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Ted Cruz poised to challenge Trump in Texas
POLITICO ^ | May 11, 2016 | KYLE CHENEY

Posted on 05/11/2016 3:29:02 PM PDT by maggief

Ted Cruz isn’t giving up.

While Donald Trump dispatches three advisers to Texas’s convention in Dallas this week and makes a pitch for party unity, his team will be running up against a Cruz operation that is still maneuvering to stuff the state’s delegation with allies the senator could call on to snub the presumptive nominee.

“We have a busy weekend planned,” said a source familiar with the Cruz campaign’s plans.

Cruz is scheduled to deliver an address at the Texas convention after a week of hinting he could jump back into the presidential contest and urging activists to thwart the New Yorker’s takeover of the GOP’s policy platform. And despite dropping out of the race more than a week ago, the vanquished presidential contender has deployed at least one paid adviser to the Texas Republican convention – Tyler Norris, his state director. (Trump has three advisers: state director Joshua Jones, deputy director Eric Mahroum and Houston-area director Kayla Hensley.)

It’s not just Texas where Cruz is still playing.

The senator’s team remains active in several of the other eight state conventions selecting delegates this week – from Nebraska to Oklahoma to Nevada. Those conventions, along with party meetings in Arkansas, Florida and Wisconsin, will be selecting 389 national delegates, nearly a sixth of the entire convention.

If Cruz were still working to send the nomination fight to a contested convention, this weekend’s delegate hunt would have been the main event – the largest single delegate selection weekend of the primary season. Now, it’s become a display of Cruz’s last hardcore bastions of support and a forum for Trump to appeal for unity.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: canadian; cruz; cruzdelegates; cruzie; frembarrassment; ineligible; loooooozer; lyinted; mentalillness; texasconvention; theocracy; twofacedrino
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To: maggief
Ted is a very slow learner...


161 posted on 05/11/2016 5:02:32 PM PDT by Heart-Rest ( "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil!" Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Psalm 144

Everyone should be required to prove American citizenship before they are admitted to the convention. OK with that, Mr. Cruz?


162 posted on 05/11/2016 5:04:29 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Psalm 144

I bet he has hurt the evangelical movement


163 posted on 05/11/2016 5:04:36 PM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: Psalm 144

‘He is and always has been a mawkish conservative lawn jockey in front of the globalists’ manor.’

What an image—bravo!


164 posted on 05/11/2016 5:04:56 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: HarleyLady27

I was repeating the term of the naysayers: “gibberish”...OBVIOUSLY I agree with a moratorium but it looks like Rudy is opposed to it.


165 posted on 05/11/2016 5:06:52 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: Jeff Head

You may be right, but I don’t know. I find it difficult if not impossible to trust Ted Cruz,


166 posted on 05/11/2016 5:06:54 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Jane Long

So now it’s up to me to show the evidence necessary to discredit a liberal rag source? A liberal rag that has been laughed at incessantly and far left and parroted by the MSM as cutting edge journalism? Are you that serious? And FYI don’t assume that just because a conservative questioning a laughable source posted on what is presumed to be a conservative site is automatically a Cruzer.


167 posted on 05/11/2016 5:06:55 PM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: magna carta

He is making sure that Trump doesn’t break any of the laws that our Uni-party people have passed...sorry if I offended you...didn’t mean to...


168 posted on 05/11/2016 5:09:29 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: Heart-Rest

LOL!

(He stood up down there on the floor, we just can’t see it. He’s like Jason from Friday the 13th.)


169 posted on 05/11/2016 5:09:34 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Abbeville Conservative

Problem is, the name being bandied about for a primary challenge is George P. Stay OUT da Bushes!


170 posted on 05/11/2016 5:10:09 PM PDT by Rastus (#NeverHillary)
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To: catnipman

It’s like I’ve awaken in the Twighlight Zone. Conservative site sourcing political pieces long stood behind on this site = now bad.

A piece that purportedly has Cruz still actively campaigning from a liberal site a step below DU and financed by some of the most blood sucking unamerican pieces is Sh...= credible and to be believed and warrant conservative site analysis

Unbelievable


171 posted on 05/11/2016 5:11:05 PM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: MamaB

Was only commenting against the comment you supplied....I know you didn’t post.


172 posted on 05/11/2016 5:12:31 PM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: MamaB

I get a feeling that “it’s personal’ now with Ted.


173 posted on 05/11/2016 5:13:34 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: Jarhead9297

Care to provide a list of credible conservative news sources?


174 posted on 05/11/2016 5:16:20 PM PDT by maggief
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To: M. Thatcher
As someone posted on a thread a couple of days ago

Ted burned up on reentry.

175 posted on 05/11/2016 5:18:48 PM PDT by spokeshave (Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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To: HarleyLady27

I understand. I worry though abt Rudy as he seems more liberal on this. Am tweeting him right now


176 posted on 05/11/2016 5:19:29 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: maggief

The big question is will Texans condone this behavior? I hope not.


177 posted on 05/11/2016 5:24:13 PM PDT by teletech
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To: grania

Does anyone go to the Kentucky Derby and not place a bet?
And, oh yeah. After all that time on the campaign trail, it’s surprising they weren’t home with the kids.

In my mind, the issue is hypocrisy.

I was called an “ass” for saying that same “stupid” comment. Imagine that Bible thumping Lyin Ted at a
place where there is drinking, gambling and swearing.

Yes, the hypocrisy!


178 posted on 05/11/2016 5:25:18 PM PDT by mouse1
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To: MaxistheBest

indeed he was. And buddying up to Bevin.


179 posted on 05/11/2016 5:30:57 PM PDT by blueplum (March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?)
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To: HarleyLady27

“Gibberish???? Yes, he appointed Rudy to look into how to do this without violating any laws....you have a problem with it???”

Precisely. The laws are there. We don’t need another raft of laws that aren’t enforced if they are only a pretext for another general amnesty. And they would be if we left it up to Uniparty.

http://www.fairus.org/facts/us_laws

See the last page, The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRAIRA), enacted in 1996.

Even a Democrat got it, ten years after the `86 `Ally ally in come free!’ act: “Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave...For the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.”
(Barbara Jordan, February 24, 1995 Testimony to House Immigration Subcommittee)
Of course, Clinton didn’t do jack, just kicked the can down the road. Then ten years later Bush II tried for another general amnesty, of course with more legalsoft-soap gibberish.

Hey Uniparty, you and your administrative judges—we the people could have done without the San Bernadino Islamic killers!
Trump is right, again. Go Rudy! Flush them out.


180 posted on 05/11/2016 5:34:18 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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