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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same I have all day and will continue to do so.
From this morning claiming the GOP has not changed the rules in a 100 years to this crap now.
Every time now I see a post with no facts and stupid insinuations they will be called out.
It was on FR.
mmmm so if he can’t get all these women, Hispanics, blacks etc then why is he winning and cruz keeps coming third in swing states?
That helps me not at all.
Re post # 50. Speaking of sleaze take a good look in the mirror. You sure are nasty.
Not my job to help you. I’m drinking wine, eating animal cookies and watching OReilly so in no mood to go on a google search right now. Just take my word for it.
Like Obamacare wouldn’t of passed anyway. I think your ire is misdirected.
Ford losing to Carter was all about Nixon. Ford was closing hard at the end.
Every time now I see a post with no facts and stupid insinuations they will be called out.’
Yea it’s getting old. All weekend it was no facts, insinuations, twitter posts, blog posts. We are so distracted with the foolishness of the campaigns. Hillary’s going to walk right in and take the presidency and then we can all sit and wonder “how did that happen”. We better get it together - fast!!
I’ve found the Cruz day shift here is pretty obtuse. The night shift is just vile. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and log on and just give up in disgust.
Hey, I'm an old-timer, I'm trying to make sure Alzheimers hasn't kicked in and we're talking about the same guy.
Note how "PC" I was being by saying NOTHING about the fact that the last guy Trump's new advisor (Manafort) put into Presidential office, got kicked out and is in hiding, since he's wanted by Interpol for charges of corruption and complicity in the deaths of dozens of protesters
Cruz f*cked up royally so now he is trying to nickel-and-dime his way into relevance by playing the pickpocket for delegates, in the vain hope that the GOP-e won't cast him aside like the pump-and-dump he is, once he's done (he hopes!) his part to stop the Donald.
In an open letter to voters supporting Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primary, the former communications director of Trump’s now-defunct Super PAC said that the former reality television star not only never expected to be the Republican nominee, much less president, but never even wanted to be.
Writing for the website xojane.com, Stephanie Cegielski said that when she was brought aboard as communications director for the Make America Great Again PAC last summer, the instructions from Trump Tower were to make sure that Trump finished a respectable second in the GOP primary. It was made clear that Trump was running not as a serious contender, but as a “protest” candidate.
So when did Trump have a PAC? Some time after he announced, some were started using his name, but he quickly disavowed them, used no $ from them, and ordered them to stop using his name. So why should we believe this person? If this is accurate, Trump has lied prodigiously. If not true, this person (”Cegielski, now an adjunct professor at New York University and the owner of a communications firm”) is lying prodigiously and obviously doing so at someone’s behest. And she is “now” an adjunct prof, when did that start? Usually prof jobs don’t start in the middle of the year. What’s the time line and all that?
Ouch, that’s going to leave a mark!
I’d like to know how many cases Levin has won with his ‘little Landmark legal foundation’. He boasts about taking on the EPA and teachers union and I still never read or hear of any wins.
So sick of lawyers - they are schooled in doublespeak.
Read it too fast - didn’t realize it was a tweet from 10/15, still funny nonetheless.
Lol, we just can’t predict what angle they’ll try next. Normal people don’t think like these cave dwellers.
Please tell me about how Trump “attacked” Mrs Cruz.
Dude, really? How many times are you going to post this bovine feces?
Trump never did, only defended himself when the Cruznadians went after his wife. The poster is a disingenuous sack of crap.
And Trump sella out to the establishment! Hires insider to manage the convention....old hand who worked for Ford, Bush 1 and even Bob Dole!!!
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