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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

He’s turning into McCruz.


41 posted on 05/11/2016 3:51:19 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: maggief

The Cubnadian poser needs to get the hell out of MY TEXAS!


42 posted on 05/11/2016 3:51:25 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: maggief

I am really beginning to dislike the Cubanadian.


43 posted on 05/11/2016 3:51:38 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All
Same old same old. Ted falsely claimed Ben Carson was leaving the race. Then he falsely claimed he was leaving the race.

Good point. I think there is something more serious with his mental condition than we thought.

Maybe the staunch Cruz advocates here can shed some light on Cruz' strategy.

44 posted on 05/11/2016 3:52:15 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: phoneman08

Looks like the Texas deadline for independent filing for POTUS is June 23.

Another option is grabbing the Libertarian nomination.
Their convention is end of this month.


45 posted on 05/11/2016 3:52:20 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: monkeywrench

“Narcissistic personality disorder.”

Bat crap crazy!


46 posted on 05/11/2016 3:53:14 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: silverleaf

This guy has been brainwashed buy his supporters and talk show host pals.

Sometimes one has to just trust gut instinct. My gut told me Cruz was a dangerous charlatan. Had him pegged.


47 posted on 05/11/2016 3:53:46 PM PDT by phoneman08 (Reagan conservative union member. Not as rare as you think!)
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To: grania

“Today’s email: They’ve prayed for direction”

So they don’t tell you they are plotting a coup at the convention, just send money!!

“So....give whatever you can to help Cruz keep his conservative vision alive.”

Both of them were at the Kentucky Derby last Sunday and they were in the section called Millionaire’s Row... at least $2,750 each plus. Yup ..keep the vision alive.


48 posted on 05/11/2016 3:54:00 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
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To: maggief

50 posted on 05/11/2016 3:54:55 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If you can't graciously honor JimRob's wishes, then kindly stay the hell out of his house.)
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To: maggief

So glad that Ted and Glenn and Mark and some of the folks here are delusional enough to think this is helpful


51 posted on 05/11/2016 3:54:56 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Jim Robinson

Lyin’ Ted was always and still is a Bush Establishmentarian.

Like the Bushies, he is not to be trusted.

The Primaries simply unmasked the canadian phony.


52 posted on 05/11/2016 3:56:27 PM PDT by newfreep
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To: phoneman08

“This guy has been brainwashed buy his supporters and talk show host pals.”

I think it’s the other way around....he and his father are the leaders of a cult. I’m glad Trump went after his father.


53 posted on 05/11/2016 3:56:28 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
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To: jennychase

If anyone knows about men talking gibberish without pants it would be Amanda Carpenter.

Pray America wakes


54 posted on 05/11/2016 3:56:42 PM PDT by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
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To: maggief

Cruz wants to take control of the party platform to be a thorn in Trump’s side.

I’m curious what he thinks the arty platform should be. He took many of the same stances as Trump during the campaign but I guess he was ... LYING.


55 posted on 05/11/2016 3:56:46 PM PDT by Amntn ("The only special interest not being served by our government is the American people" - Donald Trump)
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To: mrsmith

What is the saying? Familiarity breeds contempt. I voted for Ted Cruz here in Texas and now am wondering. He needs to tend to his office as our senator. Remember that Ted? Remember what we elected you to do.


56 posted on 05/11/2016 3:56:50 PM PDT by uscga77 (the truth remains)
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To: phoneman08

His crazy old man Rafe has had him pegged as the annointed one for years - I think ted has attended a number of those rallies


57 posted on 05/11/2016 3:57:02 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Jeff Head

“tempest in a tea pot “
Yes, there are plenty of good reasons for this.

The obvious one is that ‘his’ people just want to go to the convention!


58 posted on 05/11/2016 3:57:56 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: silverleaf

He has missed more than 94% of Senate votes this year. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/ted_cruz/412573


59 posted on 05/11/2016 3:57:58 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Jeff Head

The problem isn’t the platform, it’s the rules committee. The platform is his excuse.


60 posted on 05/11/2016 3:58:36 PM PDT by RedWulf (End Free trade.)
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