Posted on 03/28/2016 4:19:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald J. Trump, girding for a long battle over presidential delegates and a potential floor fight at the Cleveland convention, has enlisted the veteran Republican strategist Paul J. Manafort to lead his delegate-corralling efforts, according to people briefed on Mr. Trump’s plans.
Mr. Trump confirmed the hire in a brief telephone interview. “Yes,” he said, “it is true.”
Mr. Manafort, 66, is among the few political hands in either party with direct experience managing nomination fights: As a young Republican operative, he helped manage the 1976 convention floor for Gerald Ford in his showdown with Ronald Reagan, the last time Republicans entered a convention with no candidate having clinched the nomination.
He performed a similar function for Mr. Reagan in 1980, and played leading roles in the 1988 and 1996 conventions, for George H. W. Bush and Bob Dole.
Mr. Manafort has drawn attention in recent years chiefly for his work as an international political consultant, most notably as a senior adviser to former President Viktor F. Yanukovych of Ukraine, who was driven from power in 2014.
The hire is a sign that Mr. Trump is intensifying his focus on delegate wrangling as his opponents mount a tenacious effort to deny him the 1,237 delegates he would need to secure the Republican nomination. Under those circumstances, Mr. Trump’s opponents hope they can wrest that prize away from him in a contested convention....
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Leave out he helped Reagan win the delegate battle in 1980 and bush in 1988. You are a nasty liar. Of course you support fellow liar Cruz. Perhaps you can start a club. You both are experts.
“He performed a similar function for Mr. Reagan in 1980”
What election were you watching?
Yeah, Tump’s not had a good record hiring the right guy (or girl) for the job. /srac
who is he going to hire someone who has not been through the process and has no experience.
sympathetic to Cruz? You mean they will feel sorry that he got caught cheating on his wife so many times? (if true, of course). Sympathetic to another Bush clone? (this is true).
Yeah but that means nothing when he starts going into overdrive about Hillary and exposes what is REALLY is and what is REALLY going on in Washington. He is going blow peoples minds, all the low infos, everybody is going to see exactly how they’ve been getting screwed over for decades. All he is doing right now is trying to get nominated and he is making damn sure he is, because if he isn’t, Hillary will be our next President, I can absolutely guarantee you that. Get back to me November 9th. If Trump is not the nominee Hillary will be elected President no matter WHO they pick to run against her. Once he is nominated he will absolutely crush her like Godzilla stepping on an ant, she has absolutely NO hope against him and the treasonists know this which is why they are going absolutely nuts.
2016 probably won’t be either. Trump will get the 1237 needed. Luckily he only needs a little over half that are left.
Cruz already has a battalion of people doing this and they’ve been at it for months.
Do you not find it a bit curious that Sleazy Donald attacks Heidi Cruz and only threatens to attack Hillary? He keeps telling us to just wait. I am thinking he will not attack Hillary as he has too much money invested in her.
You and that “vicious truthing” again. LOL
Do you do any research what so ever or do you just troll with pathet5ic,k stupid comments and false accusation.
This morning you said the GOP has not changed the rules for a 100 years and all day you have been making wild assumptions.
I take it you did not know the same guy you are laughing at is the same guy who helped Reagan too?
WOW you seriously need to stop posting and understand what you are talking about.
All day this troll has been making wild accusations and dumb posts.
This morning the poster said that the GOP has not changed the rules in a 100 years, guess he did not know about the 2012 change of rules to help Romney and who they now want to change back to suit cruz.
Read his posts just from today. I don’t think I have ever read utter garbage on here and that beats Godgutsguns and libbylu who were recently banned.
It does not seem to be doing Cruz much good. He tried to make a grab for about 20 delegates last week and they all said no thanks.
Where was that at?
Love all these wet dreams the anti-Trumps are posting.
Good grief, is there no end to utter stupid posts with no facts.
Prove he does not want to become President and how he enjoys all of this while he could sit on his billion or what ever he has.
I’ve read his posts today and boy I would not have even expected my kids to have made such utter ridiculous statements.
We can all have our own views, but to post garbage as I have read off this troll is amounting to DU.
The biggest concern trolls are the consultants who can’t find any work because Trump is the only candidate left with any money.
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