Posted on 03/01/2016 9:06:35 PM PST by Helicondelta
Donald J. Trump won sweeping victories across the South and in New England on Tuesday, a show of strength in the Republican primary campaign that underscored the breadth of his appeal and helped him begin to amass a wide delegate advantage despite growing resistance to his candidacy among party leaders.
Mr. Trump’s political coalition — with his lopsided victories in Alabama, Georgia, Massachusetts and Tennessee, and narrower ones in Arkansas and Virginia — appears to have transcended the regional and ideological divisions that have shaped the Republican Party in recent years.
With strong support from low-income white voters, especially those without college degrees, he dominated in moderate, secular-leaning Massachusetts just as easily as he did in the conservative and heavily evangelical Deep South.
Brandishing his Super Tuesday victories as proof of his political might, Mr. Trump said he expected to consolidate the Republican Party behind his campaign.
“I am a unifier,” he told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., after the winners of about half the day’s contests had been declared. “Once we get all of this finished, I am going to go after one person: Hillary Clinton.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.nytimes.com ...
He can refuse to trade insults and stress that they attack Hillary. Start acting presidential.
Wheel and deal a little. Maybe not with both of them but it is time to patch up the relationship with Ted Cruz. Since a judge in Illinois ruled Cruz eligible this week it offers Trump cover. Maybe even apologize and other him his hand
Freeze out Rubio.
This is a win, win for Trump. If Cruz is willing to reconcile then Trump appears less bombastic, and gains an ally more diplomatic. If Cruz refuses he appears petty.
If Cruz accepts he positions himself for 2020. I don’t think Trump would run a 2nd term due to age.
I’ve been wrong before
good one.
If your claiming ownership to a hallway it really doesn’t bode well.
You never know. They ran a pretty good article about how Hillary f'ed up Libya and a whole lot more. I didn't know that infamous interview, we came, we saw, occurred in Afghanistan unless I misread that part; I know the interview took place. They left the cackle off the end of the quote though.
I know people that walk around with 5 grand just to make sure they can help the farm.
Are you saying farmers have wads of cash? You'd be right. Many are sitting on theirs. Some are going to be hurting, among them those that have to borrow to put a crop in, if grain prices don't improve, and there's no indication they will any time soon.
I read something very ominous on an ag site the other day, a comment, they want to put the family farmers out of business.
Maybe that's not what you meant and I missed the point.
Did you miss the point of this thread?
He will. It’s a process, and he’s not yet at that point on the project plan.
Maybe I did. I actually clicked on the link and read the entire article. The emotional part of me is caught up in a hopeful sweep to victory by Trump, but the thinking part of me doesn't like him, his politics, his life-style, his vulgarity; I just don't like Hillary more.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-delegate-tracker/
Delegate count
Trump: 274
Cruz: 149
Rubio: 82
Alabama’s delegate rules can best be described as “winner-take-most.” Under that system, if a candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote in a congressional district or is the only candidate to receive over 20 percent of the vote, he will receive all three of the delegates available there. Trump will have a difficult time hitting 50 percent, but he will likely win two of the three delegates in districts where he finishes first, as long as he and the second-place finisher each receive at least 20 percent. (The runner-up will get the other district delegate.) If a candidate earns more than 50 percent of the statewide vote, he will receive all 29 of the statewide delegates. However, if no one reaches that mark, all candidates with over 20 percent statewide will get a proportional share of those 29.http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/super-tuesday-preview-republican-presidential-election-2016/
There are various sorts of allocation rules all over the South. The delegate count will change across the South in the next few days when all the results are analyzed in depth.
You may be right, but I prefer my American Jack Daniels to Canadian Cruz on the rocks.
No, I did not know that. Thank you for setting me straight.
My apologies to you, glock rocks. I can be a genuine jackass and lacking in judgement when I indulge myself with a couple of shots of Scotch.
Very honest answer.
I cannot help you there.
If you are content with YOUR government then do not worry about it.
They pound and pound and pound this message: "If you are supporting Trump, you are a stupid loser uneducated angry racist." They lead every article with it. "Trump did well especially with you haters - aren't you ashamed of yourselves?"
Trump short circuited this as soon as he refused to care about the name calling and doubled down on who he was.
If he dropped out today ... he's already done more for America than any Republican in the past 20 years ...
Um, I think that was sarcasm.
I think about our founders, know they weren't religious; some were Freemasons. They have a group that dresses up like Arabs with a fez but that probably came later.
Anyway, Washington I got to wondering how he withstood getting all his teeth pulled. I didn't find the answer, but the Smithsonian has a good article about it and a photo of his dentures. They weren't wooden.
No, I appeal to God and our founders how the people could support some of the candidates and why He allows injustices to go on for so long. One of the candidates is just plain evil. I never saw any of our former presidents as evil until I'll leave it to you.
Cruz has run the worst campaign. He waited too long to define himself because he assumed the sale to Trump. When Trump started to cut Cruz down, it turned out that Cruz had not built up a coterie of supporters.
And then, when unfairly criticized for the Ben Carson withdrawal in Iowa, he didn’t know how to fight back.
He and Trump remind me of that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when the enemy came out with his sword and made some deft moves. Cruz would get caught in the weeds, engaging him in the sword fight on the attacker’s own terms; Trump is like Harrison Ford, pulling out the gun and shooting him, finishing him off in seconds. That’s why an executive is a better candidate than is an advisor.
Trump = 192
Cruz = 132
Rubio = 66
Where are you getting your numbers?
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