But don't worry he will outfox those sophisticated Europeans, those inscrutable Chinese, those devious middle Easterners and those highly intelligent Japanese. He will be terrific then.
This we know because he told us so
Posted on 03/28/2016 9:47:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Oh, how cruel the game of politics can be — especially if you don’t have a ground game.
On Sunday night, Donald Trump tweeted, “Just to show you how unfair Republican primary politics can be, I won the State of Louisiana and get less delegates than Cruz — lawsuit coming.”
It’s true: On March 5, Mr. Trump took 41.4 percent of the Louisiana vote compared with Ted Cruz’s 37.8 percent and Marco Rubio’s 11.2 percent. Mr. Trump was awarded 18 delegates, so was Mr. Cruz, and Mr. Rubio got 5 delegates.
So what happened between March 5 and Sunday? Mr. Rubio dropped out, and under Louisiana delegate rules, those pledged to Mr. Rubio became unbound — meaning they were free to choose whatever remaining candidates were left in the race. Looks like they chose Mr. Cruz.
Mr. Cruz knows that in order to secure the number of delegates he needs to take the Republican nomination, he’s going to have to woo over Mr. Rubio’s supporters — and although he’s fallen short of an endorsement from the senator from Florida (as of now), many in the establishment lane are seeing Mr. Cruz as the only way to stop Mr. Trump.
Not to mention the grunt work Mr. Cruz’s team is putting in.
Mr. Cruz’s campaign has worked a state-by-state delegate strategy — both encouraging his supporters to run as delegates and by lobbying them to run and serve on various committees at the Republican National Convention.
As The Wall Street Journal noted last week: “Mr. Cruz’s supporters seized five of Louisiana’s six slots on the three powerful committees that will write the rules and platform at the Republican National Convention and mediate disputes over delegates’ eligibility this summer in Cleveland.”
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I thought politicians were dumb? They negotiated bad deal and that all we needed was a smart and cunning POTUS to negotiate good deals?
But don't worry he will outfox those sophisticated Europeans, those inscrutable Chinese, those devious middle Easterners and those highly intelligent Japanese. He will be terrific then.
This we know because he told us so
No, he didn’t need an insider. He simply has read the rules and has an awesome ground team in place.
If they try to over rule the voters we will only have one viable party left in America, the Democrats. There will be nothing more to do than wait for the invasion of foreign armies maybe pickup a Russian and Chinese rosetta stone.
I would support trump as a third party candidate. I think it could work. Remember Connecticut and Joe Lieberman. The dems thought they could screw Joe but he ended up screwing the dems. I think trump could easily screw the GOPe.
You again trying to push your stubborn , bias view. Stick to the facts seeing as you have been proven wrong this morning by saying the GOP has not changed the rules in over a 100 years and you failed to mention they changed them in 1012.
Dear The Donald: Politics is not a “reality TV shoe’. Ronald Reagan knew that. Are you ready to dent your fortune to play the game? We are about to find out if you can tweet your way into the White Hut.
Time to prove you’re serious, sir. I meant my vote for you in my state’s Pubbie primary to be taken seriously.
I believe Trump could go 3rd party and win. That would be the death of the GOPe.
Well put....
more and more people over the weekend said if they rob trump then they will not vote for any republican and especially cruz.
It is over for cruz and the GOP.
He was just being terrifically stupid. You have to admit he’s very good at that.
The head candidate in delegates hates cheating. Cruz is a natural at lying and cheating. Trump should go third party if this crap continues.
well put,how is it baseless?
And that is the difference between Trump and Cruz supporters. Most of the Cruz supporters WILL vote for Trump if he is the nominee. The Trump supporters will pick up their toys and go home, electing Hillary. That is the time we need to come together for whomever gets the nomination. ANYONE but Hillary(and her SCOTUS picks)
A boy named Sue.
Wish I had seen your post before I opened my yap, NB. LOVE reading your posts!
Political parties are private power brokers. They are corrupt and want only to keep power. The do not have the voters on their radar
It's just crazy.
Stealing the decision from the electorate is not an awesome ground game. Sleaze bag GOPe insider.
We have one chance to break the hold of the oligarchy on the US and that candidate is Trump.
I will not vote for Cruz or any Republican if the nominee is not Trump.
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