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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They needed to do that sooner. The question is whether it is too late now.
It is, The only thing the winner gets special is 18 I think above the county delegates they win
If the GOPe steals the nomination from Trump their problems are just beginning. Trump will certainly run third party in 4 years and will have even more angry voters supporting him. Trump has worked really hard to win this and he's not going to just walk away.
Nobody will “win.”
Trump, Cruz and Kasich will each get a portion of the delegates.
Trump needs to win more than half the delegates remaining at this point to get to 1237. He will have to win an even larger proportion after tomorrow, when he loses in Wisconsin.
BTW... Did you see how I addressed the core or your argument, there, without calling you stupid? It can be done, you know...
“Waiting for the Cruzers to start praising Roger Stone in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... LOL”
Why praise Stone? It was just 7 years ago we were out there yelling, “Rove you magnificent bastard!”
Nope he needed only 9 to stay on track before he got the 12 from MO.
Worse than that.
Trump hates liars.
Trump hates wasting time especially due to others.
Trump responds to attacks.
I predict there is a lot of hidden knowledge being acquired out there by private eyes that will be used back against various morons of the GOPe.
>> But a majority is not enough <<
Right. He needs a plurality to win.
/s
As it stands now, Trump needs 52% of the remaining delegates to get to 1237.
If Trump gets 9 delegates in Wisconsin, he will need 54% of the delegates remaining at that point to get to 1237.
This is on track?
Do you mean specifically the rule that majority wins?
I think that rule has been around since Abe Lincoln's time. It's obviously obsolete and needs to be changed so as to help Mr. Trump.
Yes since there are WTA’s coming up hes expected to win easy
>> will Trump get the nomination if he has only a plurality <<
Mr. Trump says the rule needs to be changed, so that he may be nominated with only a plurality. Who are you and I to question his omniscient wisdom?
Anyway, not to worry, because Roger Stone promises “days of rage” if Mr. Trump is not nominated. That should settle the issue forthwith.
He clearly isn't a threat to the Establishment so they have supported him.
He is too conservative for them so they will drop him after using him to stop Trump from getting the needed number of delegates.
Trump let him go before his National Enquirer story that only has quotes from, you guessed it, Roger Stone.
And it backfired big-time.
Stone can do and say anything and Trump can simply say he's not part of our campaign.
He reminds me of slime-ball Steve Schmidt.
He raises a valid point. When before was it divided 17 ways Should either increase the number possible to win or allow for the fact its not just 2 people running
>> Did I say Globalist? <<
Well yes, you did say it, but you forgot Uniparty Hack, Free Traitor, Canadian Citizen, Goldman-Sachs Puppet, and Cheap Labor Expressionist.
Stone is talking about something else. He’s been discussing it for the past two weeks. His concern is that even if Trump gets a majority (i.e. 1237 +), the GOP will try some funny business in the rules committee to still deny him the nomination.
One possible angle would be to pass a rule disqualifying delegates from any state that has an open primary. Unfair as this may sound, it appears to be their strategy. That’s why all the behind the scenes seating of Trump delegates with people who are anti-Trump that has been going on the last couple of weeks. These anti-Trump delegates may be bound by state law to vote for Trump on the first ballot but being anti-Trump, they would likely approve of any new rules coming out of the rules committee, designed to deny Trump the nomination.
I never said that at all... that was said to me.
The question for me is what did Stone and Trump hope to gain by letting the Cruz campaign get its hopes up about LA and AZ.
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It must be the return of GWB style strategery.
It’s the way republicans have won the last 2 presidential elections, addition by subtraction.
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