Posted on 04/16/2016 3:22:24 PM PDT by Iowa David
It's a Ted Cruz sweep in Wyoming.
Cruz won 14 of 14 Republican National Convention delegates up for grabs at the Wyoming state convention here Saturday. The crowd here was clearly in Cruz's corner, as the Texas senator was the only candidate to make the trip to Casper -- ahead of a major snowstorm -- and Sarah Palin, scheduled to speak for Trump, previously canceled.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Trump Supporters Walk Out of Georgia Delegate Fight After Party Picks Cruz Supporter...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3421714/posts
Donald Trump supporters walked out of a delegate election in Georgia Saturday to protest a vote that robbed Trump of all of his slated delegates from a district that he won in the primary.
A Cruz-Rubio alliance at the district convention in Buford, Georgia helped to knock Trump supporters out of the district’s national delegation altogether. Cruz supporters implied that Trump’s people would “embarrass” the district at the convention in Cleveland. Then things got heated.
“This morning, I attended Georgia 7th Congressional District GOP convention as a delegate and a Donald Trump supporter. We were there to elect the 3 delegates and 3 alternates to the national convention,” Ronnie Kurtz told Breitbart News. “Per the primary results, two slots were for Trump, and one was for Rubio. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97% Cruz finished third in the primary and had no delegates allotted to him…Nonetheless, the hall was stacked with Cruz delegates.”
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HOW TO BRIBE DELEGATES ... LEGALLY !!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3420371/posts
Washington Post ... 4/11/16
‘Under regulations established in the 1980s, delegates cannot take money from corporations, labor unions, federal contractors or foreign nationals. But an individual donor is permitted to give a delegate unlimited sums to support his or her efforts to get selected to go to the convention, including money to defray the costs of travel and lodging...’
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Adding this to the DEFINITIVE thread on the Cruz delegate hunt ...
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Smoking Gun — Colorado was rigged.
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Colorado Caucus Volunteers: Ballot Errors Hurt Trump Delegate Candidates
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3421308/posts?page=56#56
[In other words, it was just as rigged as Trump delegates claimed. Several links added starting at post 56 to help connect the dots.]
Trump and Manafort believe the nomination will be decided on the first ballot (actually on June 7th).
What Cruz is relying on is the Jeb "Win by Losing" plan of losing the primaries/caucuses but winning the nomination by having the GOPe stack the delegate deck for vote after the first ballot.
It isn't that Cruz has a good ground game. It's that the GOPee has planned this "Win by Losing" strategy from the get-go. Cruz is merely their last ditch candidate.
They would have done this for Jeb...and now, with Jeb having pulled out, they are putting their power behind Cruz.
If Trump reaches 1237...they lose.
Do not believe this is going to happen my FRiend. If it does, Trump deserves the nomination
The largest popular vote for any single candidate so far was in Texas where Cruz got 1,240,000 votes at 44%.
He won in Wisconsin with over 530,000 votes. In Oklahoma, Idaho, and UT, where they held regular primaries he won in each with over 100,000 vote in each.
Texas is his home state. 43% is a historically low number for a favorite son. Trump received a larger percent of the vote in FL tahn Cruz did in his home state! Romney of course influenced the Utah primary. Etc., etc.
The fact is Cruz has only won 2 of the 20 biggest electoral vote prizes. He simply isn’t competitive to Trump who will have won 13 of those states after 4/26.
GOPe is stripped naked and we see the pathetic apparatus underneath. It's funnier than hell. And you Cruzoids are bitter clingers defending the decision of the central committee of the Grand Old Communist Party of the US.
I don't care how you spin it, a state where less than a thousand people get to vote, has not conducted a free and fair election.
Wow. What planet did you just land from. The guy has 10 times more energy than anyone else in the race.
By that logic, and I agree with it, it isn't fair to either credit Cruz with a great ground game or to blame him for rigging the ground game. He's the beneficiary of a larger game.
And yet, in a state with 140,357 registered Republicans, less than a thousand showed up to vote, a turnout of a fraction of a percent.
No matter how you try to spin it, something stinks about that number, compared to average turnout in other states.
So 2/3 of the republican primary/caucus voters are also wrong???
OKAAAAAAAY...
In other words, you want the Republican Establishment firmly in control of the process of selecting the nominee.
The "Establishment" is not just the senior state boss, nor the major donors.
The Establishment runs much deeper than that. The "top leaders" wouldn't be able to get anything done without the support of the lower-level state and local party establishment, just like the Mafia Dons couldn't run anything without the lower levels seeing a benefit.
The Establishment is everyone connected to the Republican party who derives a benefit from being a "member of the club", and it runs deep. It includes the donors who expect to be able use their donor status to get "problems" fixed. It includes the lower-level officials who need the cash of the donors to pay their own salaries (and get side benefits from being the "go to" guys for getting problems fixed). It includes the campaign consultants, who get paid millions every election season. The delegates, who have to be individually "wooed", are part of the Establishment.
People haven't really realized this before, when they talked about the Establishment.
IOW, you don’t want the people to chose who should run for president...You want the GOPe establishment to always pick who you should vote for....Uh-huh...Kinda like they do in Venezuala...
(We’ll tell you who is running, you just vote for them)...
If we go that way, I would want one more reform: the candidates select the delegates, with no input from the party bosses. When a Republican voter votes for candidate X, he has a right to expect that the delegate thus selected will fairly and honestly represent HIS intent, not the intent of the party bosses.
Republican delegate count:
Trump——————744
Cruz-——————559
4/17/2016
What some call "ground game", others call "support of the GOP Establishment organization".
Though we can be sure that Manafort plans to win on the first ballot, I am curious as to what his plan B might be (and you know he has one because he is the very best at this stuff).
I am guessing that if his intel tells him he cannot attract enough delegates in a second ballot, he will cut a deal with Kasich.
Of course, the rules haven't been develop for the convention, but I would hope the Presidential nominee and the Veep can combine delegates to clear the 1237 hurdle.
As an aside, RNC member Randy Evens said last week (I heard him live on NPR) that if Trump hits 1,100, Manafort could probably round up enough unbound delegates to clear 1,237.
Exactly.
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