Posted on 04/18/2016 2:51:08 AM PDT by markomalley
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told reporters at a press conference Sunday in Staten Island that the Republican primary nomination process is “rigged” against him and he refuses to play by the rules established by GOP state party committees he deems unfair.
“I don’t want to play the rule game, because I’ll tell you what, we live in a democracy and it’s all about getting the bosses out. The bosses are picking. Now I’m winning, you will say. I’m wining by 200 delegates. I’m winning, more importantly in my opinion, I’m winning by 2 million votes. In other words I’ve gotten more than 2 million votes,” Trump said, when asked why he does not work within the rules different state contests have.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz swept up all of Wyoming’s available delegates at the state’s GOP convention Saturday night. Although Wyoming Republican voters caucused on March 12 at local conventions to begin the delegate election process, Trump and his supporters called it a voter-less primary.
A similar situation occurred in Colorado where Cruz delegates won all the open slots to go to the convention through a process that began at local caucuses on March 1.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus fired back at Trump this week for accusing the party of having a rigged system.
New York Republican Rep. Peter King told Fox News earlier on Sunday that the “system is what it is.” Ohio Gov. John Kasich as well as Cruz could call the New York primary unfair too, should Trump win at least 50 percent of the GOP vote statewide and receive at least 50 percent of the Republican votes in most or all of the Empire State’s congressional districts.
“He may get 53 or 54 percent of the vote, but if he gets 100 percent of the delegates, now, Cruz or Kasich could say, ‘That’s unfair.’ The very nature of a nominating process is always — Iowa has caucuses. Some have open primaries. Others just have local conventions. That’s just the way it’s been and it’s not meant to be easy. Whatever it is, I don’t see it as an attempt to stop Donald Trump,” King said. “These rules have been in effect in one way or another, with their idiosyncracies, for one hundred years. And in some cases, others get changed every few years, but that’s part of running for president. you have to learn how to navigate the minefields,” he added.
While we're at it, get rid of the electoral college!
Go Trump!!!!
These “rules” have about as much legitimacy as the rules keeping the Castro regime in power.
Reince can shove his rules where the sun don’t shine.
There are a lot of wannabe dictators walking in the halls of the GOP establishment and Lying Ted is one of them.
Donald Trump is about to prove something that I have known for a long time.
We don’t live in a democracy.
Period.
We inhabit a place where the most money, the biggest corporations, the biggest spenders, and the most influence call the shots.
Our republic is a democracy btw.
How many times does Trump get to falsely claim we’re a democracy before someone publicly corrects him that the USA is a republic?
Why doesn’t Cruz mock him for this ignorance about our system of government?
A republic, is by definition, not a democracy.
a Republic, by definition, is not a monarchy. and our non-monarchy government is a democracy.
We don't need a representative republic. We need a direct democracy! Let the people rule!
Who needs a stupid constitutional system when we have Twitter to let us know what the People want!
That's what will make America Great Again!
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-difference-between-a-republic-and-a-democracy.htm#didyouknowout
“By definition, a republic is a representative form of government that is ruled according to a charter, or constitution, and a democracy is a government that is ruled according to the will of the majority. Although these forms of government are often confused, they are quite different. The main difference between a republic and a democracy is the charter or constitution that limits power in a republic, often to protect the individual’s rights against the desires of the majority. In a true democracy, the majority rules in all cases, regardless of any consequences for individuals or for those who are not in the majority on an issue.”
Is RNC Chairman Reince Priebus acknowledging that the Republicans have a rigged system? And that "everybody" knew it?
Looks corrupt to me. Why would the RNC set up a rigged system? Is it about money? What is the difference between the RNC rigged system and Bernie Sanders hired protester thugs? ...certainly following the money in both cases.
1.) a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
2. any body of persons viewed as a commonwealth.
3. a state in which the head of government is not a monarch or other hereditary head of state.
>“By definition, a republic is a representative form of government that is ruled according to a charter, or constitution, and a democracy is a government that is ruled according to the will of the majority. Although these forms of government are often confused, they are quite different. The main difference between a republic and a democracy is the charter or constitution that limits power in a republic, often to protect the individual’s rights against the desires of the majority. In a true democracy, the majority rules in all cases, regardless of any consequences for individuals or for those who are not in the majority on an issue.”
Absolutely correct and that’s also totally pointless. We all grew up being told we’re a democracy so that’s what 95% of the public thinks.
Dictionary.com is not the place to get your education on political philosophy.
A republic and a democracy are two different things, and the United States of America is a republic, not a democracy. A
This republic was never a monarchy, but it sure as heck was not founded as a democracy. When the U.S. Constitution was written, states had their own rules for selecting public officials. Most U.S. Senators, for example, were elected by their state legislatures or appointed by the governors of their states.
How many times are freepers going to trot out the false claim that we aren’t a democracy because we’re a republic? A republic is a non-monarchy and our particular non-monarchial form of government is a constitutional republic and a representative democracy.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/republic
republic
Full Definition of republic from Meriam-Webster's dictionary:
1 a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government c : a usually specified republican government of a political unit
If Trump wins 51% of the vote, he’ll get 100% of the delegates. That’s the rules.
Wait....
a republican form of government is simply a non-monarchy and it is almost always a democracy of some form.
What the out-of-touch party elite may not be understanding is just how fed up voters are with the rigged system. It's been going on at least since Quayle used an alternate spelling of potatoE.
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