Can’t read the whole story. But hey, if Cruz can’t beat him at the ballot box might as well cheat him out of delegates.
Cruz 2016
One Way or Another
Trump result: 41.4% 124,818 votes.
Cruz result: 37.8% 113,949 votes.
Both are now at 18 delegates each. The article below explains it (not from WSJ).
If you were ever wondering what good a professional campaign organization can do for a candidate, it’s this: it can take a state where the polls had a candidate down by 15 points on Election Day, and turn it into a state where the candidate tied for first in the delegate count. And perfectly ethically, too! The rules are the rules, and they’re perfectly reasonable ones; it’s nobody’s fault except Trump and his campaign’s if they didn’t actually read them, and Ted Cruz’s people did. Welcome to the big leagues…
Finding ballots in lost boxes.
Now we know how Romney got the nomination, paying people to do the dirty work.
My friend from LA told me about this last week. He said they were ignoring the rules to do this and it was a total fraud.
Google the article headline and the link there will allow you to read the whole article.
They each won 18 bound delegates. 5 more went to Rubio (dropped out) and 5 more are unpledged. That’s where the article speculates it’s “Cruz could get 10 more” figure. If Rubs releases his delegates all 10 are unpledged and can choose Cruz if they wish. That isn’t cheating.
And if Trump isn’t on the ball vis a vis electing his supporters to key convention committees that might be important if things get to a second ballot, it’s his own fault. The rules were not a secret. And that also isn’t cheating.