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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Who are these “more and more people” you speak of? I sure didn’t hear anybody say that.
Another example of why this may be my last election as a Republican.
Voters and the party lose when their a choices are circumvented.
RE: The GOP will never win without Trump voters.
I am just about resigned to the fact that with this dirty infighting going on, barring a Hillary indictment by the FBI, we just might see another President Clinton this coming November.
If the GOP cannot win without Trump voters, Trump cannot win without the GOP voters who did not support Trump.
Hello Justice Merrick Garland.
two neighbors and one co worker today.
Would you like names, addresses and phone numbers too?
Trump for third party candidate! I would love trump to win as a third party so he can tell both parties to stuff it. That is the best scenario to stop the two party elites from stealing elections.
Agreed, so if Trump can’t play in this arena in Louisiana, can he effectively play with the CCP? Now that is corrupt and self interested!
I wonder if Ted and Heidi will let Donny keep his headquarters in CRUZ TOWER?
OR maybe he just has to be smarter and know how to play the game better. But of course that couldn't possibly be, nobody could possibly outplay Trump........unless they were cheating........right?
Crooks— it should be that whoever gets the most votes gets the most delegates.
What we have here is another example of a GOP Party establishment that is disconnected from the will of its voters. It will just make the base angrier.
-PJ
3 primary wins and that is great ground game. You funny.
They party makes the rules. What’s he gonna do...sue the voters next?
RE: Voters and the party lose when their a choices are circumvented.
Well, the question is whose choices are circumvented?
Most Louisiana voters did not vote for Trump.
As posted on another thread:
If not knowing/understanding the delegate process is any indication of the “deals” Trump will make as president, then we’d all better pray. Simple facts are these: the rules were in place before the campaign began, ALL candidates had access to the rules, Trump is losing delegates as a result of not paying attention to the rules. Hey, it’s the art of the deal!
so the establishment changed the rules back in 2012 to let Romney get the nomination easier and now they want rules ot change to stop the non establishment guy and you are OK with them changing rules when it suits them/
“Most Louisiana voters did not vote for Trump.”
Or Cruz.
+1,000,000. Your post is spot on.
In that case, I’m sure that Trumps boast about having the requisite number of delegates at the convention should be taken as truth. Just like this interview was where Trump admits bluffing on the China trade thing.
He’s damn good at the bluff and everyone falls for it
RE: Crooks— it should be that whoever gets the most votes gets the most delegates.
Unfortunately, those are not the rules of the Louisiana primaries <-— the rules have been in place long before Trump decided to run.
If we got by “whoever gets the most votes gets the most delegates.”, Al Gore would have been President in 2000.
Cruz is not smarter. Nothing is more loathsome to Americans than a religious hypocrite. Cruz lies, and cheats.
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