If all those Trump voters that didn't get to vote decide not vote in November either the Colorado Republican party will suffer an defeat of epic proportions. By their own making.
Posted on 04/13/2016 2:23:08 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Cruz's resounding win in Colorado's GOP contest this weekend provided fresh evidence that Trump's campaign is still scrambling to catch up in the delegate hunt.
But the Trump campaign's threat that they might challenge the Colorado results at the Republican National Convention showed something else: Their campaign is gearing up for battle in Cleveland -- and no error will go unnoticed.
The debate over the national delegate selection in Colorado this weekend qualified as the very definition of inside baseball.............
READ: The Colorado delegate process has to be see to be believed
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Who without you wouldn't even know Ted Cruz's name
only that was not a presidential election year, hence the local party ran it according to their rules for local races. This year is a presidential year, hence they ran it according to those rules.
And Ted Cruz is going there himself, and Sarah is likely to have the same effect as she did in Wisconsin.
The Donald may be blond but he is no fool.
If all those Trump voters that didn't get to vote decide not vote in November either the Colorado Republican party will suffer an defeat of epic proportions. By their own making.
That’s exactly what I have heard, the delegates were slated for Bush.
However, about ten days ago there was an article where the reporter questioned the possible delegates. Oddly, 2/3 had not committed to a candidate. ~100 were backing Cruz. And ~65 claimed to be backing Trump.
Now we must assume that the the 2/3 undecided potential delegates were lying party hacks for Jeb! They just flipped to Cruz as placeholders. And they blocked the Trump delegates out of the process.
Makes perfect sense.
This won’t be necessary. When Slick Teddie is mathematically eliminated on Tuesday the reason for his campaign will melt away as fast as he is fading in the next six primaries.
Let’s see him claim victory in New York when he finishes third and can’t even beat Kasich. “I’m the only one who can beat Donald Trump... blah blah blah”
“there were no presidential caucuses. “
That’s what is called a lie. My precinct sat at a table, people who wanted to talk about a specific presidential candidates had time to talk. We had people present their case for Trump, Carson and Cruz. Then we voted, Cruz won in my precinct. Then we voted who was going to the county and state assemblies to represent us. Same as it’s always been. The delegates at the state assemblies aren’t some party insiders, they are elected at their precincts and their precincts voted for which candidate their delegate is supposed to vote for. It’s a stupid system but it’s the system we’ve had ever since I’ve been involved. We have never had a binding straw poll at the caucuses.
Let me correct myself, I gave them the benefit of the doubt that the convention arena was full. Here’s the reality:
“It’s chaos. It’s a cluster #@@#. It’s the ultimate insider’s game,” said Josh Penry, a GOP operative in Denver who chaired Marco Rubio’s campaign in Colorado. “There are so many delegates in play.”......
......roughly 6,000 party activists in Colorado Springs, where 27 of the state’s 34 delegates to the Republican National Convention will be elected.”
So out of a 1,000,000 voters, 6,000 party activists chose 27 PARTY HACKS after viewing each of them for 10 seconds!
.06 % chose the delegates. (Please correct my math if it’s wrong)
SIX-TENTHS OF A PERCENTAGE OF THE COLORADO REPUBLICAN VOTERS CHOSE THE DELEGATES.
Colorado takes the prize for the most corrupt republicans to date.
Colorado GOP=Cook County DNC=Colorado GOP=Cook County DNC
Colorado republicans have had troubles for decades. They tried to fix some things and this is what they got.
bkmk
The problem is that Trump is getting outmaneuvered on getting delegates loyal to him appointed to the committees - including the Credentials committee, which will decide any challenges. If Cruz gets that committee filled with people loyal to him, any challenges to Cruz delegates will likely fail. But there may be challenges to Trump delegates from SC and NV, from what I hear.
Was it binding?
We have never had a binding straw poll at the caucuses.
No, it wasn't binding. Per the Denver post:
"Colorado will not vote for a Republican candidate for president at its 2016" and "The GOP executive committee has voted to cancel the traditional presidential preference poll after the national party changed its rules to require a state's delegates to support the candidate who wins the caucus vote."
There was no presidential caucus. I don't care what y'all gas bags were talking about at your table. It wasn't binding, there was no binding presidential caucus, and my vote was ignored.
You may be right.
If these delegates were pre-slated for Jeb, there was no way they were ever going Trumps way. From the comments made up thread #12 & my #26 it all falls into place.
There was no way that Bush was going to walk away humiliated in defeat without retribution and control. And I believe that he is still sitting on $40 million unspent contributions. And Neil Bush is with Cruz and they are all together. Certainly, we haven’t seen the last of Jeb! Even if he does not attempt to renter the race, Jeb will make Trump’s life a living hell for as long as he is able.
Jeb’s not such a ‘low energy’ guy when he’s behind the scenes.
This Colorado thing is white noise. Trump was never going to take CO and he didn’t even include those delegates in his delegate strategy. Ted Cruz is losing and engaging in desperation hail Mary type antics because he can never win the nomination and he’s getting close to hitting the mathematical wall.
I think it’s Cruz, not Cruzer.
He snookums. Trump does more work in a week than you’ve managed in Mommy’s basement in your lifetime.
FYI, we're in the America of Hillary Clinton, if you can still call it America. That's why beating her is the most important thing of all, and Cruz can't do it.
Not only that, the very RINOs who support Hillary love Cruz and hate Trump. You don't have to be in graduate school to figure out what that means.
General Patton was in the time of Capra too. He told his men to grease the treads of their tanks with the guts of the enemy. I suggest you unwrap yourself from the flag and start using the cold hard eyes of American freedom to see what is really going on here. FYI, naive is not a good thing.
That’s debatable, seeing as how I knew about the whole process and how it worked in Colorado before he did.
I haven’t lived in my parents basement in years, when did you move back in?
Notice that Cruz no longer refers to the “DC Cartel.” He stopped using that expression and argument months ago once he was bought off. The slime ball is a liar and has no ethics. He’s an Obama Jr.
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