Posted on 04/09/2016 4:51:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Its not easy being a Donald Trump supporter in Colorado.
Becky Mizel, a prominent Trump volunteer and former county party chairwoman in the state, was standing at the entrance to the Colorado GOP Convention, waving a slate of delegates the Trump campaign has endorsed to send to the national convention.
With her arm still in the air, she needled a volunteer tasked with setting up Trump signs outside of the arena where the convention is being held, and was upset because they went missing.
Somebody stole them, Mizel said under her breath, sounding irritated but unsurprised. The state party convention, she readily admitted, is not really Trumps crowd and thats part of the reason she doesnt expect much to come from the slate Saturday.
We know were not going to take anything out of (the slate), but it was mostly an emotional shot in the arm for the Trump people who are here because they were feeling demoralized because nothing is here, she told NBC News.
Just having a table and signs made them go, Oh, were not alone, theres other Trump people. Its more of a psychological edge, she said.
Mizel admitted that she would be happy if they take one or two delegates. So far, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has swept all 21 of the states delegates already elected at the congressional district level....
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Just saying.
Making deals and winning? Isn't that exactly what Trump promises, and isn't that exactly why people want him as a leader? Cruz has out maneuvered Trump in locking in the delegates, that is Trumps mistake and his campaigns failure not anything slimy or illegal or immoral on Cruz's campaigns part. Cruz didn't make the rules, he just made sure he knew how to play the game.
I think that is exactly what Trump will consider.
He has a lot of money. He hasn’t used much, so far.
So you have no problem Trump targeting individual GOPe congressmen to disregard the voters decision when they have been voted in ?
To clarify, Trump has a lot of assets worth billions, that isn't cash money...
Are you so myopic you think Trump will fund Trump supporters to run in congressional races to start whatever you think he will start ?
Seriously ?
Colorado State Assy just voted a clean slate of 13 for Cruz, 0 for Trump.
Thats 34 of 37 for Cruz in Colorado, with only 3 at-large delegates TBD.
I think the GOP is for sale.
En mass.
Trump wants to bring America back. I also want that. A whole huge number of Americans have been watching the ever-more dramatic sell-out of our beloved country, and transfer of capabilities to a massive communist country, and are fed up with it.
I think the GOP is risking everything right now.
Everything.
——I think the GOP is for sale.——
What a naive comment (no disrespect) politicians as opposed to statesman, have always been for sale, they sell themselves for your vote to put in their pocket...
Only in the last 40 years have they figured out they can put your vote in one pocket and the corp money in the other pocket and hope you aren’t paying attention....
You are mistaken to think Trump will bring America back....that America is long gone to the ash heap of history....it pains me to write that, but it’s absolutely true...
Can he correct some very dangerous trends in America....time will tell...
One thing for sure he will need a GOPe Congress to help him do it....so he isn’t going to kill it... Whatever that means...
Being the true outsider, I desire his victory.
Keep your little bought and paid for toady, he’ll keep the game going and you guys can keep bitching on line how the GOPe stabbed you in the back, again.
I’m still laughing at what it must take to still claim McConnell/Ryan/Hatch et al are just driving this country into the ditch, but those same a**holes are using your little boy and you guys love it.
Keep laughing at your fellow Americans who desire something better, and laughing that the man who has done more in his life than I’m guessing you’ve done (what will your legacy be Johnnie??)is not politically savvy - yep, we need another insider - the last 50 years proved it to be true!
TRUTH ^^^^
And Cruz is deeper on the inside than Trump has ever been.
Cruz = same old song and dance
So much to cheer about, I see why that makes you happy.
Yet Cruz is the one with the egotistical vendetta that is causing a huge rift in potential voters as he plays spoiler and send out his locusts to ravage the landscape....
Bottom line though, this nonsense is assuring a Democrat win in November.
But perhaps I laid the blame at the wrong feet, as it should be the GOPe. But Cruz Is also culpable by virtue of now aligning with the GOPe.
In an appearance Sunday on "Meet the Press," Manafort was asked about his longtime friend Roger Stone's quote last week that if Cruz tries to sway Trump delegates on a second vote at the GOP convention this summer he was prepared to "disclose the hotels and the room numbers of those delegates who are directly involved."
But Manafort told "Meet the Press" it is Cruz's campaign that is using dirty tricks.
"It's not my style. It's not Donald Trump's style," Manfort said. "But it is Ted Cruz's style."
He wasn't specific on the tactics he was alleging, but did repeat moderator Chuck Todd's word "threatening," before adding, "You go to his county conventions and you see the Gastapo tactics."
He said the Trump campaign is filing several protests because the Cruz campaign is "not playing by the rules."
His real focus, though, is getting to the 1,237 delegates needed to avoid a second vote, he said. He predicted Trump will be the "presumptive nominee" by May, though he expects the race to go all the way into June.
Manafort, a veteran GOP strategist, was brought in last week in an effort to shore up Trump's efforts. He told "Meet the Press" he was not brought in by Stone, who no longer is officially a member of the campaign, but came in "a totally different way."
Despite reports of Trump team infighting for leadership, it is Donald Trump who is running the campaign, "and I'm working directly for Donald Trump," Manafort said. "But I'm working with the whole team as well.
"Yes, there's a transition. It's a natural transition," he said. "Trump was doing very well on a model that made sense. But now that the campaign has gotten to the end stages, a more traditional campaign has to take place."
I had hoped some alliance can be made with Cruz and Trump but it seems unlikely now. I cannot stomach the idea of a Democrat in the WH to continue the destruction of the Republic.
I’ve read through the thread and did not see a mention of the most egregious Trump error. There was a statewide convention without a Trump paid crew there. Volunteers only. One of Romney’s mistakes IIRC was to not spend his campaign money at the end. He had leftover resources. Trump is doing this on the cheap. That is not a Cruz mistake or sleaze. But Trump or Trump supporters are portraying this as something else.
Trump chose to lose.
Loser.
DK
Counting on Democrats to vote Republican is a strategy?
Cruz prepared ahead of time for this phase of the campaign and Trump didn't.
I think this failure of Trump to learn the process and prepare a ground game does not bode well for him managing a country.
Trump is a celebrity and used that to gain the advantage of lots of air time. He really didn’t have a ground game in place in a lot of states and has a lot of catching up to do.
Agreed but time is a commodity that cannot be bought.
DK
That is Manafort saying that, not Trump.
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