Posted on 03/15/2016 11:36:30 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
“If Trump gets big numbers in Florida, you’re not going to be able to stop him. You’ll just tear the party apart,” he said.
“If Trump wins Florida by the margin anticipated, then [Sen. Marco] Rubio could stay in just to affect the numbers, but he won’t be a serious candidate anymore,” Gingrich said.
Gingrich is watching Florida closely, but he’s also looking at Ohio, where his former House Budget chairman John Kasich is looking to get a win to keep himself alive going into the convention, amid pressure from Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 97% .
“If Kasich wins Ohio, he could certainly stay in and be part of a potential negotiating block,” Gingrich said. “But in five Ohio counties, 20 percent of the voters are people who voted in the Democratic primary in the past. That is very, very good for Trump.”
Gingrich threw cold water all over the idea of a brokered convention, which Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol has been plotting. If no candidate gets 50 percent of the delegates on the first ballot, then on the second ballot the pledged delegates can become “un-pledged” and support whomever the party bosses tell them to support.
“It’s childish nonsense,” Gingrich said. “There are two potential presidential nominees. One is named Donald. One is named Ted. The idea that some clever Washington intellectual or power broker — put quote marks around ‘power broker’— can step into an election in which millions have voted and magically change the trajectory of history? It’s goofy. There’s two players standing.”
Gingrich speculated that Trump and Cruz might actually form an alliance, similar to how they did in the early days of the campaign, in order to prevent a brokered convention at the last minute.
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This "Brokered Convention" nonsense is the bargaining stage.
Excellent point.
Everyone knows that.
Its why the GOPe has been on a full court, anti-Trump press the last 2 weeks
Its why Romney has reappeared
its why Obama's Red Guards and the Moveon.org thugs have coordinated their disruptions late last week
Its why the MSM has reached a crescendo of anti-Trump themes.
I hope marco really enjoyed.telling those jokes because it now defines him.
While I agree with that, they are also firmly mired in the anger stage.
They’re acting out as we speak.
Foam Boy!
I believe the GOPlibs are still clinging to their hopes in Ohio. That is why Mitt went there instead of Florida.
when depression sets in we need to put some folks on suicide watch.
He has to win by only one vote to get all FL delegates: it’s the way the “GOP” fixed the procedures.
I can’t wait for their depression stage.
I know.
No matter, if he doesn’t win my 20 points, it’s a figurative loss to those who loathe him.
Nope...
Winners win.
The last OH person to benefit from a brokered convention was
Warren G. Harding, right? By the time the party met in Cleveland in 1924, Harding was gone, and Coolidge was the nominee.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3409572/posts
Trump owes Rubio a big spot in his cabinet for staying in the race and stopping Cruz from winning.
KASICK has not even won any state primary, and has no prospect to win going forward.
Also KASICK IS
For Common Core
Voted for assault weapon ban, semi auto rifles
Voted for Nafta, cost 112,000 Ohio jobs
Voted for Amnesty back in 1986, still weak on it today
For TPP, we need more Americans unemployed more empty factories.
Took money from Soros typical Rino.
Pals with Gary Condit
Absentee Governor for the past year
This guy raise the state budget 30 percent. Taxes have gone up.
Why would the People of Ohio waste their vote on Kasich who hasn’t a prayer of being elected.
Is he hoping to make a deal to be VP at the convention. Never Happen.
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