The polished turd ceiling was broken 8 years ago. Trump is gold plated presidential material compared to what we have now.
Posted on 04/06/2016 6:53:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Newt Gingrich on Wednesday marveled at one of Donald Trump's biggest accomplishments in the 2016 race — making Ted Cruz appear normal.
The former House speaker predicted that Cruz could be boosted at a contested convention by establishment support, something that would be unthinkable without an even more polarizing figure like Trump in the race.
“The challenge is entirely on Trump,” said Gingrich, who has been supportive of Trump. “He is not gonna get any help out of the establishment. They have reluctantly concluded that if, you know — Trump in a funny way has normalized Ted Cruz because without Trump, the establishment would be totally opposed to Cruz.”
Indeed, the senator has only garnered support from fellow Sens. Mike Lee and Lindsey Graham. But Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush have also backed his campaign as the best alternative to Trump.
Gingrich pushed back on the notion that anyone other than Trump or Cruz could win the nomination. The 2012 convention rules, he said, were designed to block anybody from competing with Mitt Romney and now make it nearly impossible for someone who isn’t running in 2016 to become the nominee. The 2016 rules, however, won’t be set until the convention begins.
“This could end up being, you know, a really right-down-to-the-wire contest between these two guys,” Gingrich said. “If Trump doesn’t get it, then it will slide to Cruz.”
Trump has a 226-delegate advantage over the Texas senator, who won Wisconsin by a double-digit margin Tuesday. But the Republican front-runner is still nearly 500 delegates shy of the 1,237 needed to clinch the nomination outright before the convention.
While it’s tough to see Cruz surpassing Trump in delegates, Gingrich continued, he has the campaign to win a multi-ballot convention.
“What Cruz of course has done, very intelligently, is he has gone out and he has poached on the delegates that are going to be bound to Trump legally on the first vote, but they’re not bound after the first vote,” he said. “So what he’s trying to do is win elections in Louisiana, in Georgia, etc., where he picks up people that are pledged to help him once they meet their legal obligations. So Cruz, I think, will tell you he will actually get stronger on the second and third ballots. Trump probably won’t. Trump really has to rush to victory on the first ballot, I think.”
Gingrich said he could support either candidate as the nominee but joined the choir of people urging the New York billionaire to be more presidential. Trump has said he will, but doing so would be “boring as hell.”
Trump blasted Cruz and the establishment following a 13-point loss in Wisconsin — a message Gingrich decried as “self-destructive.”
For Trump to win, Gingrich said, his campaign has to give his convention manager Paul Manafort significantly more authority — “because Manafort’s the one real professional he has in the organization who has been through this before, who knows how to do it” — and pump more money into a more expansive daily grassroots delegate operation, in addition to being more presidential.
“The statement he issued last night was, frankly, just self-destructive,” Gingrich said about the missive, which stated, “Donald J. Trump withstood the onslaught of the establishment yet again. Lyin' Ted Cruz had the Governor of Wisconsin, many conservative talk radio show hosts, and the entire party apparatus behind him.”
It went on say, "Ted Cruz is worse than a puppet — he is a Trojan horse, being used by the party bosses attempting to steal the nomination from Mr. Trump.”
Gingrich on Wednesday said: “It was angry and it was hostile. It was demeaning. It’s everything that turns people off about him. He has had a great run, but he has to get to a new plateau if he’s gonna win.”
“(Cruz) has gone out and he has poached on the delegates that are going to be bound to Trump legally on the first vote, but they’re not bound after the first vote,”
That’s right teddy, you can rest assured they won’t get “poached” by someone else or even un-poached by Trump.
You hope.
Trump makes Carrot Top look normal.
This is rich coming from the guy who was blackmailed in the 90s & could not finish off Clinton cause he had his own “zipper problem”.
Not me. I figure Trump will get the 1237.
Only a fool would bet on a turncoat.
Trump rally in New York was electrifying... Did you watch???
The polished turd ceiling was broken 8 years ago. Trump is gold plated presidential material compared to what we have now.
TRUMP already has the “40%” supporters in his bag, but the 11-15% additional he needs, will need to be gotten with a more ‘strategic’ approach. Not the same approach that he’s gotten the 40%. He doesn’t have to change any of his positions, just get off the petty and personal attacks and concentrate more on staying ON MESSAGE with his POSITIONS that got him the 40% support.>>>> agree but he can’t do it. he trotting out melania and ivana
Newt is just telling Trump to work at making Ted look abnormal which Trump is quite capable of doing. Ted has become establishment’s Trojan horse. Very abnormal and unacceptable.
So Newt is saying that Trump exposed Ted Cruz as a political establishment whore. What’s new?
In reading #13 - a very appropriate statement was made. Cruz would not have stood an ice cube chance in hell of surviving the onslaught of GOP heat headed his direction. What if Trump/Cruz in their meeting before the race had planned a plot to bring it on. Seeing this as the only way any other but an ‘approved’ elite puppet could make it to the finish line. Newt is so right about this Trump did make Cruz appear ‘normal’. And while Trump was taking the incoming Cruz was busy planting seeds and watching his garden grow. This kept the ‘wise men’ off his back and he went on his merry way. There are so many questions to be asked and better still, answered. Would Cruz/Trump put aside their differences to save our country and did they plan to do so? Was a deal made to get this to a brokered/contested convention? Is it in Trump’s temperament to put himself on the line with the possibility of losing time, money, pride if the goal was to save our America? Would he nod in agreement with Cruz that they could go in this together and team to make it happen? There are so many dangling ends to this saga. Ted, may God be in your heart and if you have, indeed, formed a partnership with Trump Do NOt forget you are where you are today because of him. Do not attempt to walk away from your side of the bargain. You are being watched closely by US as well as from Above.
Why would I? Did you watch Kasich’s latest rally?
Whew, you’ve got it bad, don’t you?
That was about the best Rally I’ve seen yet. Trump was charged up and his speech was amazing! I had three views going from RSBN.tv, a periscope broadcast from @BradmanTV, and CNN then MSNBC. The crowd was roaring Lyin’ Ted, Build The Wall, and Mexico when Trump asked who’s paying for the wall?
I watch them all!!!
Not really, just faster on the learning curve.
Good reply!
I thought he was great!!! I have to go see him in person!!! My new goal is to make that happen for myself!
I think Trump and Cruz made a deal not to go after each other until Jeb dipped out.
“Trump is gold plated presidential material compared to what we have now.”
Just because a dried-up turd smells less than a fresh turd, it does not mean that the dried-up turd is less of a turd.
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