Posted on 04/28/2016 4:08:17 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
On April 19, NBC News reported the Cruz campaign was bragging that its organizational wizardry would enable the Texan to pick up a lot of Pennsylvania's 57 unbound delegates on April 26 — delegates that were elected at the congressional district level with no indication on the ballot of their presidential candidate preferences. Indeed, Cruz's Keystone power was supposedly why he was spending the evening of April 19 in that state rather than personally witnessing his drubbing in New York that night.
"He'll be in Philly for his watch party tonight," NBC's Hallie Jackson said. "That's indicative of where he and his campaign see this race going, to Pennsylvania, where they are looking to make a play for these unbound delegates. Even if they come in a distant third, a top campaign aide tells me, they will still, they believe, pick up more than half the delegates there."
"They're looking at more than 30," she reported.
Well, as it happened, Cruz did better than a "distant third" in Pennsylvania yesterday. He was a distant second to Donald Trump with about 22 percent of the vote to Donald Trump's 57 percent and John Kasich's 19 percent. As expected, Trump won all 17 of the statewide delegates. But at the congressional district level, Cruz did not win more than half the unbound delegates, and certainly didn't win "more than 30." According to another NBC report after the primary, Cruz won two. And the big winner was the organizationally inept — or so it was thought — Mr. Trump.
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Tru dat!!!
The Donald is a quick learner.
Thanks for reinforcing a look at that good article. Pinged to the MAGA list on April 22.
More and more, when I think of Trump, I see lightning bolts touching earth. He illuminates all kinds of crap, and zaps even more.
“Folks, you have to see this article. This guy gets it.”
I read this a few days ago..I think the guy nailed it. Now you why Trump hit Hillary with the “woman card”. It wasn’t a mistake or his assumed misogyny that the MSM is making it out to be. He was waiting to use it. He’ll let the media and Hillary trash him for it, because he knows we’ll think about it in a very different way. This was his way of letting her know that he’s coming for the ladies. She only has one way to play her response and she did it without even thinking about it.
But somewhere in Clinton world, some savvy veteran campaign strategist is sitting in a corner, away from all the supporters congratulating themselves over their quick takedown of the Donald, and thinking (and knowing) that really dealing with a candidate that is 10 levels above them; breaking all the rules and winning.
Go Trump !
Excellent post, and great insight.
“...the Cruz story was that he won CO because he had a great strategy.”
Ted’s mythical ground game turned out to be nothing more than GOP-e enforcers twisting arms and breaking kneecaps to shanghai delegates for him.
“My beef with the meme, “...it’s no secret. The rules have been public for all to see.”
Yes, they’re public; but good old salt of the earth, meat and potatoes folks, who TRUST their party aparatchiks, never dreamed they were this devious and underhanded.”
Thank you, Tucker, for finally spelling out what so many of us have been trying to say for months. You’ve hit the exact right note with that explanation. It’s pitch perfect.
Oh my, does that mean we get to call Trump .. “Lyin’ Trump” .. because he’s now doing what Cruz was doing in the states .. and that’s when Trump called Cruz “Lyin’ Ted”.
I wonder if Trump is surprised that so far Ted has not called him Lyin’ Trump ..??
I think Trump owes Ted an apology.
What ?
If Cruz had an American bone in his body, he would quit.
But I guess that’s a might big If.
Do you know where I can find maps showing the number if votes by county or district? I keep hearing Trump won every county, or all except one in PA, but I can’t find a map or list of vote results by county.
Thanks!
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/primary-calendar-and-results.html?_r=0
you have to click on each individual state, and move your mouse over the counties and it will show the total votes and percentages.
Thanks!
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