Posted on 04/09/2016 8:53:34 PM PDT by sickoflibs
While Donald Trump continues to lead in delegate count, this week has not been his in terms of momentum. The GOP frontrunner was handed a resounding defeat in Wisconsin, where rival Ted Cruz beat him 48.2% to 35.1%. Now all eyes have turned to New York, the next primary in the nominating contest, with 95 delegates at stake — where Trump currently enjoys a commanding 56% to 22% lead over Cruz in the latest poll.
But even before the New York primary in a couple weeks, Trump may be precluded from reaching the required 1,237 delegates before the Republican National Convention, given what’s rather quietly happening in Colorado as we speak. As The Washington Post wrote of the Colorado delegates:
But if the Republican presidential race between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz is decided by just a handful of delegates, what happens in Colorado this weekend might matter most of all.
Nate Silver goes so far as to suggest that if Trump gets shut out in Colorado this weekend, he will definitely fall short of the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination before the convention. And that, of course, would leave him vulnerable to the workings of the GOP convention, which many — including Trump supporters — fear could quash his chances of walking away as the nominee.
Many observers — and the Trump campaign itself — don’t expect Trump to do well in Colorado.
Based on what happened in the first two district contests, it is expected that Ted Cruz will sweep the 34 Colorado delegates being selected at the district and state assemblies. The remaining three delegates are the members of the Republican National Committee from Colorado and can remain unbound.
As of Friday afternoon, Cruz has dominated the first five contests in Colorado, while Trump and Kasich remain empty-handed. While neither candidate will make the trip to Colorado this weekend, both Trump and Kasich are putting more focus on the state convention’s weekend proceedings, in an attempt to nab some delegates before it’s over.
While this contest is likely to garner a small fraction of the coverage the upcoming New York primary will get, it’s on its way to quietly tipping the scales further toward a contested convention.
[Note: This article was written by Michelle Jesse, Associate Editor]
But we stopped Trump
It’s no different than the GOPe stealing the primary for Thad Cochran in Mississippi.
In an unrelated item, read the dozens of Trumpster posts on this thread about how Allen West is a card-carrying member of the GOPe.
Cruz is proving that he is Mitt’s sock puppet and the GOPe bitch now. That megalomaniacal POS is never going to be President. Ever.
“If I have a government to run, I would prefer qualified, experienced politicians.”
Doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result is called insanity.
You can post it all in caps if it makes you feel better, but it’s still BS.
“game”?
“ deal”?
If Trump was doing this the MSM/establishment punditry would be crying, “See, we told you that Trump was a lying, thieving snake!”
This nails it. Cruz loses gravitas daily in my appraisal of him.
Maybe Cruz should win elections.
Uh, oh. The trumpquisition will throw West under the bus now (they pulled Carson back out from under the bus wheels last month).
Political parties in general, and their government by National Conventions, are not representative organizations.
I’m old enough to remember when there were no primaries. The current state is bad, because it creates an illusion of “electing” a nominee, without rules for defining electors (WHO gets to vote, and under what circumstances).
The result is a hodgepodge of semi-elections happening at different times under different rules, and no organization (and both parties are, still, at least loosely organized) can tolerate being bound by the results of such a mess.
The best available short-term solution would be to restore the 2/3 rule, which both parties had up to 1968. Under this system, you could not have “winners” with 60% of the voters opposed to them. Neither McCain nor Romney could have been nominated by a 2/3 rule.
Never Cruz, Never Trump = ALWAYS Hillary and DEATH to AMERICA..
I agree.. this is getting ridiculous.
They’re going with a family thread because Cruzers keep wandering into our rally threads. There’s supposed to be a cease-fire on the rally threads but some Cruzers don’t know.
But once they end up in a Trump rally thread it starts and vice versa. Though we’re reminded to stay off Cruz threads.
He won a standing vote. When the REAL vote was taken, he lost. That is how it goes.
Some times, there will be several votes taken until everyone is satisfied with the result and there are no further objections.
As for State’s, like mine, with a caucus system... We evote for delegates at our smallest political unit. These then go to a District, then a State, then the National Convention for a vote. We aren’t bound to vote for anyone. IF that were true, MN would still be going for Rubio... Who is no longer in contention.
As usual, Trumped-up wins where bluff and bluster are King. But loses where the real war is won...
No. George W Bush. He had both political and real world experience. He had lots of executive experience and he had an MBA.
“...I sure wont be threatening to help Hillary...”
Under ANY circumstances.
I’ve ALWAYS liked the Colonel.
Would be great to see him somewhere in the mix.
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