Kasich is working for the donors. His job is to see that neither Cruz nor Trump gets too close to 1,237.
Kasich will be in until that is assured or T or C make their number.
Bring on the floor fight!
As soon as the pledged Cruz delegate count combined with the pledged Trump delegate count exceeds the number needed for the nomination, Cruz should endorse Trump, become his VP candidate, and throw all of his delegates in with Trump thus ensuring a clear cut Trump win.
That would unite the vast majority of GOP voters.
That would deal the GOPe a crushing defeat.
That ticket would win in a landslide in November.
But those are just my thoughts on the matter.
See my 2016-0215 Primary Numbers and Analysis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3410028/posts
...the GOP Analysis section.
There are two alliances possible.
Cruz/Kaisch/Rubio. They combine delegates and campaign together.
Trump/Cruz. Game set match. Will their egos allow it?
Of course Trump could choose to grind it out with continued slash and burn tactics. There is a meeting in DC today to start a conservative party.
Cruz has to think about 2020 and 2024. Just like Reagan in 1976, Cruz can hone his interpersonal skills for the future and appeal to a broader base and build his organization.
Like he did in Alaska and Maine.
I’m keeping a list of all the Trump cheerleaders here on FR so that when, not if, Donald reverts back to his NY liberal roots, I can remind everyone who drank the Kool-Aid and made FR nearly unbearable to visit. Pro-abort - check, amnesty - check, big-government - check. Just because someone is a loud-mouthed buffoon doesn’t mean he’s good for America (although lately America is becoming the land of loud-mouth buffoons - he must be their king).
Cruz is in a race. He is the ONLY candidate to win over 50% in ANY state, and the GOP rules require 8 such simple majority wins. Trump has none. For months, many have been saying that Trump has a ceiling of about 50%, and he has only 46% of the delegates, and has never topped the 49.3% he got in MASS (and all his best numbers are in liberal states).
If Kasich gets out of the way, especially with all of the winner-take-all states remaining, Cruz can easily win enough delegates to capture the nomination before the Convention.... IF the conjecture of the Trump Ceiling is correct. If it is not, and Trump starts racking up simple majorities and a bunch of winner-take-all states, then he will have the nomination easily before July. Kasich departing is the only way we can avoid the Convention... and this is why he will not leave, despite being mathematically eliminated yesterday.
Stupid post. Why would over half the party who vehemently opposes Trump simply stand down and allow him the nomination?
Cruz is a statesman and an honorable man.
He will suspend as soon as it’s clear he either mathematical unable to gain the needed delegates or it’s unequivocally clear that Trump will.
Till then, it’s fight a worth fighting and I applaud him for fighting.
Kathy Kasich not dropping out shows that he is a man without honor.
Trump needs 57% of the remaining delegates. For him not to get them, Kasich would have to stay in
If Kasich drops out, Cruz DESTROYS Trump going forward. Even if Cruz dropped, Kasich would probably outwin Trump in the remaining contests. Trump is only helped by both of them staying in. He gets closer to 1237 if both stay in than if either drops out.
You don't understand winner-take-all rules or basic math perhaps.
If Trump continues to pull in his same numbers, Cruz can beat him by winning 53% of the remaining delegates.
This thing is a long, long way from over.
Kasich has to win 100% of the remaining 57 states.
The one who should go home NOW is Kasich, he will not win anything beyond Ohio.
Great work DO
I worked all this up just now before I saw your thread
Spot on
It’s amazing all the nonsense here today and from GOP punditry and FOX
CRAZY
TKS FOR TAKING THE TIME
Free Republic much like America apparently has a severe math deficit
And logic and reasoning...like those IQ tests where you’re asked to eliminate the patterns or analysis which doesn’t fit
Cruziacs musta banged their heads on the side that determines reason and math against their crib rails.....milk mommy milk!!!!!
Bang bang bang
this is now bizarro land
All this plotting and attack mode over an eventuality that has a tiny chance of happening
Kasich, on the other hand, knows exactly what he's doing. He knows that he can't win outright, nor is he the RNC's first choice in a brokered convention. But by working with them, Kasich could be guaranteed a job in the cabinet of whoever the RNC does nominate if it goes brokered (my money would be on Jeb or Romney).
4 years ago when it was clear only Romney could win on the first ballot, did freepers call for the other candidates to quit and coronate him? Just the opposite, I seem to remember fantasies of a “brokered convention” and Palin riding in on White Horse..
What’s different this time? I tell you what, you believe Trump when he claims to be a conservative and you didn’t believe Romney, only difference.
A second ballot is fine with me, that’s the process. I wouldn’t worry too much if I were you. Seems to me plenty of Kasich lib delegates would prefer your Trump to a real conservative, and plenty more could be bribed or threatened into supporting Trump.
“graciously congratulate Trump on a well fought victory.”
He has not been fighting “well”. Effectively perhaps but “well”. Do you really expect Cruz to say “Congratulations for fooling idiots by calling me an anchor baby and whining for a revote when you lost Iowa, well played sir!”?