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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Lyin Donald! vs. Lion Ted!
Nope, Teddy ONLY cares about himself !
Before you say it is “immoral” you should at least be able to argue how and why you consider it so.
To me, it is moral. The delegates are awarded to the winner, but that isn’t in perpetuity or there would never be a candidate who wins the majority and therefore the primary.
Whomever wins the nomination must be able to lead people and pull in votes or they are lame ducks before sitting in the oval office.
Proportionalize.....or wine and dine.....or buy them off?
They are supposed to represent the voters, not their own wallets.
The filth oozes out of every pore of Ted Cruz.
Each campaign will try to use those rules to their advantage, if they're smart.
All three remaining candidates are assiduously courting those unbound delegates, and their success could determine whether Trump, who has a wide lead over Cruz in the delegate count, sews up the nomination on the first ballot in Cleveland, or whether the convention turns into a contested free-for-all.
For Trump, maximizing his pledged delegates as the remaining states cast their primary votes could make all the difference. Despite his lead, most analysts calculate he’ll end up just shy of the 1,237 delegates, based on his prior performance in earlier contests and the electoral profiles of the states still to come in the campaign.
Barry Bennett, a former Ben Carson operative now in charge of Trump’s delegate strategy, told NBC News that the campaign has already rolled out a massive effort to reach unpledged delegates and secure commitments from them in advance.
“You’ve got 40 days between the last primary and the convention to go woo the appropriate number of unbound delegates,” Bennett said. “You still have a chance to put together 50 or 75 delegates to win on the first ballot. That’s Phase One.”
Trump Holds Delegate Lead, but Cruz Maneuvers to Outflank Him
Unlike your strip club/casino owner?
No
Much like their leader they are self righteous hypocrites
LYIN’ TEDDY V the PATRIOT TRUMP.
He’s not man, he’s a political manipulator.
He has obertly screwed people including Carson and now he’s trying to screw Trump.
The question is moral
Not legal
You can marvel if a lot of people don’t vote if they feel the nomination was stolen.
And his supporters. Just look at what one posted up thread a bit.
Too bad. You’re full of it.
What about the will of the people that are voting for Trump?
“...Cruz, exploiting deep opposition to Trump among grass-roots Republicans,...”
What the hell does that mean? Trump won 2:1 over Cruz in AZ, but ‘grass roots Republicans’ oppose him? WHO voted for him in such disproportionate numbers if not the grass-roots. Obviously not the GOPe.
How about the votes of the people? Do you believe they are secondary to the will of 2500 delegates?
Of this you can be sure: If Trump goes into the convention with less than 1,237...but a clear plurality...and does not win the nomination, all of his supporters will follow him to a 3rd party run.
And will vote against the Republican Candidate in ALL down-ballot races.
Tens of millions of them.
And you can take that to the bank.
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