Posted on 04/29/2016 11:39:00 AM PDT by GilGil
We are now at 1001 delegates. We will win on the first ballot and are not wasting time and effort on other ballots because the system is rigged!
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How did he get to 1001? More PA delegates?
Must be the PA delegates.
It’s all good.
~~Go Trump, GO!~~ ~~Go Trump, GO!~~ ~~Go Trump, GO!~~ ~~Go Trump, GO!~~
Probably Pennsylvania, I have him at 998
Go DT! Change in the wind (political winds)! This should be DT’s theme song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb01OwWsETs
Must be the PA delegates.
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Has nothing to do with the PA delegates.
The Fiorina announcement and the Pence endorsement pushed Trump over 1000 (sarc).
My guess is he counting both bound and merely pledged...and yeah I think most of the merely pledged kind are from PA atm.
Trump won every county in Pennsylvania, thereby winning every congressional district, all 54 delegates should vote for Trump on the first ballot. From what I’ve been reading, most of the delegates had promised their districts that they would vote for whoever won their district.
They played an awesome delegate game in Pennsylvania. I suspect Manafort had a lot to do with it.
I do not approve (not of the 1,001 but of the disinterest in other ballots). Even if Trump makes it on the first ballot, he still wants the support of the delegates. It would not be pretty if the convention nominated him and then supported another person's positions (whether Cruz's or Jeb's) thereafter. Politics is a dirty game, but Trump needs to start playing it to win in all respects.
Politics is a dirty game, but Trump needs to start playing it to win in all respects.
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If you do not think Trump is playing to win, then you have not been watching. He is playing to crush and obliterate.
Trump will have no problem getting the nomination then molding the party in his own image!
I suspect that Trump has had a much bigger, and more organized ground game all along, than anyone has suspected. He won all but 2 counties in SC, lost only 1 county in FL and TN, and 3 in GA. He won every county in PA, DE, MD, but lost a couple of towns in CT and RI. That can’t be a coincidence, there has to be some sort of organization behind that.
If you take a look at NY for example, Hillary won all the population centers, but Sanders won the overwhelming majority of the counties. Cruz won WI by winning Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay and the surrounding counties, while Trump won the majority of the counties. That’s the usual way a state is won, by winning the population centers. But, Trump has won a number of states by taking every single county or maybe just losing 1 or 2.
Trump is trying to win votes and primaries. Winning at the convention is more than that. I’ve been to many conventions, in fact this is the first in many years that I will not attend, and there are many important questions besides who will be nominated.
The most important question comes before the start when they decide on the convention rules. He should pay close attention to that set of decisions and to having delegates who will support him on that vote and not just support him on the first ballot when they are required to do so.
I am 100% certain Manafort has that more than under control!
Oops. I said “this is the first in many years that I will not attend”. That is not true. I should have said: “This is the first in many years where the nominee is not the incumbent that I will not attend”.
Am I missing something here?
California has 172 delegates, winner take all. And
Trump is ahead by 17 points. Aren’t the odds of a contested convention extremely unlikely at this point.
If he’s at a thousand, all the chatter on radio is just white noise.
If he’s at a thousand, all the chatter on radio is just white noise.
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Exactly. If the media were to say that Trump has 1001 and his odds to be nominated are 99.99% everyone would turn off the news until the actual convention.
Instead the media creates worthless drama.
Technically, California is NOT a one-shot winner take all. Think of it as 54 3-delegate-each mini-primaries. A winner COULD take all, but not likely. Trump should win between 120-140 of these, and that should be enough, even without ANY uncommitted, of which he probably has at least 50.
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