Posted on 05/11/2016 3:29:02 PM PDT by maggief
Ted Cruz isn’t giving up.
While Donald Trump dispatches three advisers to Texas’s convention in Dallas this week and makes a pitch for party unity, his team will be running up against a Cruz operation that is still maneuvering to stuff the state’s delegation with allies the senator could call on to snub the presumptive nominee.
“We have a busy weekend planned,” said a source familiar with the Cruz campaign’s plans.
Cruz is scheduled to deliver an address at the Texas convention after a week of hinting he could jump back into the presidential contest and urging activists to thwart the New Yorker’s takeover of the GOP’s policy platform. And despite dropping out of the race more than a week ago, the vanquished presidential contender has deployed at least one paid adviser to the Texas Republican convention – Tyler Norris, his state director. (Trump has three advisers: state director Joshua Jones, deputy director Eric Mahroum and Houston-area director Kayla Hensley.)
It’s not just Texas where Cruz is still playing.
The senator’s team remains active in several of the other eight state conventions selecting delegates this week – from Nebraska to Oklahoma to Nevada. Those conventions, along with party meetings in Arkansas, Florida and Wisconsin, will be selecting 389 national delegates, nearly a sixth of the entire convention.
If Cruz were still working to send the nomination fight to a contested convention, this weekend’s delegate hunt would have been the main event – the largest single delegate selection weekend of the primary season. Now, it’s become a display of Cruz’s last hardcore bastions of support and a forum for Trump to appeal for unity.
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FUTC!! Now moving towards total betrayal.
The guy has lost it...
Cruz is done, over, finished and doesn’t mean anything except to the State of Texas as their Senator...
He is no longer in the running, his lies, his attitude, his Canadian ship, his records sealed, is a lost cause as to who is going to be the next POTUS...
Those that are against Trump are for Hillary, that simple...
Jim, how can anyone still support this guy?
I’m sure he and Amanda are back at it now, it’s the pillow talk.
Ted and Heidi are at it again. Today’s email: They’ve prayed for direction, and decided that Ted will be running for a second term in the US Senate in two years. So....give whatever you can to help Cruz keep his conservative vision alive.
What a jack a**. We tried to warn people that he was scum, but, alas, they wouldn’t listen.
That’s now between him, his wife and Amanda...
Is Cruz trying to become the 21st century version of Harold Stassen?
He’s really a piece of work, isn’t he? The snake analogy is right on target.
Certifiable. Have a shrink draw up the commitment papers.
Cruz to booz !
Cruz and Romney are both suffering from some serious obsessive/compulsive mental disorder and need to institutionalized until this election year is over.
They seem to act like people in a cult. Bless their hearts. They were quick to believe his lies.
I understand he won Texas and maybe he is just trying to protect what he won, but there are states where he won zero delegates.
How can Trump attempt to unify the party when the guy you beat continues to run a shadow campaign against him?
I thought Ted’s donors ran to Hillary? Or maybe they are funding both.
Cruz should just retire and go work with Goldman Sachs
or Trent Lott’s DC Lobbying firm. Or get primaried.
Whichever comes first.
Narcissistic personality disorder.
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