"When we arrive in Cleveland, I'm going have a bunch of delegates," he said. "Donald's going have a bunch of delegates. And it's going be a battle to see who can earn the support of a majority of the delegates elected by the people."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California; US: New York; US: Ohio; US: Texas
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Riots?

What has Cruz been offered to make these allegations?

1 posted on 05/01/2016 8:47:18 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

Good. Let the mutants come out. It will help him. Then when he is office he will use the Guard to exterminate these Marxists.


2 posted on 05/01/2016 8:48:58 AM PDT by ZULU (DON'T GO OFF THE RESERVATION.)
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To: COUNTrecount

This guy is the creepiest politician I’ve ever seen.


3 posted on 05/01/2016 8:49:27 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: COUNTrecount

Trump will win on the first ballot. Cruz can twist and torture what Trump has said in the past, but it’s moot.

Cruz is really being an idiot about this. And that’s putting it nicely.


4 posted on 05/01/2016 8:49:49 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: miss marmelstein

By making a statement like that, he is basically encouraging rioters!!!!!


5 posted on 05/01/2016 8:50:31 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: COUNTrecount

Just a bit of gratuitous character assassination from Classy Cruz.


6 posted on 05/01/2016 8:50:32 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: COUNTrecount

THIS is really not helping Cruz, you know.

Why didn’t his political advisers give him some clue(s)?


7 posted on 05/01/2016 8:51:01 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: COUNTrecount

What an irresponsible charge!!


8 posted on 05/01/2016 8:51:03 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: COUNTrecount
What has Cruz been offered to make these allegations?

I watched him and he lied his @ss off. He's desperate.

9 posted on 05/01/2016 8:51:05 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Hey, guys...let's go shoot some basketball rings.)
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To: JBW1949

That’s what makes him so creepy. How did this guy ever got elected to office? What’s wrong with Texas?


10 posted on 05/01/2016 8:51:34 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: COUNTrecount

Shut up Ted. You’re already DEAD and BURIED!


11 posted on 05/01/2016 8:51:42 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: COUNTrecount

Cruz said there will be a revolt if someone else other than Cruz or Trump was elected. Revolt, Riot, what’s the difference?


12 posted on 05/01/2016 8:51:49 AM PDT by 4rcane
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To: COUNTrecount

Wishing you could, eh? Immigrate?


13 posted on 05/01/2016 8:52:04 AM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: miss marmelstein
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14 posted on 05/01/2016 8:52:11 AM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: COUNTrecount

Ted Cruz is now making Glenn Beck look stable.


15 posted on 05/01/2016 8:52:38 AM PDT by EEGator
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“... see who can earn the support of a majority of the delegates elected by the people.”

Trump has ALREADY done that...

YOU are the one with a bunch of delegates that were given to you...Not by the people, but by the GOPe...


16 posted on 05/01/2016 8:52:47 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: COUNTrecount

Talk about projecting shadows. It is Cruz losing which provoked HIM to support tacitly BLM/Soros/Hillary in riots against Trump in Chicago.

What a PoS, using once again the La Raza language


17 posted on 05/01/2016 8:52:47 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: COUNTrecount

There he goes again.


18 posted on 05/01/2016 8:52:54 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: dragonblustar

I love the lower graphic. My husband loved it too. So funny.


19 posted on 05/01/2016 8:53:01 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: COUNTrecount

WHERE’S A MUZZLE WHEN YOU NEED ONE??!!


20 posted on 05/01/2016 8:53:13 AM PDT by edie1960
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