Posted on 03/29/2016 8:12:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump has set his sights on a new target for litigation: the Republican Party. He is threatening to sue the Republican National Committee over delegate allocations in Louisiana. Trump defeated Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in Louisiana's March 5 primary, but Cruz may receive up to 10 more delegates from the state than Trump.
Trump defeated Cruz by 3.6 percentage points in Louisiana. But because the results were relatively close, each candidate was awarded 18 delegates.
There are also five unbound delegates in the state, reserved for party officials and elected officeholders, who are expected to back Cruz. And there are five delegates won by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who has since dropped out of the race for the GOP nomination. They are seen as likely to switch their allegiances to Cruz as well.
The possibility of Cruz finishing second to Trump yet coming away with more delegates has got the New York businessman in a litigious mood....
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Old news...Trump picked up an additional 12 delegates with the certification of Missouri tonight. Essentially nullifies the LA change. Next....
It does not show organizational weakness. Votes are supposed to count. It shows the system is a sham.
it sounds like the GOP-E is just like the DNC — corrupted as all Hell!
(I say this not as a Trumpster, but the person who the most people vote for ..certainly should receive the most delegates)
this is exactly the kind of corrupt BS that Trump (and Bernie) ... say they oppose and want to clean up.
It’s got nothing to do with sleazy gopE tactics. Thanks cruz for keeping the gopE alive, and you too of course 2ndDiv.
The poor baby...
Why is he assuming that he has list the vote of all 5 party leaders?
Why is he assuming that ge has lost the vote of all 5 Rubio delegates?
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(1) You should realize that he’s not going to sue.
(2) The threat brings attention to the corruption of the GOPe and their trying to steal an election.
Most logical people would think that Trump would get the most delegates if he received the most votes. Why should the people of Louisiana even turn out to vote if it doesn’t matter?
Trump saying he may sue puts the spotlight on the GOPe’s corruption. This doesn’t hurt Trump. It helps him. So actually it’s pretty smart to bring attention to it.
BOOM!!!!!!!
Well...after 5 months of organization chaos... He’s still got the GOPe wetting
“it sounds like the GOP-E is just like the DNC — corrupted as all Hell!
(I say this not as a Trumpster, but the person who the most people vote for ..certainly should receive the most delegates)
this is exactly the kind of corrupt BS that Trump (and Bernie) ... say they oppose and want to clean up.”
Amen, amen and again I say amen!
He won the vote and he should gain the most delegates from that state. It does not matter who you support that is the way it should be. If Ted Cruz was honest he’d denounce this practice
Trump is looking for cases of voter fraud in Texas and Ohio.
“It does not show organizational weakness. Votes are supposed to count. It shows the system is a sham.”
Exactly.
Cruz knows the rules inside-and-out and Trump’s people don’t seem to be too familiar with them. I thought Trump hired only the best and the brightest?
Sounds like Hillary’s super delegates.
Except for the fact that those 12 delegates were already included in his total, so he didn't gain anything - he just didn't lose anything. The only thing that happened today is that the count was finalized.
If he had organizational weakenesses, there is no way he would have been able, as a newcomer, to garner over 7 million votes and 751 delegates so far, this primary season. Not to to mention, with very little money spent per voter. This just proves how the establishment has rigged this system to further protect and empower the lawyers and lifelong government workers to maintain their monopoly and tyrannical ways.
He has the best bankruptcy attorneys.
Top guys. Better than anyone else’s.
He appears to be fixing that as you post.
Trump has hired delegate manager Paul Manafort to lead his GOP convention efforts and shore up enough delegates to ensure he wins the nomination on the first ballot at the GOP presidential convention in Cleveland in July. Manafort is well known in GOP circles because in 1976, on behalf of then President Gerald Ford—who ascended to the presidency without being elected because of Richard Nixon’s Watergate-driven resignation—Manafort successfully fended off future president Ronald Reagan in a delegate battle that may end up looking a lot like 2016. Thanks to Manafort’s work for Ford that year, the incumbent president barely held on to the party’s nomination, beating back Reagan’s challenge.
But four years later, when Reagan faced a similar but less complicated delegate battle in 1980, he hired Manafort to lead his successful delegate fight at the convention that year.
Reagan, of course, would go on to win the nomination and then win the White House back for Republicans from the failing Carter.
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