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Ted Cruz Now Says 'We Are Headed to a Contested Convention'
abcnews.com ^ | 4/20/2016 | By JESSICA HOPPER PAOLA CHAVEZVERONICA STRACQUALURSI

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016rncconvention; canadian; cruz; cruzie; ejected; elections; ineligible; loser; losercruzer; sore; soreloser
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To: dirtboy

Give it up Cruz.

It’s over, you lost.


181 posted on 04/20/2016 1:13:54 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: dirtboy

Give it up Cruz.

It’s over, you lost.


182 posted on 04/20/2016 1:13:54 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: dirtboy

Ted wants the candidate to be selected behind closed smoke filled doors by the part elite. FU Ted Cruz.


183 posted on 04/20/2016 1:14:02 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: silverleaf

You still have to get these people into the Church on Sunday. After all the creaming and hollowing and speaking in tongues, they have to come to Church and put a few dollars in the collection plate to pay the fellow who fixes the leak in the roof.


184 posted on 04/20/2016 1:15:28 PM PDT by RobbyS (```JMJ)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’m afraid you’re right. I just don’t see how either Cruz or Trump win. The numbers simply don’t add up.


185 posted on 04/20/2016 1:15:36 PM PDT by Charlie Browns Gun
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To: RobbyS
"Hillary’s vote was twice that of Donald’s. Bernie got 200,000 more votes than Donald. In the general. Write NY off at the start."

Don't forget, the FBI has yet to weigh in..

186 posted on 04/20/2016 1:16:11 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: altura

“Ted is seeing the big picture.

No one can get the majority and Ted’s strategy is a contested convention.

I can’t wait.”

So you cannot wait for the party elite to select the nominee behind closed doors. That says a lot about you and none of it is good.


187 posted on 04/20/2016 1:16:17 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: RobbyS

Then you must have noticed also that Clinton received almost TEN times the number of votes Cruz did. What is your point?


188 posted on 04/20/2016 1:16:18 PM PDT by New Jersey Realist (Home of the Free Because of the Brave)
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To: RobbyS
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.

Which kind of liberal does he sound like? The liberal elite running a corrupt system, or the liberals protesting the corrupt system?

The one thing the Bernie supporters are right about is that the Crony Capitalism system is corrupt. The main problem with the leftists is that they are focusing on the "capitalism" part and not the "crony" part.
189 posted on 04/20/2016 1:16:48 PM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: Newbomb Turk

I never disliked Ted, was leery of him over his bad trade votes, but that night did it. Still can’t get that image of him out of my head selling us out to those howling mobs.


190 posted on 04/20/2016 1:17:40 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Parley Baer

Just go thru altura’ posting history. (Warning: you’ll need a bucket.)

She’s one of the Cruzlim Imams.


191 posted on 04/20/2016 1:19:07 PM PDT by datura
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To: dirtboy

President Kasich thanks Ted for helping him slay the Trump Dragon and win the nomination.


192 posted on 04/20/2016 1:19:17 PM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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To: for-q-clinton

“And each round Cruz gets more odds of getting to 1237.”

You need to put that crack pipe down.


193 posted on 04/20/2016 1:20:00 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: silverleaf; All

Yup. You nailed it. Cruz may be a scholar, but he is not a thinker nor a doer. He’s proving that he is incapable of rational thought and critical thinking.


194 posted on 04/20/2016 1:20:16 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: dirtboy

Dreams are fun I guess. Not real, but fun.


195 posted on 04/20/2016 1:20:55 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: dirtboy

I think Teddy had better drive a silver spike into his campaign, put on some pants, put on the red hat and unite the party under Donald J. Trump as our next President of the United States. Anything else and he is the enemy of the Republic who is guaranteeing a Democrat in the White House next November. Period!


196 posted on 04/20/2016 1:21:09 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Conservative Gato

Well, Teddy Roosevelt made that charge in 1912, and it wasn’t true then either. What happens with any system you choose, there are always going to be some persons who better know how to work the system better. And there are always ways to get around any set of rules. Wendell Wilkie managed to break through in 1940 ever though lime Trump, he was a businessman. And, as it turned out, a liberal.


197 posted on 04/20/2016 1:23:19 PM PDT by RobbyS (```JMJ)
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To: dirtboy

Nanny State Cruz out to protect the American people from their own choices, how special.


198 posted on 04/20/2016 1:24:35 PM PDT by niki
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Bingo!~


199 posted on 04/20/2016 1:25:54 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: Catsrus

He talks about coming together and then does this! If the man woke up he would understand only 4 states has voted for him,including his own with less than 50% . He came third in three swing must win states. Maybe 4th if you include NH.

he would never win FL here and yet this man who is doing the establishment bidding and letting his own ego get in the way is splitting the party. he he talks about unity.


200 posted on 04/20/2016 1:28:44 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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