Posted on 04/01/2016 5:03:48 AM PDT by Bratch
Townhall reporter Guy Benson today admitted the Cruz campaign is stealing Trump delegates in states that Trump won.
The Ted Cruz campaign is running Cruz supporters as Trump delegates in states that Trump won. That way they can steal the nomination from Trump in Cleveland although they’ve only won a fraction of the states Trump has won.
Guy Benson: This has been percolating for several months. He has a very sharp legal team that know the rules inside and out in a way the Trump campaign clearly does not. It’s not just Louisiana. And it’s not just finagling to just get Rubio delegates or unbound delegates. What they’re also doing is getting people elected as Trump delegates who are not, in fact, Trump loyalists. So they would be bound to Donald Trump on the first ballot only. After which, although they are technically Trump delegates, they’ve been sort of put in place to jump.
And these are the same people who call Trump supporters ‘morons’ one day and beg them to support Ted Cruz the next.
CONFIRMED: Cruz Camp Stealing Trump Delegates at State Level
In ‘64, before the campaign really got under way, it was decided by Democrats and powerful elites that Barry Goldwater, the only Republican with the organizational strength to get the nomination, was not going to be President.
So, the decision was to to destroy the man. Not just politically, but totally. To make him and whatever positions he espoused toxic, not just for that year, but for all history.
The general media, it's leftist tendencies even then already becoming apparent, were only too happy to go along for this giddy ride.
It was unprecedented in the annals of American Presidential politics.
And so today we see the phenomenon of what's happening to Donald Trump.
At first, his “candidacy” was taken so seriously, it's announcement was reported by the Huffpo in it's Entertainment news section.
But as the man kept talking and gaining strength, he started becoming a problem for sectors of society who have always viewed themselves as above the fray, so to speak, and definitely above the Great Unwashed (that's you and and me, brother!).
Quickly on, the decision was made to reapply the Goldwater option. I mean, who, in their right mind, and given decades of Pavlovian education applied to the aforementioned Unwashed, could even think of this man and his ideas as appealing?
So, they ran everybody and his grandmother against the guy - who still kept gaining strength. Outrageous! But the other candidates, once numbering 16 strong, fell by the wayside, despite serious efforts by the party hacks and other brave humanitarians to save the day, save the country, and most importantly, save themselves.
Then, there were just 3 left - Trump, the ruffian outsider who, unfortunately, was richer than dirt, and hence needed no outside help (outrageous!); Cruz, the stealth Establishmentarian who found himself time and again voting with the Obama Democrats on major issues of the day, and who eventually found support and solace in the Bush family and the RNC establishment in general; and Kasich, the Democrat in Republican clothing, who, beyond all reasonable claim, stays in for who knows what nefarious purposes.
The Goldwater-like destruction attempts found very ardent co-conspirators in the mainstream media, who are once again along for a giddy ride. Of course, they no longer enjoy blind fealty from large swaths of the population, but still have enough to make things interesting.
Into this smoldering, boiling cauldron we stumble, almost inadvertently, across news that indeed our votes do not count for anything, that they are subject to crass manipulation by corrupt politicians (are there any other kind in existence?) and their supporters/financiers/masters.
Each day, as new evidence becomes available (and more often than not swept under the rug by those who, if they had any degree of self-respect, should really know better) we see ever-increasing proof that America is in real danger of no longer being America, and we find ourselves afraid - not only about what is happening before our very eyes, but for our collective futures, which also seem to be disappearing before very eyes.
We are fearful, we are angry, and seemingly powerless to do anything to stop this runaway train of History-Gone-Bad.
But, alas! We've at last found someone who speaks of the very issues that most bother us, issues that NO ONE ELSE BOTHERED TO RAISE!
And suddenly, we possess that most dangerous of attitudes in a time of unrelenting Political Correctness - HOPE!
Beyond all question, for the safety and benefit of our Betters, this outrageous phenomenon must be quashed, squashed and buried for good, along with it's progenitor, one Donald Trump!
Historically, all nations and empires die. That seems to be a rule of history. But the greatest single cause of these nation deaths is suicide. Yes, we are in the midst of committing cultural suicide, and with the more than generous help of a thoroughly corrupt political system, and aided and abetted by an equally corrupt educational establishment, we don't even know it!
Time's running out. Many on the left are convinced we are finally in the long-coveted end game politically, and the rest is just a matter of time.
If Trump defies all odds and ascends to the presidency, and subsequently begins installing what his stated agenda is, this throws the time line of the Great Socialist Victory in to serious question. Hence, the ferocious attacks on not just Trump, but what he stands for.
No place for such things in modern America! Understand that, ignorant peasant?!?!?
I'm a great believer in Constitutional America, it's Founders, it's ideals.
On the very day Donald Trump announced his candidacy, I knew I was all in. I also knew he'd have an awful lot of obstacles thrown in his way, but I'm unwavering.
Donald Trump may not be perfect, maybe even far from it, but he's the last best honest hope this country has.
If you think Cruz will end up being the better candidate to be president, I offer up the historical image of America, fresh off a crushing landslide, waking up one morning in February 1965 to the terrible realization that they'd just elected a man quite inferior to Barry Goldwater to the White House. And it only got worse.
The sleaze factor here is comparable, and it's now on full public display.
Anyone out there, of course, can actively support the man (or woman!) of their choice, but I feel history is on my side, and Donald Trump's as well.
I've said it before in previous posts, and I'll say it again:
WE NEED THIS MAN!
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It is new when they are the majority by such a large margin.
Funny, when Trump plays the “art of the deal” in negotiating the domain rule, it is taking advantage and
a terrible thing. But curz playing the “art of the deal” is not bad.
Let me ask you this: States that have runoff elections when no candidate gets over 50% of the vote in the general election.
Are they just stupid?
Does the person who wins the plurality in the general always win the runoff?
The guy with the most votes will get the nomination....it just might not be your guy!!!
Not the majority. Words mean things.
Good luck with that. But you need to get a majority of the delegates in order to win the nomination. No matter how many impassioned speeches you give.
Pretty tough when the people spoke, their delegates were assigned to Trump, and then some rat boinking lawyer sends his rat minions to the prize table to steal Trump’s cheese because Trump was too naive to assign a watchdog to something he won
And the rat boinker feels real proud of himself for it
I have no problem with that at all. My guy isn’t interested in winning with less votes.
VAST majority.
Not a majority at all. Words means things.
He wouldn't be denied the nomination because Trump has to win this according to the rules in play....you may imagine otherwise but it doesn't change the game rules as they are..... and won't be the first time the electorate has gotten their pants in a knot when they didn't get their way.
Trumps problem is it was ‘late in the game’ before he realized and understood the delegate count, and he knows that....he was basking in all the glitz and glamor of his supporters at his rallies to focus where he needed to. He really didn't know he had to. So now he's trying to make up for the "ground" he should have been covering with the delegates...changing the rules to what he wants and his supporters want isn't going to fly.
No! Your guy is interested in winning with less than the majority....it ain’t gona happen!!!
Delegates can give you a Nomination, but you need voters to become President.
You can silence them if you wish, but then what?
unless they go back to the pre kookpaul rule of five states and a plurality.
Like I said, you can wake around your “rules” victory if you wish. Then you lose.
“The only alternative is not to play their game, but to go a separate way, and form an alternative to their false choice.”
Let me know how that works out.
I don’t know each states rules
Do rules matter anymore? If the loser gets to rewrite them then why bother arguing about rules?
Fine example we set for our kids about the morality of our society.
The loser gets to change the rules .... Now kids, go out there and win! And if you don’t win, find a technicality or demand a rewrite
Not a majority is being “silenced” so it doesn’t really matter.
Trump is an illusion, a con, a charlatan. He’s never going to win the office. Never.
We may have to let him win the nomination and lose ignobly. It may be worth it if all of his supporters take a vow to stay out of politics forever for being such fools.
If Priebus and his minions try and award the nomination to someone other than Cruz or Trump, depending how the vote plays out, then house, senate and state legislature candidates also get crushed. I don't believe they will allow that to happen. I could certainly be wrong because the establishment is about as tone deaf as they come, but in no way is Cruz a part of the establishment.
Trump would absolutely help himself by getting better people to run his campaign and to spend some of that vast wealth to work at the local level. Trump is a cheapskate. He has been for decades. Someone needs to convince him to part ways with some if it.
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