Posted on 04/06/2016 10:15:33 AM PDT by Steelfish
ANALYSIS: Donald Trump Grows Weaker, Setting Up Further Republican Chaos
By Rick Klein Apr 5, 2016
Wisconsin will go down as the state that turned the tide –- or that turns the minds of anxious Republicans to what might have been.
Donald Trump’s loss proves a point the anti-Trump forces have been making with varying intensity for months. He was blown out, losing broadly and decisively in a big battleground state, in a winnowed field and in a primary that was open to independents as well as GOP regulars.
“Tonight is a turning point. It is a rallying cry,” Ted Cruz said in declaring victory, in words that his erstwhile enemies in the Republican establishment would gladly endorse at this point in the race.
Trump’s support is stalling among Republican voters, and his failure to close out his rivals speaks to his potential weakness in a general election. Tuesday’s results show the GOP frontrunner can be beaten soundly in places where the case against Trump is prosecuted in a sustained way -– and perhaps helped along when Trump himself plays into those arguments with his own behavior.
With a Trump ceiling coming in to focus, his path to a majority of convention delegates has never been narrower. Strikingly, more than a third of Republicans in Wisconsin exit polls say they’d be scared under a Trump presidency, with another two in 10 saying they’d be concerned. Trump was uncharacteristically silent Tuesday night, as if he had nothing good to say. Cruz is by far the biggest beneficiary of the anti-Trump sentiments. Wisconsin delivered the kind of cross-demographic victory that, to date, only Trump has managed in an electorally significant state.
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Yes, but not a swinger state, so you probably won't see Roger Stone there.
It’s not stealing if you are ahead. The Delegates should have the good sense to Nominate the more successful vote earner.
Cruz can't win the nomination outright and that will be made very clear by next week.
So, his goal has been to prepare for a convention fight, and stop Trump from winning outright, discounting the voters who voted for him.
It's not stealing if Trump does it. They were rightfully his in the first place because Trump is the anointed one. And we should amend the Constitution so the electoral college doesn't require a majority anymore to further legitimize Trump's candidacy.
Trump got 32.5% of the vote in South Carolina and 100% of the 50 delegates. So which voters is it that were discounted by this process again?
And so do his supporters.
After next week, when Trump wins NY and Cruz has no shot at the nomination outright, we will see what Cruz's real goal is.
How about all the one’s that voted against Cruz?
I guess everyone is a graduate of New Math. There is no way in hell that SCruz will reach 1237. And if you think the GOPe is going to allow SCruz to win on the floor, well, OK. Psssst, I have a bridge for you!
“Do you think maybe Jeb and Graham are supporting Cruz over Trump because of Trump’s relentless insults and/or harassment of them? “
Harassment? What are you some college millennial? That is the most bizarre attempt at painting them as victims I’ve ever seen.
#2 they are “supporting him” so he can suck up delegates, so they can dump him at the convention.
There you go, thinking in simple terms again - if Cruz can't get a majority of delegates before the convention, then Trump will win the nomination, right? Wrong. All Cruz and Kasich need is about 250 delegates between the two of them to force an open convention. At that point, Cruz is by far the best positioned to win a contested convention.
Giving out someone’s personal phone # on national TV is harassment.
Yeah, is it Canada or the USA? Choices, choices, choices?
Awfully boring, isn’t it?
But Trump cannot win.
He’s got only himself to blame. He coulda been a contendah.
Interesting that so many people in the exit polls said a Trump presidency is scary.
It is.
Even Trump does not know what he will say or think when he wakes up in the morning.
We have to wait for his tweet.
Fox News suggested a couple of weeks hiatus might be a good choice for Trump.
Once your momentum drops as precipitously as Trump’s has done in the last month, it is doubtful that it can be regained even if Trump were to pull back and act normal for a while.
Cruz’ goal is what he said in his speech last night, to win 1237 delegates either before or at the convention. From what I heard last night, Kasich and Rubio might be able to release their delegates on the first ballot, so Cruz could lobby for those. There is also a hefty chunk of unbound delegates, mostly from 3 states, that Cruz would lobby for. So if Trump falls short of 1237 even by 1 delegate, Cruz could theoretically win on the first ballot by getting all the unbound delegates to vote for him.
Go back and replay Teds losing tuesdays.
The only thing that’s sad about Trump losing the nomination ... and it’s only a teeny bit sad ... is that we won’t get to see him debate Hillary.
Now, that would be entertainment.
Rita, sorry but this is not just one state.
It is a state that Trump thought he could win but lost decisively.
Were you at all upset about the way Trump acted after the loss?
If he were my candidate I would be in total cringe mode.
It is symbolic of Trump’s downfall.
That is not ‘little Teddy’ as you so cutely call him, it is Ted Cruz on his own beating Trump ... and it is Trump beating himself.
Don’t be mad at Cruz or me. Be mad at your own candidate who has shot himself in the foot so many times he can barely walk to the mirror to do his comb over.
In this link, it states California is proportional. I’ve also read it is winner take all. If it’s winner take all by congressional district, then it’s proportional. Correct?
LOL.
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