Posted on 04/24/2016 3:14:24 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
The Pennsylvania numbers — Trump 49, Cruz 26, Kasich 22 — are eye-popping, but you should know the delegate rules there well enough by now to know there’s a catch. Namely, 54 of the 71 delegates are unbound regardless of what Republican voters do in the primary. In theory, Cruz could lose the popular vote by 25 points and still walk away with a majority of the state’s delegation in his pocket thanks to his delegate-wrangling operation.
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In fact, per CBS/YouGov, 68 percent of Pennsylvania Republicans say delegates should back the statewide winner. That’s a big deal given how close he’s likely to be to 1,237 when the convention begins. If you’re a Trumper, the numbers in today’s poll are exactly what you want to see to make Pennsylvania’s delegates think twice about backing Cruz.
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Go Trump!
Trump has really crossed the line this time!
It’a all over for him now!
Well PA is going to happen on Manafort’s watch. This will be his first major test and we’ll see if he’s worth the money Trump is paying him.
“The Pennsylvania numbers — Trump by 23?
And Cruz asks, “And your point is?” as he busily pursues delegate theft.
“In fact, per CBS/YouGov, 68 percent of Pennsylvania Republicans say delegates should back the statewide winner.”
They should do something to change the rules, then, shouldn’t they?
We keep letting the press help us tear each other apart over common sense actions. What a bunch of sheep we’ve become.
Indiana.....Has your view of the candidate:
Gotten better Gotten worse
Trump 25% 28%
Cruz 18% 28%
keyboard spew alert
Pennsylvania...Has your view of the candidate:
Gotten Better Gotten Worse
Trump 33% 25%
Cruz 17% 36%
I have somehow in the last few days of casual following this that this information in the MSM indicates that the MSM is conceding that Trump is well on track to getting the magic 1237 number of delegates to win the (R) nomination on the first round...
If CeeBS finds Trump leads by 5%, then he leads by at least 10%.
The MSM has been making a lot of money keeping the Cruz narrative going. But I think you are right, especially after Tuesday, they will totally switch gears.
Camp Cruz always complains about Trump getting free air time, but the past month everytime Cruz opens his mouth, it’s on CNN. I think that will change as well.
Big MO sort of blew Cruz off the highway after last Tueday.
Recall how the prior 2 weeks the media was giddy at how Cruz was derailing Trump.
Big MO blew Cruz mathematically out of the first round. Now, it seems to numbers in most of the remaining states are increasing for Trump and decreasing for Cruz.
Cruz has been his own worst enemy recently.
He responds to every interview question with something like,
‘Donald said this ...’
‘Donald said that ...’
‘Donald believes ...’
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We have listened to Hillary blaming the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and Republicans for 25 years.
We have listened to Obama blaming Bush for the last 7+ years.
We have listened to Cruz blaming Trump for the last 3 months.
We don’t need another pass-the-buck blame-gamer.
Cruz needs to stick with who HE is, what HE believes, what HE is going to do, etc. Except that it is a several delegates too late for Cruz this cycle.
But has Manafort ever dealt with outright corruption? Has he seen other candidates put out phony Trump delegate sheets or a massive campaign to elect the most “conservative” delegates without mentioning a candidate even though the robocalls and mailers are by Kasich’s super pac?
You can’t blame Manafort if this goes south because the one tactic Manafort is not employing is cheating but the other side is all in for that.
Trump is most likely going to win all 5 primaries on Tuesday. That will definitely impact the Indiana race. So, I suspect that by time the Indiana primary rolls around a week after the NE primaries, Trump’s lead will be in double digits.
Get rid of Philly and they'll recover twice as fast.
You mean Nissouri, I imagine.
I want to say I noticed MSM paying attention to Missouri, but I did not. Perhaps I was not paying close attention (almost undeniably true).
Trump leads by 23 in Pennsylvania, but do his voters know which delegates to choose? The Pennsylvanian ballot show the candidates’ names for the 17 statewide delegates. The other delegate candidates are listed without reference to which of them support which candidate. The Cruz campaign has a flyer showing which PA delegate candidates support Cruz. Have the Trump and Kasich campaigns done the same?
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