Posted on 04/15/2016 10:26:25 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
CASPER, Wyo. On Saturday morning, while his two rivals for the Republican nomination stay back east, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, will fly to this city to address the state GOP convention. The potential prize: Fourteen delegates to the national convention in Cleveland. The competition: Hard to find.
On Friday, with no explanation to either party officials or media, Donald Trump's campaign announced that Sarah Palin would cancel her scheduled speech here. Additionally, while Republicans gathered for a barbecue and fried chicken dinner, the campaign of Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, was invisible, and the Trump campaign was clearly outmatched.
The story can be simply told in the leaflets that the campaigns are issuing to the 64 people campaigning to become delegates. Trump, who performed weakly at the county conventions in March, has no explicit slate. At a table near the main hall, where pro-Trump candidate Cat Morningstar has provided her own essay about why she should go to Cleveland, Trump's campaign has provided the email of the "Wyoming team," and nothing else.
"We know how Wyoming is going to go," Trump senior adviser Paul Manafort conceded in an interview this week.
Cruz's campaign, by contrast, is buzzing with activity. His Wyoming delegate hunter Ed Buchanan could be seen busily setting up a hospitality suite the only one of its kind, a contrast with the competition in North Dakota's convention two weeks ago. At every dinner table, Cruz's campaign has provided a simple list of its preferred 14 delegates.
The most immediate competition for Cruz may not be Trump, but a campaign for a "Wyoming first" slate that would attend the convention unbound to any candidate.
But Cruz faced a similar situation in North Dakota, and got most of his preferred delegates elected. According to Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyoming, Cruz has rushed into a gap that might have otherwise been filled by the libertarian supporters of Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, and brought out the most sophisticated delegate-chasing operation Wyoming has yet seen.
Trump will lose again
Is this another caucus to send a delegate to another caucus who selects a delegate to attend a convention so that delegates can be chosen by party bigwigs?
...Cruz Still Running Circles Around Trump...
Then tell him to go to the bathroom.
Ted’s about to lose 250 delegates in the next 10 days.
Hope he enjoys Wyoming. It’s the last good news he’s going to get this election cycle.
Yes, these were standing rules made several years ago, and quite public, so public that any candidate’s team members could have prepped to research it, understood it and addressed it, going back months.
Good. Donald Trump has bigger fish to fry...
Is your position that Wyoming is ‘rigged’, or rather is it the case that it was a case of clear rules that needed to be addressed by campaign operatives starting back some months ago? I would really love to hear your sentiment on that.
Will he be like Romney, three tries and still striking out? more than likely, he is a PROFESSIONAL LAWYER POLITICIAN...NOTHING ELSE...
Wonder too if wife will stick it out? mind you, just wondering, not spreading gossip...lol
Yes. Kim Jung Un, Castro and Putin are so jealous of the America primary. America yells “have fair elections” to those three while America cheats and destroys the process.
Go, Ted, go!
Don’t the people just vote for the candidate they want? What is this about delegates?
Might be a delegate or two in there.
If the Colorado shenanigans were legal and according to the rules, then it is especially damning that the Colorado Republican establishment would consciously make rules to nullify the votes of the common voter.
In other words, they disenfranchised the voters.
More Shenanigans will hasten Cruz tanking even more and faster.
Cruz cheated in Maine, ballots went missing
In Iowa he coordinated a deception in hundreds of precincts that Carson Dropped out
He sent out voter violations.
He says Trump is pro abortions, and its a lie Trump is pro life. That is why Evangelicals vote for Trump.
Cruz has broken at least 4 of the 10 commandments, he is a POS. If his wife cant trust Ted why should we.
Ted is backed by Bush, Gramnesty, Haley, Romney, and the rest of the establishment Rinos. Ted is for sale cheap
I agree, and believe Trump is consciously picking his battles. I’m not convinced that every presidential contender has been active in every state in every primary.
I haven’t followed Wyoming closely, so I don’t even know the process there.
If it’s a caucus, I suspect it’s another case where the GOPe runs the process so tightly, that Trump couldn’t get the time of day if he spent months there exclusively.
It's obvious that Cruz is untrustworthy, and it's difficult to understand people supporting a man with no principles.
Backed by right-wing radio too
You got it. In some instances it doesn’t matter whether or not the anti-GOPe candidate wins a plurality or a majority of the vote in the precinct. because the GOPe PCO is an automatic delegate to the county, legislative district, or other convention; and the other delegates are often not formally elected, but volunteer instead and then are deemed to be elected. This sometimes results in the candidate with the most actual votes being frozen out of any or only a token delegate to represent that candidate at the convention. By the time the delegates meet at the county or other convention, the candidate with the most votes has too few delegates at the convention to prevent the GOPe delegates from voting them out of the election for the State convention. At the State Convention the delegates have already been so heavily stacked against the candidate who received the most votes at the precinct caucus, they have little or no hope of receiving enough votes to be elected for the National Convention. The whole affair begins with vote rigging and a stacked deck with the automatic delegates outweighing the actual voters, and the end result is a minority gaining control of the upstream delegates in defiance of the original popular vote at the first level precinct caucus. Then the GOPe wants to pretend it was all done fairly and by the rules as a minority overrules the plurality and/or the majority.
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