Posted on 05/02/2016 10:59:17 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Even as Donald J. Trump trounced him from New Hampshire to Florida to Arizona, Senator Cruz could reassure himself with one crucial advantage: He was beating Trump in the obscure, internecine delegate fights that could end up deciding the Republican nomination for president.
“This is how elections are won in America,” Cruz gloated after walking away with the most delegates in Wyoming.
But it turns out that delegates — like ordinary voters — are susceptible to shifts in public opinion. As the gravitational pull of Trump’s recent primary landslides draws more Republicans toward him, Cruz’s support among the convention delegates is softening, threatening his hopes of preventing Trump’s nomination by overtaking him in a floor fight.
With each delegate Trump claims, he gets closer to the 1,273 he needs to clinch the nomination outright, and Cruz’s chances of stopping him — even if he pulls out a victory in Indiana primary — shrink.
Before Trump’s crushing victory in Pennsylvania, Cruz’s campaign boasted that it had 69 people devoted to acquiring as many as possible of the state’s 54 unbound delegates — who are free to vote as they please on the first ballot, making them potentially decisive players in a contested convention.
Mr. Cruz won only three.
In North Dakota, where the Cruz campaign declared...it had won “a vast majority” of the 28 unbound delegates, Cruz’s support appears to be weakening. In interviews, delegates said he really had only about a dozen firm commitments to begin with, and some of them appear to be wavering as he falls farther behind Trump.
And in states across the South, which was supposed to be Cruz’s bulwark, some delegates are now echoing a growing sentiment inside the Republican Party: a sense of resignation to the idea that Mr. Trump will be their standard-bearer.
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Delegate Shrinkage.
So, so sad.
Looks like cRuz’s ‘ground game’ got a flat.
He was always running on Viagra. Guess his 4 hours are up, oops down:-)
Let’s face facts he couldn’t even stimulate his partners in the senate to get into bed with him!-)
Beck! Fast harder!!
Boom! Trump receives a yuuuuuge endorsement from another major newspaper!
Flaccid.
Cruz’ ground game after coming in 3rd or 4th place caught on live video:
http://www.drbongo.com/play/vbA
It seems the delegates are not only talking to Mssr. Cruz, but are hearing from the streets that their lives won’t be worth a darn, as spoken about by ‘the great unwashed electorate’.
It seems the difference of the hardness of the delegates trending to their softness, resembles the difference in how a semiwadcutter bullet looks when placed next to a full wadcutter bullet.
(Shrunk like a turtle).
[(HARD to soft)]
The delegates must have caught a glimpse of Carly...
#ThatFace
This explains the phenomena of CSED the medical community has noticed all across the country over the past weeks. Cruz Supporter Erectile Dysfunction.
electile dysfunction?
We the people might have a little something to say about that.
Her political posture exudes nonseriousness. Maybe this is Cruz’s soft surrender, his face-saving back-out.
Won for Trump, it looks more and more, by the other guy giving it away.
And thus it may well be for Hillary. She will peter out and cry “aunt.”
Shrinkage.... and hard to soft. Got it... lol
Wasn’t it a sight when Donald, being sneaked in the back door of a hotel that was being picketed in the front, jumped a 3 foot curb. He’s definitely got a lot of spry left in him, that ole former WWE redneck rassler. I think he’s just going to wear out most of his foes. At his age, too.
He was in the pool! The candidate pool!!
‘We the people’ finally have a voice in matters due to Free Republic and social media distributing the truth.
Without alternative communication, we never would have had a clue.
Thank-you Jim Robinson.
Maybe he needs some of those little blue pills; what do you think?
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