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Top Republicans believe Paul Ryan will be nominee
Washington Post ^ | 4/4/16 | Mike Allen

Posted on 04/04/2016 6:14:42 AM PDT by Mechanicos

On the eve of the Wisconsin primaries, top Republicans are becoming increasingly vocal about their long-held belief that Speaker Paul Ryan will wind up as the nominee, perhaps on the fourth ballot at a chaotic Cleveland convention.

One of the nation’s best-wired Republicans, with an enviable prediction record for this cycle, sees a 60 percent chance of a convention deadlock and a 90 percent chance that delegates turn to Ryan — ergo, a 54 percent chance that Ryan, who’ll start the third week of July as chairman of the Republican National Convention, will end it as the nominee.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.eu ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New York; US: Texas; US: Wisconsin
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To: Mechanicos

the rise in the evangelical tide will propel him to the nomination


21 posted on 04/04/2016 6:23:45 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson was my guy but now is a Trumplican)
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To: Mechanicos

Sorry, but most of the country won’t know who he is.


22 posted on 04/04/2016 6:23:47 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Mechanicos

23 posted on 04/04/2016 6:24:44 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Ryan is a good choice for the role of Designated Loser. He’s been there before and he’ll do it with style.


Yup. Eddie Munster knows he would pi$$ off the base and lose. But they just don’t care. It’s all about control—even it it tears the Party apart.

The part he does not figure on is that they might lose the House and Senate too.


24 posted on 04/04/2016 6:25:39 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Mechanicos

A Politico article featuring an unnamed source whose accuracy is either made up or based on his say-so, as it is unverifiable, is most likely trying to seed the outcome rather predict it.

These guys were predicting John Ellis Bush, before.

I’m not worried. They don’t have a ground game, either. They won’t turn many Trump and Cruz delegates.


25 posted on 04/04/2016 6:25:46 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
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To: sickoflibs
More reason why Trump must quit now and pledge his delegates to Cruz!

I'll go for that if Trump can/will run third party. But you can't "pledge" your delegates, so losing Trump out of the race to a third party would absolutely decimate Cruz' chances at all. He would have 0% unless he could beat Kasich somehow to get to 1237.

26 posted on 04/04/2016 6:26:16 AM PDT by Religion and Politics
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To: LostPassword

They can stick their convention rules up their butt. They either come out of that convention without a clearly voter-elected nominee or I’ll just stay home. No Ryan, Bush, Kasich or whatever designated GOP shill. That’s a fact.


27 posted on 04/04/2016 6:26:56 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: A CA Guy

I’m still trying to determine the best vote in November if “they” force Ryan, Mitt, etc., as the GOP candidate.

If Trump runs on another ticket, I’ll vote that ticket. If he ends up being 100% out, then I guess the options are to (1)write him in or (2) vote Libertarian or similar. Maybe this’ll be the year the Republican party dies — with a whimper or a bang. We’ll see how that plays out. Which ever it is, good riddance.


28 posted on 04/04/2016 6:26:58 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (When Cruz aligns with Soros, Ayers, and the MSM, he's one of THEM.)
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To: TigerClaws
Cruz is being used to block Trump. He doesn’t understand he’ll NEVER be in their club.

Dewhurst WAS in the club, and Cruz came out of nowhere to beat him for the senate spot.
29 posted on 04/04/2016 6:27:02 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
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To: Mechanicos
Thanks Ted
30 posted on 04/04/2016 6:27:29 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (A vote for Ted Cruz is a vote for Paul Ryan)
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To: A CA Guy

Another epic fail in the making brought to you by the clueless Republican Party.

The arrogance of the GOP is only surpassed by its stupidity.


31 posted on 04/04/2016 6:27:45 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Gaffer

“with a clearly voter-elected”


32 posted on 04/04/2016 6:28:42 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: TigerClaws

You are EXACTLY RIGHT. Cruz is being used and will never be allowed into their little club.

And that’s exactly what the GOP is: its a club — and we’re not in it, and never will be.


33 posted on 04/04/2016 6:30:05 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Dr. Sivana

If it was the only article and only source your point would be valid but there are articles all over supporting it from ones where both Cruz and Trump are locked out of the rules committees to ones where party insiders are posing as delegates for both Cruz and Trump.

It also makes sense since Cruz is hated by the DC insider crowd they would love to back-stab him like this.


34 posted on 04/04/2016 6:30:12 AM PDT by Mechanicos (Attend a Trump Rally and get to "Punch a Commie for Mommy.")
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To: Mechanicos

He won’t get my vote.


35 posted on 04/04/2016 6:30:15 AM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: Mechanicos

If this happens I will drop my registration to independent and vote third party PLUS I will blame Cruz for being a petulant child


36 posted on 04/04/2016 6:30:27 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Mechanicos

As usual the liberal racist Washington Post has the math wrong.


37 posted on 04/04/2016 6:30:35 AM PDT by Rapscallion (You are correct. It IS a conspiracy, not a bad dream.)
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To: Mechanicos
Don't worry.

Trump and Christie know how to handle Ryan:


38 posted on 04/04/2016 6:31:19 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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To: VRWCarea51

Whose he married to and what do they do for a living again?

He got undisclosed loans/financing from where it was reported earlier?

He’s also did what in Iowa that he appears to be attempting to do with the delegates?

Mathematically Cruz is all but out.
He will not get out officially and get behind the candidate that got millions of more votes than him, which can lead Tia cake walk to the White House for Hillary.

In twenty years we will on a history channel find the role of Cruz as having been nothing more than a spoiler who faded politically after his betrayal of the American voter.


39 posted on 04/04/2016 6:31:26 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: sickoflibs

Since Cruz has far fewer delegates seems to me that Cruz should do the quitting. Spoiled brat


40 posted on 04/04/2016 6:31:46 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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