Posted on 04/11/2016 5:43:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump’s organizational problems have gone from bad to worse to flat-out embarrassing. Here’s Politico with the play-by-play from this weekend’s Colorado GOP convention, the latest scene of Trump’s delegate-securing failure:
Trump’s last-minute organizing effort did not go well. The leaflet his campaign handed out listed a slate of 26 delegates. But in many cases the numbers indicating their ballot position — more than 600 delegates [were] running for 13 slots — were off, meaning that Trump’s team was mistakenly directing votes toward other candidates’ delegates.
When the balloting results were announced Saturday evening, [Ted] Cruz picked up the 13 statewide at-large delegates chosen during Saturday’s convention, with the final three appointed automatically by the Colorado Republican Party, giving him all 34 of Colorado's elected delegates (Trump did win six of the 34 alternate spots).
Unlike in most other states, Republicans in Colorado scrapped plans for a more traditional primary or caucus to award its delegates to this summer’s national convention in Cleveland. Instead, the state GOP selected three delegates from each of the state’s seven congressional districts at individual contests in the days leading up to the state convention, and then the remaining 13 delegates at the statewide event this past weekend. It was a rather convoluted process that favored campaigns that understood the rules and that had the ground game necessary to take advantage of them—or, put another way, not the Trump campaign.
At the first two district-level contests, the billionaire’s team showed up without an approved list of delegates to pass out to attendees, leaving supporters unsure of whom to back. And then at last Thursday’s contest, two of the three delegates on the Trump campaign’s list weren’t actually on the official ballot since they failed to pay the necessary registration fees....
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President Kasich. Get used to it.
Posting from Slate?Really?
President Kasich. Get used to it.
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More like President Hillary.
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Is Slate forbidden here? If so, why did it let me post it?
2DV.. Your plan to install Ryan is working perfectly.
Or President Ryno. That is looking more and more likely.
Won’t that be nice? The GOPe will control the House, Senate and Presidency.
Not forbidden,just a really,really left wing crap source.
Slate, Really, I love Slate they are as credible as Rush, Levin or Sowell, oh wait, These are Different Times.
After posting from the National Enquirer became all the vogue with the tRumpsers, posting from Slate is childs play.
Trump knew what the rules were last year. He said so in his presser this morning. Trump is using the bomb the Colorado GOP gave him to blow the corruption there sky high. I think Trump planned it that way. He knew the GOP elitist rules in Colorado. A good warrior chooses the battle - and when it’s not winnable you do an end run. That is what Trump is doing and it’s working perfectly. Look what’s happening on twitter, on facebook, here, on Drudge, and in the pressers.
It’s working, don’t kid yourself. Be objective and observe. The firestorm over Colorado is just starting. Trump reaches 7 million on twitter and another 7 on facebook. With retweets and shares he can reach 10 million in minutes. And that is exactly what he’s been doing. For the traditionalists Trumps doing pressers. Drudge has had two front page articles on the corruption today.
You cannot pull a Colorado and get by with it in the information age. You are livin’ in the past if you think you can.
Colorado was a bed built for Jeb, Cruz just happened to fall into it - wildly fornicating and fluffling every establishment elitist he can get close to. The exact same thing happened on Wisconsin. The “only principled candidate in the race” has left the race never to return, “A Time For Truth” has defaulted to “A Time For Status Quo Gutter Politics”.
I’d like a refund on my copy of the book. Ted will wish he had never seen Colorado before this is over.
I don’t like either one.Seems like people have lost their bearing,I hope it’s just temporary.
Keep pimping the liberal outlets. The most-preferred media outlet of liberals, according to Pew’s study, is Slate.
-—more than 600 delegates [were] running for 13 slots — were off, meaning that Trump’s team was mistakenly directing votes toward other candidates’ delegates.-—
Amazing how that is somehow Cruz fault...
Cruz and his GOPe comdrades rigged the game, much easier to win that way. Cruz is the new Jeb.
Good God, you fraud, give it a rest!
Someone just posted a Trump-positive article from MSNBC.
FR front page articles with Trump in the title right now - 14
FR front page articles with Cruz in the title right now - 2
LOL!!
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