Pathetic – Ted Cruz and John Kasich Announce Joint “Never Voters Campaign” To Stop Donald Trump

The Last Refuge ^ | APRIL 25, 2016 | Sundance

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Pathetic – Ted Cruz and John Kasich Announce Joint “Never Voters Campaign” To Stop Donald Trump…

Posted on April 25, 2016 by sundance

After the complete Trump New York victory, both Ted Cruz and John Kasich were mathematically eliminated from any possibility of winning through voters. The #NeverTrump campaign shifted and rebranded itself #NeverVoters.

Last night, facing the looming probability of complete defeat on April 26th in the North East primary states of: Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland and Delaware, the Ted Cruz and John Kasich campaigns announced publicly their intents to draw their last-hope firewalls in Indiana, New Mexico and Oregon.

The most current polling of Pennsylvania looks like this:

(full pdf of results here)… and the Trump campaign has also ramped up the voter information for the unbound PA delegates (SEE HERE) turning the tide of in favor of Team Donald Trump in the Keystone State.

As a direct consequence of the growing support for candidate Trump, and with looming electoral defeat on the horizon, the Ted Cruz campaign now places all its “never voter” efforts on stopping Donald Trump from winning Indiana. However, Donald Trump is also polling ahead of Cruz in Indiana – so the Cruz campaign approach throws a Hail-Mary.

In an effort to improve fleeting chances, Team Cruz has struck a deal with the Kasich campaign. Team Kasich is to pull out of Indiana, and Team Cruz will give them free reign in New Mexico and Oregon.

Lyin' Ted and Kasich are mathematically dead and totally desperate. Their donors & special interest groups are not happy with them. Sad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 25, 2016

From the desperate campaign of Ted Cruz:

[…] “our campaign will focus its time and resources in Indiana and in turn clear the path for Gov. Kasich to compete in Oregon and New Mexico, and we would hope that allies of both campaigns would follow our lead. In other states holding their elections for the remainder of the primary season, our campaign will continue to compete vigorously to win.” (link)

The campaign of John Kasich agrees to the strategy and announces they are withdrawing from the Indiana contest and will focus their efforts on New Mexico and Oregon as requested:

 

Included in the Kasich announcement is a request to the Super-PAC’s spending on behalf of both ‘never voter’ candidates:

“We would expect independent third-party groups to do the same and honor the commitments made by the Cruz and Kasich campaigns”.

So the Cruz and Kasich campaigns are committed to each other, and both jointly committed to the ‘Never Voter’ mission. Interestingly, for Team Cruz to give up Oregon they must have internal feedback from private polling showing their chances were diminishing rapidly.

[boycott]

Trump talks about making America great again. He talks about what he can do for us.

Cruz talks about stopping Donald Trump. He really never says much about how he would be good for us.

[ghosthost]

they got their phone call from Soros and they’re doing what they were ordered to do.

[Fhios]

I predict campaign defections from Cruz’s staff. Maybe Kasich, but does kasich even have a staff?

[USS Alaska]

I'm in PA District 18 and yesterday I played golf with three new members {all demonRATs and all voting for Trump in the general election}. I had never met these guys before but I was wearing my "Make America Great Again" cap, and that started the political dialog.

They said if it's anyone but Trump they will vote for hildabutchbitch, which none could explain but I didn't press it too hard.

I do know that where I live, there are a ton of demonRATs waiting to vote for Trump, no demonRATs I've talked to would even consider Cruz.

Cruzers will claim that it proves that Cruz is more conservative that Trump, and while I agree, it also proves that Trump is the only one that can beat kankles, PIAPS, butchbitch, the MURDERER OF STEVENS. It's going to be Trump in a landslide in PA tomorrow.

[NTHockey]

I know that coordination between PACs and candidate are illegal; but collusion between candidates. How is that not illegal?

How any Cruz supporter possibly justify this is beyond me. This is politics at its worst. The people who say this is smart politics miss the point. WE DON’T WANT POLITICIANS WHO ONLY CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES.

[ZULU]

Lying Ted Cruz has just demonstrated he is unfit to be a candidate for Presudent. He is allying himself with an establishment tool and a fool who welcomes illegal aliens, supports Common Core and follows the establishment agenda, in an attempt to circumvent the will of the majority of Republican voters.

There is no way I will ever vote for lying Ted Cruz.

[Renegade]

Cruz and Kasich are Rino turds that need to be flushed.

[sphinx]

Everybody take a couple of steps back for a moment. For future reference, let's consider three ways of choosing a candidate.

Method one would be to award all delegates proportionately, based on the results in primaries. Had this been the consistent rule this year, Trump would lose a significant fraction of his current delegates, as his totals are inflated by his big haul in several winner-take-all states. This, of course, is what leaves him vulnerable if the convention goes to a second ballot. Trump's delegate lead overstates his actual support in the party. Method one would make everything proportional and eliminate this problem. But it would maximize the chance of long, bitter primaries and contested conventions.

Method two would be a universal winner take all system. Winner take all produces a quick winner. But this would maximize the chance of victory for a factional candidate in a divided field, which is of course Trump's formula this year. The downside is that a determined and united faction could nominate a candidate objectionable to the majority, if the majority doesn't coalesce in time.

Method three would be to move to a runoff system in which, if no one gets a majority, the top two go head to head. There are other variations that could be used if one were prepared to have more than one runoff round (e.g. drop the low man, or everyone below a threshold) if we were prepared for multi-round voting, which is practical in a convention or caucus but not a primary. In a runoff system, conventional wisdom is probably correct that Trump would have been trounced head to head by several (and perhaps most) of the other candidates in the field. Trump has a determined faction that has confounded early expectations by staying united in the face of innumerable statements and actions that should have been disqualifying. But he has not had majorities in most states, and he is not most people's second choice.

What we have now is a messy mixture of methods one and two. Four years from now, Trump will probably be gone, one way or the other. Based on this year's ugly process, I'd be interested in knowing what process people would favor.

[FR_addict]

https://twitter.com/21damone/status/724460456132382720

[FR_addict]

They are exploiting a huge loophole in the system. It is illegal to buy votes, even to pay a $1 for a soda. Yet, it’s legal to buy delegates and collude to subvert the will of the people.

https://twitter.com/21damone/status/724460456132382720

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Republican party mantra:

[rbg81]

I actually used to like Cruz. No more. Partnering with Kasich (who must actually be a Democrat) is a red-line for me.

[Tench_Coxe]

“Never voter” seems an appropriate name for this Cruz/Kasich stunt.

[Candor7]

Cruz and Kasich have turned into pathetic losers. Both have destroyed their political careers. There is no honor among thieves, and you can see that in both of them.

They both wasted millions of dollars in their desperation.

Who would vote either of them in the future?

Yet men like Carson and Christie know how to deal, and they are honorable in appearance.Watch history unfold in the next few months with Trump and a beginning parallel slate of very good Republican men and women for the November election.

Trump will campaign for everybody in the fall. Cruz and Kasich would insure the Republican slates loss in November across the country.

[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

Trump’s platform: Make America Great Again

Cruz’s platform: Stop Trump

[RetSignman]

Must be he found out his devout religious believe wasn't going over too well.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Ted Cruz: "I am king of voterless states!"™

John Kasich: "I should be President! I've won one state! Did you hear me? I've won ONE state!"

[Flintlock]

The present “Leadership” of the RINO party must be extirpated root and branch IF the Republic is to survive.

NOT kidding—not in the least.

[MaxistheBest]

PPP: Trump Headed For Big Wins in CT/PA/RI (Trump over 50 in all)

Ted Cruz supporters keep saying he would beat Hillary. This shows how badly he would lose PA and because of the North East #’s he would get smoked in Florida and North Carolina.

[Netz]

Survival is not ensured.

IMHO, the Republican party is a shell of an organization as we knew it say, 4 years ago.

Those pushing Trump are ushering in radical change.

Those at the top of the GOP are finished as they grasp for air on their way down. They are pumping in millions of Dollars to “save” the party while the very same ones are asphyxiating the party.

No, it's all over and the end is near.

If they stop Trump. by any means, it means that Hilliary will be the Commander & Chief and that means that Putin and the rest of the Axis of Evil will be breaking out the Champagne while America and her allies descend into the some kind of Rome burning mentality...CHAOS if Hilliary is elected, absolute chaos...