Posted on 04/04/2016 10:37:50 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Veteran political strategist Roger Stone warns GOP frontrunner Donald Trump will lose Wisconsin, but says the question remains whether or not Trump will walk away with any delegates before heading into the final stretch of primaries.
Stone joined Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily to point out that, even though Trump has been leading the pack for eight months, he has yet to seal up the GOP’s nomination and may only have a mere 100 days to take on the Clinton machine before November’s vote. Why didn’t Trump lock it down two months ago?
Stone says the nomination battle “was never going to end in March” and the Republican establishment “will never roll over.”
“And therefore you’re now shifting to a different phase in the campaign. You’re right. They need to do things differently,” Stone said.
They need to crack down and understand the process and have a strategy in each one of these individual states. They have brought on the best convention manager in the country, my ex-partner Paul Manafort. He’s enormously skilled and talented. They need to let him do what he does and I think they can get to their 1,237 number. And then they can go fight in rules and credentials, where they’re still going to try to steal it from him, in my opinion.Stone added that while he thinks Trump will lose Wisconsin, he can still win a majority of delegates in the 16 upcoming primaries.
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Ping.
Waiting for the Cruzers to start praising Roger Stone in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... LOL
He can lose it and then steal Cruz’s delegates. Isn’t that how it works now?
My wife always says: “Don’t count your chickens...”
But, even as a Trumpeteer, I think DJT will probably lose by around 5%.
But I will say this for certain, and you can bank on it: It will either be higher than 5%, exactly 5% or lower than 5%. Count on it!
Impossible.;-)
“Why didn’t Trump lock it down two months ago?”
The 24 hour, wall-to-wall NeverTrump media, that’s why.
Stone added that while he thinks Trump will lose Wisconsin, he can still win a majority of delegates in the 16 upcoming primaries.
I don’t think there’s any doubt that Trump will win a MAJORITY of the delegates. But a majority is not enough.
You’re going out on limb there aren’t ya? ;-)
Ah, not even native son, lying Ryan and Rotten Romney won Wisconsin in 2012...
Manafort is a master at this stuff.
My guess is Trump wins one CD and three delegates. Cruz is cruising for a victory.
Again, if Trump loses Wisconsin, worst case he only gets 2 districts and walks away with 6 delegates... 2 weeks later he goes into NY and trounces Cruz who at best will get a handful or two of New Yorks 95 delegates.. Trump stays way above the 55% he needs to hit 1237 and a week later on 4/26 Cruz is mathematically eliminated from being able to win the nomination. Trump will continue on to 1237.
Now, to play complete devils advocate, if this thing winds up contested, Neither Cruz, or Trump or Kasich wind up the nominee and we get some GOPe picked nominee.
Cruz and his supporters are fighting a war of the lost cause at this point.
Cruz. He is the spoiler.
Whining about rules that were in place long before Trump smacks of sore loser. These were the rules when he entered the game. Alpha Male needs to man up.
The argument is, will Trump get the nomination if he has only a plurality.
I don't remember elections before where the party took such massive steps to block the election of their own party's candidate in order to force a brokered convention.
To such an extent they knowingly are giving the Presidency to Hillary.
What they are NOT realizing is that after years of betraying voters, the voters are no longer with them. They just burned their party down to the ground.
The Bushes, Cruz, the so called leadership is shooting the GOPe right in the head dead politically.
I don't see me after decades ever wanting to vote Republican again with the current turds in control of the party shenanigans.
Like rule 40?
There is no doubt about this in my mind. The big problem is all the fraud and corruption coming from the RNC, et al.
Plus Trump is dealing with the back stabbing GOP and their various proxy agents like Kelly.
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