Posted on 03/06/2016 2:37:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Louisiana state GOP announced the current estimated delegate breakdown: Ted Cruz and Donald Trump both get 18, Marco Rubio gets 5. How is this possible, when Trump got more votes? Well, the popular vote count statewide was effectively a two-man race, as only Trump and Cruz got above 20%. Those at-large delegates (28 total) went 12 for Trump, 11 for Cruz, 5 unbound. But! Louisiana has 6 Congressional Districts, and each gets 3 delegates (18 total). In five of those districts the state GOP is unofficially calling it as Cruz, Rubio, and Trump all getting 1 delegate... except in LA-05, where Cruz gets 2 and Trump gets 1. Thus, the current score is 18-18, with 5 for Rubio and the other 5 officially unaffiliated*.
All of this, by the way, will be the subject of much vigorous debate and discussion in Louisiana political circles over the next week, which probably means that there's going to be a brawl at the upcoming state convention.
Still: if you thought that Donald Trump's awful, no-good night was at least over for him, rest assured: it's not. The universe itself conspires to come back to the tableau* of his humiliation and dump one last small, yet stinking, dollop of embarrassment on his head. As it stands now, the guy didn't even win the delegate count in Louisiana. He could only manage to tie with Ted Cruz, a man who Trump just recently described as "L-I-E-N." Perhaps he meant "lion?" It's so hard to tell, with that particular dude.
Moe Lane
PS: If you were ever wondering what good a professional campaign organization can do for a candidate, it's this: it can take a state where the polls had a candidate down by 15 points on Election Day, and turn it into a state where the candidate tied for first in the delegate count. And perfectly ethically, too! The rules are the rules, and they're perfectly reasonable ones; it's nobody's fault except Trump and his campaign's if they didn't actually read them, and Ted Cruz's people did. Welcome to the big leagues...
*The Republican party doesn't really use super-delegates to the override-the-will-of-the-voters extent that the Democrats do, but the party has a few.
**Well, you know. Louisiana. French. It seemed like a good word to use, under the circumstances.
It'll be a shame for Trump to lose that winner-take-all one.
Breathe, breathe, count to ten, breathe, child, breathe ....
Delegate-wise, which is what this is all about, Cruz won yesterday.
Good attitude . Hope Cruz gets the vp slot
I am for trump/Cruz. Or just Cruz or just trump
In that order
That was yesterday. What is the total count, today?
Source?
I thought the same thing and was challenged on the source
Cruz would be my first choice. but there is NO WAY he will win a general election. I don’t know what kind of fantasy world you all live in where you think this guy could beat Hillary Clinton.
LOL
Red State wants Republican statism. Cruz is their new flavor of the month. Trump cannot and will not deliver establishment goodies, and they know it.
We The People have a big problem.
The most important issues to me is build that wall, create jobs and repeal obama care......Cruz can't do it and after they give him this election he is in debt to everyone...I can hear it now “We put you in office we can take you out”
They wont be able to do this if Trump is elected and I fear for his family...
You didn’t read the above article?
Last night Trump echoed Cruz's call for Rubio and Kasich to drop out, which would among other things, prevent a brokered convention.
you Cruz guys are really hilarious. Scraping the bottom of the barrel on any little useless tidbit to enhance your guy. Hope you’re sure about what you write in this forum cause you own it. And quite a few will be more than happy to make sure you don’t forget it.
Trump has done nothing but berate Rand Paul on his looks and his double run and still won.
Cruz definitely has the momentum.
That last debate where Trump lied about not be able to release his taxes or the NYT tape where he tells the “establishment” he claims to oppose, that he is “flexible” on illegal immigration put two big nails in his coffin.
The effects of the Trump kool-aid are wearing off.
Every time I check he’s still a Canadian... but I’ll keep checking!
I can accept losing in November if Cruz is the nominee. Not Trump.
LOTS of illegals voting in CA., It would be hard for Trump to get this one however most everyone elastic is SICK TO DEATH of the immigration situation! If they get to the polls in droves it might happen!!
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