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How Ted Cruz has won the Nomination
Red State ^ | April 10, 2016 | Michael Harrington

Posted on 04/10/2016 5:02:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Those in the know are now spreading the word. Read it here first!

Earlier I had a different Note, and different stuff written. Now I can tell you that Ted Cruz is the winner, I can prove it for most people. Yes read it again, Ted Cruz has won the nomination.

Trump is letting people go as we all know. Florida, Ohio, and other battleground States have seen most positions slashed. Staff in his Headquarters have been let go as well even when they were performing critical roles. Trump did not even have a New York Team until last week. He is growing teams in some States, but those teams will be laid off later just as he has done to any State he considers “safe”. Trump is not spending the money needed to secure a campaign team, he thinks force of personality will win. That was his undoing.

The Nation will wake up after the New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Delaware election to the very same title as I have posted. “Ted Cruz wins the Nomination”.

So how did Ted Cruz do it? It starts in 2014. Ted Cruz decided he was going to run for President. So he hires Cambridge Analytica, some top people from the Romney Campaign, from the Santorum Campaign, the Ron Paul Campaign, amongst others. Not the top paid people. Often those people are there for show only, no Ted Cruz hired the real talent. Ramping up for 2016 Ted made the strategic goal to win his “lane”, to prepare for a Contested Convention, to have the strongest volunteer base, and finally… to win the data war like no one has ever won the data war before.

So this leads up to New York and current wins that have been talked about, mentioned, or alluded to.

New York

Donald Trump ran from efforts to secure California and Colorado for a reason. At first he utterly was bored with Ted Cruz stumping in New York. After all the media, his campaign, the polls… aka the yes men, the yes men, and the Pundits who never seem to score Ted Cruz properly, all were saying Trump was going to win in New York. So why even bother? Until his campaign team studied what areas Ted Cruz was doing, checked the election laws for New York, and hit the panic button (I wonder who is getting fired over this failure). Oh and Trump’s campaign did not see voters had to Register in October of last year. His own children missed the deadline to switch from Democrat to Republican.

Trump has been polling above 50%, so the man who really does not know politics assumed he would clean up in New York. His problem is that you need to win 50% in each of the 27 Congressional Districts to get all of the delegates. This is where his headache is beginning. Ted Cruz is campaigning in districts no Republican Presidential candidate has ever campaigned in. This includes the Bronx. With very few Republicans there no normal candidate would take the time. But Ted Cruz can campaign there, win the conservatives, and get potentially over 50%.

Did your eyes get wide? Yes, Ted Cruz can win some of these small Republican population CD’s. Now it is unlikely that Ted really takes a lot of them, with Kasich as a spoiler. But it is potentially possible Trump can end up 3rd in some CD’s. Not so many as I would wish would happen, but enough to make the Pundits, the Yes Men, and the Yes Men (doh! I mean pollsters, media, and Trump team) to all say that Trump got shellacked in his home turf. Trump may win the popular vote, but his delegate total is not going to meet his expectations and those silly Yes Men will all be saying that Ted Cruz is going to make it a Contested Convention.

Pennsylvania

Polling currently shows Trump up at 39%, but that’s 39%… You read that right. Ted Cruz at 30% and Kasich at 24%. Kasich lost 5% in Wyoming and it is reasonable to think he will lose as much or more in Penn State. Which means Ted Cruz, who often surges in the undecides and those who leave other candidates, can quite easily pass Trump here..

Connecticut and Montana

Libertarian, strongly, especially in Republican ranks. Expect these to be #NeverTrump and pro-Cruz.

Delaware and Rhode Island

One closed, one Open. First is 16 delegates, the second 19. No polls, no details, but they are not in the South, which is an important note. Still I concede these States because really… It does not matter in the final math. A win here for Cruz makes it that much more painful for Trump as he gets pummeled to the Convention.

Indiana

Indiana is already a losing proposition for Trump (link) (link)

Washington

Caucus State, closed, and Ted Cruz has almost entirely secured the Delegates there with no issues. Trump did an unforced error when he sent a Delegate list to Washington DC instead of Washington State. His supporters had no list when the Counties were doing their votes. The Caucus is heavily predicted for Cruz, I call 40 of 44 for Cruz and all delegates in the delegate selection.

Oregon

Hello to the Trump team in Oregon, we saw you recently organized. Congratulations on getting paid positions. However you are about 4 months too late. We secured so much of Oregon that it will be a Ted Cruz based slate that makes the Delegates. Further your support is far weaker than our support in Oregon. We have tons of evidence of that. 25 for election, 3 from the State, 28 Delegates total. Of the 25 you will win at best 3. Deal with it. If you beg enough to Trump – maybe he will try, but I sincerely doubt it. Be prepared to be fired afterwards by him for not carrying the State or improving his numbers here. Signed the Ted Cruz Oregon Team Narlina Duke, Jeff Reynolds, Michael Harrington, Mark Callahan, Nathan Dahlin, and many more. Let me know if you ever get anyone to actually endorse you openly. I want you to know we have many candidates and a number of State Representatives and Senators on board.

For those not in Oregon, Oregon is firmly in the Ted Cruz camp. We worked hard in making this happen and the pay off is that when Trump finally showed up he has 3rd rate stringers, a few trolls, a few spies, and we have their ranks fully identified. The two major candidates who support Trump will not publicly say so, that is how bad it is here in Oregon for Trump.

Other States

Not knocking any of them, I just have to get to the other side in a concise manner. Nebraska is Ted Cruz, West Virginia is by Congressional District, South Dakota should be Ted Cruz by significant numbers… The tide is switching hard against Trump and he cannot get enough secured for a first ticket win. It is in probability terms a number equal to being stuck by lightening three times in a row. Ted Cruz has got amazing odds of making it a contested convention, and more so, his odds of winning first ticket are better than Trump’s.

Trump will be short by about 140 delegates according to my current math. This includes some insider knowledge, but there you go. That is the MINIMUM shortage by the way. It could exceed 200 delegates even :)

Delegate Fights

Since this is going to be a Contested Convention without to much doubt, we have to look at how the various States are doing. In this regards there is not much room for Trump. The panic button is pushed and he is already deeply behind. More so the remainder of the States lean towards Ted Cruz. Trump spent his load, and the New York run is the end of the line for the Trump Train. Many of the States having had voted are going to lean to Ted Cruz for delegates even if they have not selected their delegates yet. Here is a list of mostly voted States (or voting).

GOP Leader Delegates (link)

Washington (link) (link)

Wisconsin: Delegates here are actually from the candidates Slate by law. Ted Cruz all but 6 :)

Iowa (link)

Tennessee (link)

Louisiana (link)

Colorado (link) (link)

Ohio: Kasich got his Republican friends to make this so each candidate submitted a Slate and the winner gets their Slate approved. Access denied for Trump, but these will be the most rabid of Kasich supporters.

South Carolina (link)

Wyoming: Convention will nominate 14 more delegates on April 16th. Cruz won with 66% in this Caucus State. Delegate list not yet compiled of course until the Convention.

North Dakota (link)

Georgia (link) In Georgia you had to be a PCP elected a year plus ago. Trump was not even considering it. Ted Cruz was :)

Virginia (link)

Utah: 23rd April we get answers how this one goes. Spoiler: Caucus State, Cruz got 70% of the vote.

Missouri: Ted Cruz is inching out Trump in places like St. Louis and St. Charles for delegates. Votes are happening now. We get the full Slate when we win by at least 1 vote. So yeah, kicking ass and taking names in Missouri (only links are Trump ones complaining, wont post those).

Arizona no delegates selected yet, but the Ted Cruz Slate is expected to win (link)

Oregon: No link, just my word, a Ted Cruz slate is the only Slate that can push through.

Michigan: The only loss for the Ted Cruz campaign to date (link) other than Ohio.

Texas: Guess!

Conclusion

Many States have yet to make their delegations. However in most cases the State Party is leaning Ted Cruz by significant numbers. Additionally the Tea Party, born in 2010, has been taking States by storm in the last few years in the “hidden war” for the Republican Party. I listed only 18 States. Of those 18 we saw one for Kasich, and one split for Trump and Kasich. Some of this is insider knowledge, I am in a few news groups and get details people won’t see and I cannot share. However I will say this, at this juncture I am projecting that Ted Cruz has essentially secured the hearts of 1300+ delegates. This is the battle we have won. We have enough States that we could potentially unseat Reince Priebus with room to spare. It is that significant what is going on inside the Republican Party.

This is not just about Ted Cruz, we are a movement of our own inside the Party.

Now we wont be exactly kicking the Establishment out over-night. Most of the sitting people will remain there, like Mitch McConnell. We don’t have enough top candidates to challenge at the Federal level, but we are in fact winning a larger share of the State level fights by looks of it. So this is where we make the offer… Instead of frequently negotiating with Democrats, negotiate with us. We are the future of the Party. Work with us and there will be less desire to remove you, less need to do so. You can probably stay until you have decided to leave if you reasonably work with us to make the changes the voters of the Republican Party so deeply want that they almost risked electing Trump as a spoiler.

I think they already know we are here however, the endorsements Trump has gotten are from mostly the dead-enders (Chris Christie, Sarah Palin, and Ben Carson for example) and lower level ignorant politicians. The main party can see the writing on the wall and probably are already working to make preparations to work with Ted Cruz.

The Fox News team, Lars Larson, and other right side media persons who supported Trump are doing so because either they were told to do so by their parent company and complied, because they got spammed by fake accounts making them think the support was overwhelmingly there for Trump, or because they are factually stationed in New York and have adapted those values we decry.


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To: caww
Nice pic, doesn't do R. Cruz justice.
261 posted on 04/10/2016 10:24:57 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The article is extremely Inside Baseballish, but if you’re running for president, you need to hire people who know the rules. All that Wonky data cannot just ignored.


262 posted on 04/10/2016 10:43:20 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: tophat9000
you’re delusional if you think the Canadians going to get past the Dem without getting knocked out as NBC in Roberts Supreme Court....

You lose because you mentioned Canada.

Think of it as the modified Godwin's Law for the 2016 GOP primary: As an online discussion of the GOP primary grows longer, the probability of an assertion involving Canada approaches 1. At which point, the discussion becomes worthless!

Because birfers drool!

263 posted on 04/10/2016 10:46:31 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: sagar

I swear you are retarded. The entire caucus was 8,000 participants. Cruz got 2800 and trump got 2300. The rest were given up to others.


264 posted on 04/10/2016 11:13:16 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: georgiarat
My problem with Cruz is that he was neutral in all the primary contests because of the deal he cut with MConnell

Cruz did not see at the time how McConnell outsmarted him, Ryan convinced Cruz to cowrite the article in the WSJ supporting TPA undermining conservatives, and the MCConnell lied to him about the Iranian deal.

Thanks for the response.....I just don't see it the same way. I think Cruz worked it the best way he could by raising money for the incumbent challengers in 2013...including Matt Bevin, who tried to take McConnell's seat....while fulfilling his obligations as an "appointed" member of the NRSC in 2014, since that objective was to "turn the Senate" to the Republican's advantage, which they did.

The TPA deal, I'm ambivalent on. I've studied back to the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934, the Kennedy round....Tokyo round...and Uruguay round...and don't see what all the "this is different" hoopla was about.

Cruz said he was for it....then backed out....because he said McConnell lied about making a deal to get the Ex-Im passed in "exchange" for TPA.

And I don't know about McConnell lying to Cruz about Iran.....just that McConnell cut off every amendment Senators wanted to add to the Iran deal. Did I miss a part of that story?

265 posted on 04/10/2016 11:57:55 PM PDT by TXSearcher (The anti-RINO rebellion is being won by a NY RINO.......truth IS stranger than fiction.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just a wet dream or did you help with your hand?


266 posted on 04/11/2016 3:52:36 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: editor-surveyor

Cruz was born in Canada. He has been caught fooling around. Insert fork.


267 posted on 04/11/2016 5:10:34 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: Dead Corpse

You mean those Democrats that you need to win in November?


268 posted on 04/11/2016 5:11:53 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

Keep your teeth together newbie.

If you want to vote Democrat-lite, vote Trump. Cruz has NEVER supported Democrats unlike The Donald who invited the Clintons to his wedding...


269 posted on 04/11/2016 5:55:06 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: TXSearcher

Went back and retread several articles on the Bevin, MCDaniel and Senate races in 2014. McConnell and .cruz’s deal was that Cruz would stay neutral in the Senate races in return for McConnelll not opposing Cruz running for President. After the deal in December 2013 Cruz did not campaign, donate or raise money for any republican primary challenger to an incumbent Senator. He did blast the leadership and tactics used against McDaniel AFTER the race was over.

McConnell protected his flank by making the deals with Rand Paul and Cruz so Bevin and other challengers would not have active support of those senators and successful tea party candidates. After the primaries Cruz resigned from the NRSC as VP in protest to the tactics used against McDaniel.


270 posted on 04/11/2016 6:24:21 AM PDT by georgiarat (Obama, providing incompetence since Day One!)
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To: editor-surveyor

I doubt it. The reality is he will disappoint you and most of his supporters. He is bought and paid for also and he is no “True Conservative”. I no longer believe in Conservatism, it stands for nothing.


271 posted on 04/11/2016 9:17:43 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Dead Corpse

Cruz cannot win, and you will be sorry.


272 posted on 04/11/2016 3:16:59 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

Cruz has just as much chance as Donald. Either would be preferrable to a Dem.

A fact you appear to be losing sight of.


273 posted on 04/11/2016 7:07:00 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: napscoordinator

“The entire caucus was 8,000 participants. Cruz got 2800 and trump got 2300. The rest were given up to others.”

Wow, you are just dense, aren’t you? Your numbers show that Cruz got 20% more voters than Trump. 2nd grade math. Are you complaining about the size of the participants or the Donald’s piss poor performance?


274 posted on 04/11/2016 7:09:38 PM PDT by sagar (3 way race; cranky populist - Trump/Sanders, establishment - Hillary/Roobio, conservative - Cruz!)
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To: sagar

You are a jerk. No wonder Cruz is only at 536. What a freak you are supporting. And you are dumber then a rock. You and Cruz can go screw some more. Just whipe your chin this time for Gods sake.


275 posted on 04/11/2016 8:07:13 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ted Cruz has won anything except the toe of the Republican Party’s boot after they use him like a cheap whore to block Donald Trump and then kick him to the curb.


276 posted on 04/11/2016 8:19:09 PM PDT by sport
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
See, resistance is futile, sez Michael Harrington, shilling over at Red State, April 10, 2016.

277 posted on 04/20/2016 12:56:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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