Cruz snaring Trump's Arizona delegates

Washington Examiner ^ | 04/04/16 | David M. Drucker

[Enlightened1]

Sen. Ted Cruz is out-hustling Donald Trump and looks set to ensure many Arizona delegates will defect to him in a convention floor fight.

The Texas senator, who ever since Iowa has played a stealthy ground game in contrast to Trump's chaotic populism, is taking steps to snatch the Republican presidential nomination from The Donald at the convention in July.

The New York businessman easily won last month's Arizona primary taking 47 percent to Cruz's 25 percent, scooping up all 58 of the state's delegates. That's nearly 5 percent of the 1,237 Trump needs for the nomination, and they're tied are to him on the first ballot.

But Cruz, exploiting deep opposition to Trump among grassroots Republicans, has been far more active in Arizona than Trump, insiders say. He's recruiting candidates for the available 55 delegate slots, that along with the other three delegate positions filled by party leaders, would be allowed to vote for him in a multi-ballot contested convention.

[Flick Lives]

Gainsaying is not an argument.

[Robert DeLong]

So Trump needs to execute his suit now.

[sanjuanbob]

Check out page 2 on the right hand side. There you’ll find the Canadian voter rolls showing Ted’s mother and father as Canadian voters.(before Ted was born) PS..Canada didn’t allow dual citizenship in those days.

https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/294908081?access_key=key-2LjtP63RUQzXuFPNKLvP&allow_share=true&escape=false&view_mode=scroll

[yuleeyahoo]

From personal observation in this primary season; I now know that qualifiers like “constitutional” and “consistent” used in conjunction with “conservative” are just GOPe buzz words.

The people who use these words to describe themselves love the status quo and are fighting hard to preserve it.

“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

— Samuel Adams

[Kegger]

Or for the delegates to honor the voters wishes in the 2nd vote and chose the nominee with the most backing from the public.

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Then you will have all candidates never surpassing the majority required.

[proust]

Ted advertised himself as Reagan, but is acting more like LBJ.

[timestax]

[Enlightened1]

Exactly!

[Mr Rogers]

“If you really believe that, then you and all you screwed up “Republican” voters...”

So what is your solution? You want someone who has FAILED to get a majority vote to be automatically made the candidate, in the name of democracy, and voting counts?

[AZHSer]

I will post the names of the AZ Delegates after we vote for them. If I know who they are supporting, I will also post that information.

[chae]

Oh for Pete’s sake.
trump and Cruz both knew the rules going in. Donald is really busy tweeting and Cruz is busy attempting to win by following the rules, and Trump may end up being screwed.

[Fundamentally Fair]

Waaaaah! Nobody is fair except Donnie!

You demonstrate my point exactly.

Thanks.

[JEDI4S]

Contested convention. That's the general idea.

1st ballot with abstentions no result.
2nd ballot all voting Cruz
3rd ballot V.P. Rubio.

Cruz/Rubio. As intended by the base in the first place.

Over 50% of the Latino/Hispanic vote.
85% + of the base vote.

PATH TO VICTORY.

Don-Don doesn't have one.
His cross-over/cross-dressing/cross-eyed voters went home to the demonrats.

Just sayin’.
Jedi.

[manc]

does the establishment want a contested convention
yes
does cruz yes

Do you want one yes
Are you voting for cruz to get that contested convention, yes

Duh that means you are helping the establishment as well as cruz is.

[proust]

Wow, you are GOP all the way. Explains a lot if you consider Trump an interloper.

[LS]

No, we think the RNC is an institution that represents the Republican Party and its voters, 7.5 million of whom have chosen their candidate and now St. Ted is trying to deviously undercut the will of the voters. Shame on him.

[LS]

Good old St. Ted, running as a Christian and overtly stealing votes. Something about coveting. . . ..

[Aquamarine]

He even used his own wife to diss Cruz’s wife in a Tweet. Wonder how Melania felt about that.

[Mr Apple]

His cross-over/cross-dressing/cross-eyed voters went home to the demonrats.

Just sayin’.
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Good one; that is funny. But....but none of our cross-over/cross-dressing/cross-eyed voters have diseases.
And the forecast for tomorrow is ...cloudy.

Just sayin'

[Ladysforest]

I agree - the names of all delegates SHOULD be published.