Posted on 04/04/2016 8:10:36 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Here’s a simple question that desperately needs an answer.
Donald Trump won the Arizona primary in a landslide, 47.1 percent to Ted Cruz’s 24.9 percent, giving the GOP front-runner all 58 of that winner-take-all state’s delegates.
Right now, the Cruz campaign is engaged in a “furious” on-the-ground campaign in Arizona – and in other states won by Trump, including Louisiana, Georgia and Tennessee – to convert Trump delegates into Cruz delegates on a second ballot, should there be a contested GOP convention this summer.
The question is: Is this moral?
Trump calls it “crooked as hell.” But let’s back up a little.
As the Washington Examiner reported Monday, in a story headlined “Cruz snaring Trump’s Arizona delegates” and posted in the lead position of the Drudge Report:
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 to him on the first ballot.
But Cruz, exploiting deep opposition to Trump among grass-roots 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.
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But it won't matter one whit, since Trump SHALL have at the least, 1237 delegates and Teddy won't come close to that.
This “rulebook” you say Cruz is following allowing Cruz to do these under-handed shenanigans does not coincide with the Christian rule book that should be written on our hearts.
He’s a degenerate scumbag.
Lawyers are worse than mooselimbs.
Is it moral that Donald Trump won all the Arizona delegates when he did not even win a majority? Clearly it is legal but is it moral? The moral thing to do is to proportionalize his delegates.
No, its corrupt just like Nixon Cruz “I am not a thief”
Yes he does. In fact he gives a flip about what 52.9% of the people want!
“Get in the game Trumpsters”
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Apparently, Ted the thief is already in the game.
Cruz should want the WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
Clearly, he doesn’t give a flip about what the people want.
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He’s a phony, he’s all about self, and he’ll do or say anything to get what he wants.
If he pulls the charade off, he’ll owe a lot of backers a lot of favors.
Our Founding Father’s didn’t trust the will of the people. Seeing the madness that has overtaken us now, I marvel at their foresight and wisdom.
What about the will of the people that aren't voting for Trump? I ask this because each state has its own say. And other than Utah, there's been no state where ANY candidate has taken over 50% of the vote.
That suggest that a mere plurality exists when voting - not a majority. Now that it's mostly head to head with Kasich doing his favorite, "can't we all get along," speech over there, we're going to see. And it doesn't look like any candidate will get that majority in Wisconsin either.
Our Founding Father’s didn’t trust the will of the people. Seeing the madness that has overtaken us now, I marvel at their foresight and wisdom.
..... NO!!! .... Only the Trump campaign is moral ..... Donald Trump can prove it .... So shut up!
“From the article...”I am troubled by this. The Cruz campaign is going from state to state, after each primary election has been decided by voters, in efforts to turn Trump delegates into Cruz delegates: Do you believe this is right?”
NO. Why is Cruz stealing like this???
Yet he didn’t know or have staffers that knew the different rules of the 50 states? Cruz, who is not a billionaire or a tycoon, did.
Just look at right now. I suspect Cruz’s internal polls were bad so he did what Ted Cruz does, and turned to dirty tricks, enlisting the help of the radio talk shows and pollsters friendly to the GOP to influence public opinion. We shall see, but consider the following:
“An American Research Group survey turns past polling on its head. It said Trump leads rival Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, 42 percent – 32 percent, with Ohio Gov, John Kasich at 23 percent. Other polls had shown Cruz with a similar-sized lead.”
Did ARG not get the memo?
If Trump does win WI, heads will be exploding but not liberal ones - it will be the self-proclaimed conservative wizards of smart who have been telling us how Cruz has run the most competent campaign of all time.
Until Donald Trump came along and rewrote the rules.
[[He’s playing by the rulebook. I apologize that my candidate is smarter than yours.]]
Lol- somehow i expect that hte apology will not be accepted-
That process TOTALLY does away with the will of the people and gives it to the Establishment. The GOP are scamming all of us!
Yep the founding fathers would choose Cruz.. lol.. </s>
From the article...”The Gateway Pundit blog gives the same story a more harshly partisan slant, headlining its post, “Dirty Ted Cruz Moves to Snatch Up Trump’s AZ Delegates – Supporters Cheer Sleazy Move.”
Why are Cruz’s supporters cheering these sleazy moves???
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