Posted on 04/11/2016 5:18:55 PM PDT by lodi90
In the race for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump would seem to be in the catbird seat. He has won the most states, the most delegates and the most votes by nearly 2 million.
He has brought out the largest crowds and is poised for huge wins in the largest states of the East, New York and Pennsylvania.
Yet, there is a growing probability that the backroom boys will steal the nomination from him at a brokered convention in Cleveland.
Over the weekend, Colorado awarded all 34 delegates to Ted Cruz. The fix had been in since August, when party officials, alarmed at Trumps popularity, decided it would be best if Colorado Republicans were not allowed to vote on the partys nominee.
After all, these poor folks might get it wrong.
In South Carolina, where Trump swept the primary, a plot is afoot for a mass desertion of Trump delegates after the first ballot.
The Republican Party in Georgia, another state Trump won, is also talking up delegate defections.
In state after state, when Trump wins, and moves on, the apparatchiks arrive to thieve delegates for Cruz.
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Colorado is one thing...Cleveland is for all the marbles...I don’t think so. Besides, it’s a moot point if Trump comes in as the only one with eight states majority of delegates AND 1,237 delegates.
No one planned for Jeb to be sidelined, but Trump did it anyway.
So Jeb dropped out.
Since he has suspended his campaign, they needed an insider to be a place holder for the delegates and that turns out to be Cruz, who will control those delegates until the Convention, then, after a few slight of hand tricks, they are slated to go back to Jeb, or maybe Mitt.
Cruz will never get to enjoy the delegates at the convention.
YES. by an ugly Canadian that has a zipper problem, whats that tell ya?
The GOPe has no integrity. They will steal or whatever it takes to stay in power.
of course he will be swindled wherever he goes. He is the Great White Hope.
Colorado made those rules before anybody got into the game and anybody could take advantage of them. Trump royally screwed up with the rules as they are. Not that any of his whiny sore losers are going to listen to the truth.
Same thing the Whigs said way back then, They lost too.
I believe Reince Priebus made that perfectly clear when he said THE PARTY chooses the nominee, and if you don’t like it, sit down.
The CO delegates were originally slated to all go for Jeb Bush. There wasnt chance in the world that they were going anywhere else.
No one planned for Jeb to be sidelined, but Trump did it anyway.
Exactly. Cruz is the benefactor of a corrupt system. Jebbie & Teddy. Two peas in a pod. Hilarious to hear the Kruz Krew carefully leaving out the fact that CO was set up for an insider as they spin furiously.
“If Jeb Bush was stealing the delegates like Cruz and his GOPe buddies are doing ... every person on this forum would be screaming about it. But because they are giving the stolen delegates to Cruz’s sheep, they are okay with it.”
Exactly right.
Voting for Cruz will not get you Cruz, it will get you Ryan.
Colorado was a test to see they could pull this off in Cleveland ...the GOPe just threw Colorado into the DIM column for the general election and Cruz is officially done ...Trump is the only hope to hold Colorado in the general ...
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