Posted on 02/18/2016 1:51:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
For all the jostling and jockeying taking place in South Carolina ahead of this weekend's Republican primary, little of it will be decisive.
If anything, the outcome Saturday night only stands to muddy an already messy contest to lead a deeply fractured Republican Party. Losers may not be forced to leave the race, and the still-uncertain winner will leave the state with nothing guaranteed.
The growing consensus among many senior Republicans is that there are three likely outcomes facing Republicans. Donald Trump could win enough delegates to be the nominee. Ted Cruz could do the same. Or no candidate emerges from the final primaries on June 7 with the required 1,237 delegates to win when the intra-party convention starts in Cleveland.
That means the remaining candidates with a claim to party establishment backing--Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush--see their chances for winning the nomination before the July convention dwindling. National and early-state polls have shown Trump and Cruz polling with a combined share of more than half of party voters. The also-rans do not have a clear path, barring a sudden collapse in support for Trump or Cruz, to cobble together sufficient support to put up a roadblock to the outsiders' aggressions, even if two of the candidates agreed to drop out to unite behind the third....
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Cruz has more conservatism in his pinky finger than Donald Trump has in his entire hairpiece.
IF Trump is the nominee, I’ll back him. With LESS enthusiasm than I gave Romney though.
We are heading to a brokered convention. The establishment can't win outright, but they can force us into a brokered convention by getting Kasich and Jeb to drop out and funding Rubio exclusively.
states that require candidates to reach a threshold of either 20 percent or 15 percent to share in the proportional allocation of delegates. Only two candidates are likely to meet that threshold.
Says who? Sorry, the the transformed angel of light is not even eligible to hold the office of president. That is how conservative Cruz literally is.... Some people are just born to believe deception.
Trump is every bit as much conservative as Rush Limbaugh ..... Care to compare and contrast their lifestyles????
I just don’t see that happening unless the GOPe funds Katich, Bush and Rubio - all of them - until the bitter end. Ig they drop out due to lack of funds, or the impossibility of gaining a majority of delegates, leaving Cruz and Trump battling for the winner take all states, Trump is crushed.
Try to stick to actual issues instead of wild-eyed tabloid stuff.
Draft Romney? Oh Plz..
Teddy is the insider’s insider. Has the rubes huckleberried.
S N I C K E R
Well just keep watching and you will see. LOL!
You are in the South so I will trust your judgement and continue to pray!!! After the last election I was just STUNNED we could NOT beat Obama a Muslim, Marxist with an absolutely horrible record of running this nation!!
And can you explain to me how Trump is conservative????
Thanks for posting this absolute miasma of wishful thinking. There will be no “brokered” convention because nobody but Trump will get to the convention with at least a majority of delegates in each of at least eight states. Right now, that’s what the rules require for any candidate to be submitted as a potential nominee to be voted on. No one here or anywhere can name those essential eight states for any candidate other than Trump. Hence, Trump wins the convention without any other candidate’s name even being entered to be voted on.
You are going to be very disappointed Cruz will NEVER win the nomination if he can’t win the South!!!
Wow. Missed that one. His willingness to disclose inconvenient truths, or worse hand them over to his attorney general, is probably what has so many gop-e pukes heading for their fainting couches.
DT needs to hire a food tester or three. Pronto.
If the so-called SuperDelegates try a floor fight to deny the nomination to the candidate(s) who wind up with the most public support, there are just a few possible outcomes:If it's #3, there isn't anyone on Earth who will take their side, not even the Demagogic Party scumbags in and out of the media.
- they want something in return for dropping it
- they're serious and think they can pull it off
- they will find out what "heads on poles" really means.
This is a serious question and not meant to be snarky or rude but who do we REALLY NEED Trump? What exactly for? Can someone please outline his specific plans on any one topic other than building a wall?
I didn’t say he was. If he does any one of the things he claims he will do he will be better than any of the other horse’s asses running. I know they are full of shit.
The wall, in and of itself, is enough.
Because if we lose on the border, we lose on every single issue in the long term.
And none of the other candidates have shown a willingness to do anything about it. Even Cruz.
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