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Cruz now tied with Trump in Louisiana! Over? ...It's NEVER over.
Red State ^ | March 6, 2016 | Moe Lane

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.


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
KEYWORDS: cruz; la2016; louisiana; morecuckservatives; tedcruz; trump
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To: ObamahatesPACoal
Cruz was ahead in the last California poll.

It'll be a shame for Trump to lose that winner-take-all one.

21 posted on 03/06/2016 2:54:06 PM PST by DrewsDad (Choose Cruz - The Consistent Constitutional Conservative)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Breathe, breathe, count to ten, breathe, child, breathe ....


22 posted on 03/06/2016 2:54:25 PM PST by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too !)
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To: Hildy

Delegate-wise, which is what this is all about, Cruz won yesterday.


23 posted on 03/06/2016 2:54:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Good attitude . Hope Cruz gets the vp slot

I am for trump/Cruz. Or just Cruz or just trump

In that order


24 posted on 03/06/2016 2:55:45 PM PST by fooman (Get real with Kin Jung mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That was yesterday. What is the total count, today?


25 posted on 03/06/2016 2:57:13 PM PST by Hildy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here come the Trump fits!


26 posted on 03/06/2016 2:58:08 PM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: DrewsDad

Source?

I thought the same thing and was challenged on the source


27 posted on 03/06/2016 2:58:20 PM PST by fooman (Get real with Kin Jung mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: dschapin

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.


28 posted on 03/06/2016 2:58:28 PM PST by Hildy
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To: Baldwin77

LOL


29 posted on 03/06/2016 2:59:39 PM PST by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


30 posted on 03/06/2016 2:59:44 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: Mouton
I said so on super Saturday...all the have to do is cheat 10% and they are doing 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...

31 posted on 03/06/2016 2:59:56 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT (Cards are being played, you have been Trumped!)
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To: Hildy

You didn’t read the above article?


32 posted on 03/06/2016 3:01:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal
> Trump is going to destroy Cruz on every single state on the east and west coast except Maine.

Last night Trump echoed Cruz's call for Rubio and Kasich to drop out, which would among other things, prevent a brokered convention.

33 posted on 03/06/2016 3:01:48 PM PST by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


34 posted on 03/06/2016 3:01:52 PM PST by tenthirteen
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To: No Dems 2016

Trump has done nothing but berate Rand Paul on his looks and his double run and still won.


35 posted on 03/06/2016 3:02:24 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal ( REINCE PRIEBUS: Yeah, but no...you google Ted Cruz ... and immigration...Those are his words,)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


36 posted on 03/06/2016 3:02:37 PM PST by Happy Rain (JIM JONES TRUMP IS TAKING AMERICA TO THE JUNGLE)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Every time I check he’s still a Canadian... but I’ll keep checking!


37 posted on 03/06/2016 3:03:46 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: tenthirteen
Were you in a cave or a monastery yesterday?
38 posted on 03/06/2016 3:03:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: DAVEY CROCKETT

I can accept losing in November if Cruz is the nominee. Not Trump.


39 posted on 03/06/2016 3:04:01 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DrewsDad

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!!


40 posted on 03/06/2016 3:04:29 PM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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