Posted on 03/19/2016 5:35:52 PM PDT by Iowa David
Latest Poll Cruz 53% Kasich 29% Trump 11%
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Perhaps he’s on Trump’s payroll. Just saying...
I would estimate the Best Hughes endorsement is worth 1% of Trump’s 11%. But that’s just a guess.
Well there is that crazy little link I provided.
Its just not the case.
Attacking on issues and policy is not the same as the CONSTANT personal attacks.
Trump wont be able to clench until as least June. I also saw that PA delegates are unbound.
With the carnage he has left inside the party, he will have a hard time on the second ballot.
For example, Nikki Haley has endorsed Cruz. This could mean LOTS of delegates on the second ballot.
Someone explained to me what I hadn’t realized.
why would Cruz be more appetizing to Kasich voters than trump?
maybe they’ll split or stay home
Nikki Haley the Indian endorsed Cruz the Canadian. Nice.
Cruz staying in until Trump reaches 1237 serves no purpose, other than to keep you from having to face the reality that your candidate lost.
Cruz is not going to win Arizona. He won't win Wisconsin, and he certainly won't win New York. Every contest that goes by that Cruz loses takes away another little chunk of his influence.
If he decides to stay in past Wisconsin or New York, he'll simply have nothing to offer for dropping out. He'll just be doing damage to himself. Look, Rubio stayed in way too long, and now has no career left. Is that what you want for Cruz? Because every day he stays in the race to play spoiler hurts him more and more.
This is quite possibly one of the most arrogant posts I have ever read in this Cruz/Trump discussion.
First of all how does one go incognito to a rally. Don’t you just show up? Didn’t know there was a dress code.
Then you make the sweeping statement that these poor stupid Cruz supporters don’t even know who or why they are voting. Those poor helpless bun clad women. So sad they are just so darn ignorant.
This kind of character assassination is offensive and patently false.
Why don’t you make the claims that Trump’s ever changing positions are superior to Cruz rather than making rude statements about his supporters.
That’s better than voting for Trump because you actually fell for his non-stop door-to-door-salesman BS about what he claims his positions are at any given moment in time.
Nikki was born in this country. Why does her race matter unless you’re an out-and-out racist?
The woman didn’t even know what Trump does for a living and then asked if the buildings were still standing.
You call that well informed???
Cruz isn’t hurting himself at all. He will easily win reelection in Texas if that’s what he wants. Rubio ruined his career not by staying in this race, but by being such a bad Senator he gave up running for reelection long ago.
Your choices, therefore, are Trump, or some form of Ryan, Romney, Bush, and Kasich.
You're missing half of the game. Just as the GoP-e is using Cruz, Cruz is using the GOP-e.
Cruz and the establishment share an objective -- holding Trump to less than a majority on the 1st ballot.
The GOP-e will then dump Cruz...and advance their own candidate (Ryan?). Cruz will then dump the GOP-e...and unite with Trump to crush the establishment candidate on the 2nd ballot.
Finally, he'll get what he's after -- a head-to-head showdown with Trump on the 3rd ballot.
Fact of the matter is that, if Cruz' and Trump's positions were reversed, Trump would be following the very same strategy.
I would not be so sure about Wisconsin.
Cruz has every reason to rack up delegates like Reagan did in 1976.
Also, if Trump runs out of gas , Cruz would be likely to win the second ballot, since the party is unifying behind him.
if true, it means Cruz’s ‘over 50%’ means nothing
case#1
Cruz gets 53%, Trump gets 11%.
Trump gets zero delegates
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case#2
Cruz gets 49%, Trump gets 11%
Trump gets zero delegates
Your choices, therefore, are Trump, or some form of Ryan, Romney, Bush, and Kasich.
You're missing half of the game. Just as the GoP-e is using Cruz, Cruz is using the GOP-e.
Cruz and the establishment share an objective -- holding Trump to less than a majority on the 1st ballot.
The GOP-e will then dump Cruz...and advance their own candidate (Ryan?). Cruz will then dump the GOP-e...and unite with Trump to crush the establishment candidate on the 2nd ballot.
Finally, he'll get what he's after -- a head-to-head showdown with Trump on the 3rd ballot.
Fact of the matter is that, if Cruz' and Trump's positions were reversed, Trump would be following the very same strategy.
Do you know the difference between race and nationality?
Not wanting a Canadian citizen to be president of the US - that’s racist in your mind? LOL
That's not true. Utah has a rule that if only 2 candidates get over 15% of the vote, the vote is proportional.
If Cruz gets 49%, Kasich gets 40% and Trump gets 11%, Cruz would likely take 22 delegates (19+3 RNC), Kasich 15 and Trump the other 3. (+/- a delegate or two depending on the rounding rules/RNC apportionment).
At the end of the night, Trump would get about 60 delegates, Cruz 22, Kasich 15. Cruz would fall even further behind Trump in the overall vote. So Kasich matters.
I do, you don’t. Better luck next time.
I will agree that Trump is a good salesman. Having been in business I think that’s a good thing.
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