Posted on 06/21/2016 8:19:16 AM PDT by Taxman
Betrayed! 1,000 delegates to ditch Trump?
Just when it appeared that the movement to dump Donald Trump as the GOP presidential candidate was defeated, it looks like it has come roaring back.
And this time, it may have more momentum than ever.
As many as 1,000 delegates to the Republican National Convention may have interest in a new push to ditch Trump and allow delegates to choose another candidate.
The new movement is calling itself “Free the Delegates,” and it’s rallying like-minded Republicans to prepare for a fight.
But critics argue that it is a petulant coup that would set aside the will of millions of voters who backed Trump.
According to insiders, the Free the Delegates movement plans to organize thousands of delegates in a plot to depose Trump with a convention rules change.
“Roughly 30 delegates from 15 states participated in a conference call Thursday night,” Yahoo! reported Monday. “Since then, however, [their] campaign appears to have picked up steam. A second conference call on Sunday night attracted an alleged 1,000 participants.”
According to The Washington Post, “The group is led by delegates seeking to block Trump at the GOP convention next month in Cleveland by changing party rules so that they can vote however they want — instead of in line with the results of state caucuses and primaries. It is quickly emerging as the most organized effort to stop Trump and coincides with his declining poll numbers.”
The Free the Delegates movement is also reportedly raising money for staff and a legal defense fund.
This establishment threat to Trump’s nomination has grown increasingly credible. The Associated Press has reported that more and more Republicans in Congress are saying they will not attend the party convention and are not endorsing his candidacy.
Trump wondered aloud Saturday who his opponents would pick as a replacement, a problem that has plagued the “Never Trump” movement for months.
“Who are they going to pick? I beat everybody. But I don’t mean beat — I beat the hell out of them,” he said.
Tell us what you think! Would you support another GOP candidate if Trump was dropped at the Republican National Convention?
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
This happens, the GOP will vaporize.
Don’t think a rule change like this has a majority vote for change in any respect. Just won’t happen.
Lot to do about nothing. So 1000 vote cast their vote for some other candidate.
How many cast their ballot for some other candidate in the past conventions?
“What happens to America if the “Dump Trump” movement at the Republican Convention works?”
Cruz pledges his 600 delegates to Trump putting him over the top again. Then he tells the RINO’s that payback is a bitch. A SCOTUS nomination is the trade off.
The down-ticket GOP will suffer incredibly.
All will lose. The GOP will lose both house and senate.
And THAT is the plan of Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton.
Carried out by their subservient whore known as Ryan.
If this happens I hope riots ensue.
“It’s time to get rid of the entire primary system. What a farce.”
And just WTF does that have to do with the problem at hand? What needs to happen is the replacement of the “Repubican Party” with one that’s run by decent people who want to try and govern this country for the benefit of the citizens and not a handful of billionaires who regard America as their private slave labor camp.
It’s an editorial - I never heard of The Horn.
an alleged 1,000 participants.”
One notes: There were only 30 delegates in the first call,
then there were 1,000 PARTICIPANTS in the second.
Who knows how many delegates were in the second call, 35+?
Getting awfully tired of all this propaganda from the media.
The current crop of “Republican Elite’s” are hell bent upon electing Hillary.
The Horn News?
> According to The Washington Post
As WaPo is openly campaigning against Trump, it should be treated as the contemptible and interested partisan source it is.
If it happens, and I said “if”, it will prove to me that our votes haven’t counted in decades, if ever. And I will have been fooled one more time. The first time was thinking the Florida recount was actually real.
If the machine wants Hillary, we’ll get Hillary. Or if the machine does NOT want Trump, we won’t get Trump short of a “people’s revolution”. And even that would be a very long shot.
We all have to realize that when a billionaire who has a “midas” touch can be taken down ...... And this would be the second time in my lifetime.
All we can do is trust in God and pray that our will is in line with His will.
Organized by cheats like Willard....
Because of his own personal history and politics, Willard couldn’t win himself in 2012 and he sure doesnt want a better man winning in 2016...
however this comes out vet your local delegates in 2020 for personal integrity...
Whomever is spreading this manure better get replays of the Trump rallies and see how many pissed off patriotic Americans, who are supporting Trump, will be. We have hourly treason taking place in this Administration and Congress and we have to read this crap 24/7? It feels like 1930’s Germany watching evil come to power all over again. Never Again? It’s here. Look around at the enemies of America who are being shipped everywhere hourly.
Possibly a military coup.
But that won’t happen because the same Providence that helped found America against all odds is here today to “preserve, protect, and defend” America’s freedom and constitutional republic against all odds.
God is not finished with America because when America goes, the whole world goes launching the End. The End is coming, “But not yet...” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF9C3cklVIQ I believe God in his love and mercy is planning a rebirth of freedom in America and around the world for the next few decades for one last in-gathering of souls before He comes for His own and it all comes crashing down.
The Horn News ^ | 05/21/16 | Editorial
And another media twit thinking they are so important and know it all...ROFL...not any where close EDITOR...not even close!!!
Trump is going to be the next POTUS...by a landslide, deal with it, get over it, the primaries are over, except for Hillary and Bernie, she still doesn’t have the delegates to win this thing...And here is Trump, since Indiana all by himself, knocking out 16 other candidates, bringing in more voters for the Republican Party in the history of the party, and poor little sad face EDITOR had to cry his little sad story...boohoo...ROFL!!!
A SCOTUS nomination is the trade off.
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Have you seen, read, heard of any indication that Cruz wants a SCOTUS position?
I don’t see him in a confined, limited public exposure position but rather one
where he is in an interactive position with the populace. JMO
Sorry, not buying it. Can we please stop posting the same story over and over again? This is contrived MSM BS right out of voter suppression 101.
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