Posted on 02/23/2016 3:52:04 PM PST by RoosterRedux
This state that has long embraced its reputation as the Wild West of politics is expected to embrace anti-establishment candidate Donald Trump in a blowout in the Nevada Republican caucuses on Tuesday night.
In a state where only 33,000 of the state's 400,000 GOP voters turned out to caucus in 2012 -- a mere 7% -- the campaigns of Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and one-time candidate Jeb Bush got organized early, snapping up talented operatives and key endorsements, while beginning caucus trainings last fall in the hopes that a strong organization could overcome Trump's momentum.
But Trump appears to have steamrolled through all of that, dominating not just Nevada's unreliable polls, but capturing the excitement and buzz in the race with his visits here.
In interviews with dozens of Republican voters across the state over the last week, many said without hesitation that they were standing firmly with Trump and had given little thought to the other Republican candidates.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I think one of those reporters is at Palo Verde High School in Las Vegas.
A Rubio supporter is claiming that one of the ballot collecters is wearing Trump campaign gear.
https://twitter.com/elainaplott/status/702312322849583104
Good for you. I don’t blame you.
I don’t care when they are run, as long as the process is above reproach.
You probably fee the same way.
I wouldn’t be surprised in Las Vegas. I’m surprised they would allow someone in with Trump gear but at my polling place there was a couple with a dog with Cruz stickers all over its coat.
Yes, it doesn’t matter when it is. What matters is that people can vote. With the caucus many cannot. Our primaries were 7am to 7pm, people could come on the way to work or after work very easily. How many can come at 5pm on a Tuesday night.
Plus, fraud is now rampant. Paper ballots instead of our machines, cardboard ballot boxes. We hate it.
Thank you for the link.
Yes that does sound screwed up. Sorry Reid was able to get his grubby little fingers on your process.
You have my sympathy.
Oh great. Just what we need.
Now if Trump wins, they will claim it was tainted.
Another clown show tweet. If true, a five year old could run a better primary/caucus than Nevada.
Per Scott Shied, Bush director: Palo Verde precinct 3382, person looking at ballots before decided whether to put them *in* the envelope.
https://twitter.com/elainaplott/status/702318642101223424
Shied said multiple ballots put *under* the envelope. He approached ballot counter, she said: “I will put them in in a moment.”
https://twitter.com/elainaplott/status/702318914764558337
“Harry Reid foisted this on us so we could be “first in the west”.”
Wouldn’t your governor and state reps be the ones to make a change like that?
(I know very little about the caucus process.)
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Yes they are the ones that did it, it was Harry’s idea and pushing.
“Didn’t Dershowitz say Cruz was “off the charts brilliant”?”
So was Jimmy Carter
Did not know that about Carter but he was 60/820 Annapolis Class of 46.
Sorry, I don’t watch videos, I read.
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No I mean the Establishment NWO guy Trump.
The rounder that has bought off every official that was in the way of his will. Clinton lite.
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Yeah, Cruz, that guy. The lifetime government guy. I knew you were talking about him. The guy whose campaign is over.
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