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Ted Cruz Picks Up Nebraska Delegates over No Show Donald Trump
Breitbart.com ^ | April 14, 2016 | Alex Swoyer

Posted on 04/14/2016 10:45:21 AM PDT by House Atreides

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97% can add Nebraska to his list of states where he’s out organized GOP frontrunner Donald Trump in collecting delegates.

“Party officials say they saw virtually no organization by the mogul’s campaign last week when Republicans in all 93 Nebraska counties held local conventions. Those county conventions picked 800 delegates to May’s Nebraska state convention, where 33 delegates to the national convention in Cleveland will be selected,” Politico reports. “Because there was little resistance, many county conventions became Cruz pep rallies, according to interviews with party insiders and convention attendees.”

“I didn’t see any Trump supporters,” said Washington County GOP member John Orr told Politico.

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To: mlo

Historically it has been done that way if you want your ass handed to you in the General. Which seems to be the plan here.


81 posted on 04/14/2016 12:15:56 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: GrouchoTex

>> 50 states with 50 rules <<

Plus six territories, with six different sets of rules to add to the total. So there are actually 56 sets of rules that a candidate’s staff ought to master.

(Curiously, instead of having 56 jurisdictions like the GOP, the Dhims have 57. Obama tried to visit all of them, but I understand that he couldn’t find no. 57, because it’s an abstraction that covers the whole planet. No kidding!)


82 posted on 04/14/2016 12:16:19 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: House Atreides
I don't understand what the Trump campaign thinks it's doing? Has Manafort not had time to get his act together.....or does Trump really not care about winning?

Whining about "voters" not being involved is disingenuous, at best. The people willing to invest their time/money to become part of the nomination process to become delegates, work the conventions, etc "are the people", just as much as someone who only gets off the couch long enough to pull a lever when an election cycle comes around.

This has got to be one of the craziest primary cycles in Republican history................

83 posted on 04/14/2016 12:16:52 PM PDT by TXSearcher (The anti-RINO rebellion is being won by a NY RINO.......truth IS stranger than fiction.)
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To: mlo
I was reading an article that the money people are now looking at a worse showing than under Goldwater with losing 44 States staying with Cruz and losing more house and Senators

They are thinking it's time to cut Cruz.

84 posted on 04/14/2016 12:16:56 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: Nickname
This is Trump’s, what, sixth run for President? I don’t think he ever intended for it to go this far, but it took on a life of its own. There is no way that a man serious about the office, having run so many times previously, would be so unprepared.

THIS ++++++ 100%

85 posted on 04/14/2016 12:19:25 PM PDT by builder (I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
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To: TXSearcher

Trump is running as a populist reformer. I’d think this within the plausible ambit of things that he would complain about from that viewpoint.


86 posted on 04/14/2016 12:22:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: for-q-clinton

>> In florida . . . those delegates after round 1 will change their vote <<

Don’t think so. I understand that Florida law binds the delegates for at least three or four rounds. But eventually, if the conventions keeps voting round after round, the Florida delegates would at some point be “free to choose.”

(Florida may be the only state with rules that are so restrictive. Obviously unfair to everybody except Mr. Trump, no?)


87 posted on 04/14/2016 12:22:56 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Kenny
They are “challenging many of these credentials”.

I'm asking seriously here, because I honestly don't understand...are you saying Manafort intends to challenge the credentials of the delegates that have recently gone to Cruz?

88 posted on 04/14/2016 12:25:18 PM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: House Atreides

Did people actually get to vote in Nebraska? I’ll assume the answer is yes, so why should I complain if the people were actually allowed to vote?

So go on, strut and preen. Try to provoke flamewars because it gives your life meaning.

But what I’m seeing is desperation.


89 posted on 04/14/2016 12:25:34 PM PDT by Luircin (Supervillians for Trump: We're sick of being the lesser evil!)
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To: House Atreides

Will Trump fans ever come to an understanding that there are two different things that happen?

1. Selecting who the actual people are who will be delegates and go to the national convention.

2. Determining who gets any “bound” votes of these delegates in the first ballot.

Trump has only focused on #2. If he does not lock up enough first round ballot votes, he is toast because he put no effort into #1.

And this will entirely be his own fault. It’s not cheating or stealing or bribing. It’s people showing up at these local meetings and trying to get elected to be a delegate.

It takes work. It takes local people. It takes relationships. Trump wants to run from Hannity’s set and his big rallies.


90 posted on 04/14/2016 12:25:59 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: kiryandil; for-q-clinton

>> party organizations are flipping off the ACTUAL voters <<

Yep, maybe like since about 1836, when party organizations were just getting into high gear?

I guess that’s the problem with our having “a republic instead of a democracy.”


91 posted on 04/14/2016 12:27:12 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Bushbacker1

Cruz is on the primary ballot in Nebraska. The primary is in May.

This is something different, something Trump has shown no interest in.


92 posted on 04/14/2016 12:27:37 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: House Atreides

This is one of the many reasons I don’t believe Trump really wants to be President. He’s just trying to throw a monkey wrench in the GOPs 2016 election hopes.


93 posted on 04/14/2016 12:28:43 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: SoothingDave; House Atreides

>> Trump wants to run from Hannity’s set <<

Excellent observation, but let’s not forget Mr. Trump’s phone calls to just about every network’s morning TV show, plus his madcap midnight tweeting. For those fun-filled frolics, he doesn’t even need to make the tiresome trek from Trump Tower over to the Ailes-run studios.


94 posted on 04/14/2016 12:33:04 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Brilliant

It’s becoming more apparent that his campaign has been one big troll.

Personally, I think he’s run for president over the years because it was fun. He got his ego stroked and some publicity out of it.

This time, it got away from him and now he’s stuck running and has no ground game because he never intended for it to go this far.


95 posted on 04/14/2016 12:35:26 PM PDT by Nickname
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To: scooby321
"They are thinking it's time to cut Cruz."

It's not up to them.

96 posted on 04/14/2016 12:36:38 PM PDT by mlo
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To: scooby321
They are thinking it's time to cut Cruz.

Funny, I have been reading the same thing about Trump...

97 posted on 04/14/2016 12:37:06 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Hawthorn

Universal suffrage does not a Republic make.


98 posted on 04/14/2016 12:37:36 PM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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To: The Toll
Historically it has been done that way if you want your ass handed to you in the General. Which seems to be the plan here.

The true nastycruzers can't handle that simple truth... :)

99 posted on 04/14/2016 12:38:53 PM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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To: FourtySeven
I'm asking seriously here, because I honestly don't understand...are you saying Manafort intends to challenge the credentials of the delegates that have recently gone to Cruz?

One problem with that plan is that Cruz is busy getting his people into the committee spots as well - and with the Cruz people and the RNC people holding the majority on the Credentials committee, how do you think Manafort will fare? Unless he has documented proof of crimes, I don't think it will go too far.

100 posted on 04/14/2016 12:39:58 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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