LoL don't party too much there Red State. You're about to lose Michigan and Mississippi in 2 days.
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.
Mr. Soros still providing free pizza and beverages?
Cant argue with a thing you wrote.
LoL don't party too much there Red State. You're about to lose Michigan and Mississippi in 2 days.
Nope, you're wrong again.
People are in total denial. We have a Supreme Court that has shown us, more than once, they have no regard for the Constitution. So what does that tell people when it comes to the citizenship issue. This Supreme Court will do whatever it wants to do should Cruz become President and a lawsuit ends up at the Supreme Court. God help us.
The last Field Poll has Cruz at 25%, Trump at 23%, and Rubi at 13% (within margin of error), but still a reason for Trump's campaign not to get overconfident.
Spoken like a true anti-Trump guy. Donald Trump had a pretty good night, winning the two biggest states, LA and KY.Except that this very article states that Trump tied LA (the biggest take of the States that day). At least that's what the Trump fans said when Trump lost Iowa ("It's the delegates that matter").
It was a bad day for Trump because his lead is shrinking, he is consistently under-performing the polls, and he is losing the appearance of inevitability.
I wish more Americans would come to understand this so we all can get to cleaning up this mess. This government has been un-Constitutional for a long, long time.
Isn’t that the pic of Trump mocking the goofy spastic liberal......
To think at the beginning of the night everyone was calling this state for Trump. This is awesome. I sure hope the Trump kool-aid is wearing off.
(you know, on second thought, I believe that goofball silly looking spastic was flailing his arms much faster, roflmao)
I don't think we're there yet. Don't forget that Ted Cruz's 'wins' were in caucuses. In fact, in Maine less than 20,000 people voted in the whole caucus! Considering that Kentucky was a caucus, I think Trump did quite well. I was surprised that it was so close in Louisiana but it was a closed primary, meaning that it was closer to a caucus then an open primary. If Trump is truly losing his lead, we'll see it on Tuesday in Michigan and Mississippi.
Well, consider this: On super Tuesday, Trump won 7 states and won 42% of the delegates. Cruz only won 3 states, but got 36% of the delegates. On super Saturday, Cruz won 2 of the states and won 44.5% of the delegates; Trump won 2 states and won 34% of the delegates...
So on those 2 dates, Trump won 4 more states, but came away with a grand total of 17 more delegates than Cruz.
Then Cruz better pick a damn good VP.
Tied? Trump won by 11,000 votes. They both received the same number of delegates. Trump remains ahead by 82 delegates.
We definitely are Not a Constitutional Republic anymore.. We have an Oligarchy calling all the shots.
Donald Trump 41.4%
Ted Cruz 37.8%
Marco Rubio 11.2%
John Kasich 6.4%
All Others 3.1%
when under audit you NEVER make anything public.
Why hasn’t cruz explained why he defended Toyota’s contempt finding? He lost there.
Cruz represented drug companies against consumers.
Cruz has a tidy long history of cashing in on his past public service. He will work at a megafirm as a “past senator”
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