Posted on 04/20/2016 12:01:45 PM PDT by dirtboy
Sen. Ted Cruz for the first time said he believes the Republican Party is headed to a contested convention.
Cruz had previously called a contested convention likely and that it seemed the party was heading in that direction. But after a disappointing third-place loss in New York Tuesday, the Texas Republican is no longer saying he plans to beat front-runner Donald Trump at the ballot box.
"We are headed to a contested convention,” Cruz said in an interview with Philadelphia talk-radio personality Chris Stigall this morning. “At this point, nobody is getting 1,237. Donald is going to talk all the time about other folks not getting to 1,237; he’s not getting there either. None of us are getting to 1,237.”
And he’s right about one thing. After the New York primary, it is now mathematically impossible for Cruz to clinch the Republican nomination using bound or pledged delegates before the July convention in Cleveland.
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You sound like a liberal: the system is the problem, Change the system and things will be better. The problem with the primary system is that it encourages a political system based on enthusiasm. The evangelist comes to town and holds an altar call. Then what happened? A few heed the call and build up the Church. The majority sink back into apathy. Then the deacons get blamed when things go wrong.
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ZotTed!
Let’s hope that doesn’t happen because her grandchildren need a grandma and because she us the weakest most corrupt and unhealthy candidate the democrats could run with
Beside her, trumps energy and honesty are going to be like a bonfire
And he’s probably the only guy running who will punch back when she hits him first
Delegates to the national convention were usually selected at state conventions whose own delegates were chosen by district conventions. Sometimes they were dominated by intrigue between political bosses who controlled delegates; the national convention was far from democratic or transparent. Progressive Era reformers looked to the primary election as a way to measure popular opinion of candidates, as opposed to the opinion of the bosses. In 1910, Oregon became the first state to establish a presidential preference primary, which requires delegates to the National Convention to support the winner of the primary at the convention. By 1912, twelve states either selected delegates in primaries, used a preferential primary, or both. By 1920 there were 20 states with primaries, but some went back, and from 1936 to 1968, 12 states used them.
The primary received its first major test in the 1912 election pitting incumbent President William Howard Taft against challengers Theodore Roosevelt and Robert La Follette. Roosevelt proved the most popular candidate, but as most primaries were non-binding "preference" shows and held in only fourteen of the-then forty-eight states, the Republican nomination went to Taft, who controlled the convention.
Seeking to boost voter turnout, New Hampshire simplified its ballot access laws in 1949. In the ensuing "beauty contest" of 1952, Republican Dwight Eisenhower demonstrated his broad voter appeal by out-polling the favored Robert A. Taft, "Mr. Republican." Also, Democrat Estes Kefauver defeated incumbent President Harry S. Truman, leading the latter to decide not to run for another term. The first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary has since become a widely-observed test of candidates' viability.
The impetus for national adoption of the binding primary election was the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention. Vice President Hubert Humphrey secured the nomination despite not winning a single primary under his own name. After this, a Democratic National Committee-commissioned panel led by Senator George McGovern – the McGovern–Fraser Commission – recommended that states adopt new rules to assure wider participation. A large number of states, faced with the need to conform to more detailed rules for the selection of national delegates, chose a presidential primary as an easier way to come into compliance with the new national Democratic Party rules. The result was that many more future delegates would be selected by a state presidential primary. The Republicans also adopted many more state presidential primaries.
“You are only doing the bidding of the GOPe now.”
What fact in the article conclusively demonstrates that?
Which is proof he doesn’t care about America or the voters, only winning, even if he has to be slimy about it. What a slimy piece of crap.
Only Cruz and his supporters are blind to that reality.
Political expedience from a rotten, filthy, slimy politician.
The day after he is mathematically eliminated from first-ballot winning...
I wonder why he changed his tune?
I know that’s how I perceive him....just as you described.
But wall Street types like nitwits.....look what they paid Hillary for a speech.
I want you to take a good, hard, and thorough look at the following and then I will ask you some questions:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3330070/posts?page=86#79
You think he is energetic and honest. No doubt he is energetic. But right now he is not trusted by the majority of the people. If he wins, it will be if she is even less trusted. But trusted or not, she may win because there are a lot of yellow-dog democrats.
Everyone, starting with Ted, down to every voter, need to realize that we had a primary season, he most probably lost, and it’s time to follow JR’s advice, pull on our big boy pants, and start to work to defeat Hillary.
He he he
Lucky they are turning out to be the newest minority group
The big tent is going to fill up with new guests just like they’ve been trying to do by pandering and caving to democrats
Gee maybe they should have embraced common sense concerns to most working Americans
Who knew?
Cruz called for Kasick to drop out since he had no chance.
That's where he lost me too. I saw he was a slick slimy weasel just like the rest of the GOPe on that night.
Yeah, name-calling. Trump has changed tactics, too, after the Wisconsin debacle he brought in a pro to run his campaign.
Cruz & Kasich are now running against “we the people” and we the people will NOT forgive and forget.
Well, bye...
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