Posted on 04/08/2016 3:20:50 AM PDT by kevcol
"You have only one choice, one choice that will stop the Clinton political machine: John Kasich. Don't be fooled, Ted Cruz can't win the nomination outright and he can't defeat Hillary Clinton either. John Kasich will win the convention and he'll defeat Hillary Clinton in the fall. Wanna stop the Clinton machine and win the White House? Your only choice is John Kasich," the ad spokesman says.
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The Empire State's April 18 primary is expected to go to Trump, who leads second-place Kasich by more than 30 points, according to a Real Clear Politics average. Kasich's ad makes no mention of the Manhattan real estate mogul though.
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While I support Trump, this is exactly how the vetting process works. Even in the General election, if no one gets the number of delegates it falls the the House I think.
Do you listen to yourself? Cruz has fewer delegates than Trump, will lose even more ground and is keeping one man from having the requisite delegates to make a smooth segue to the nomination. Except for his collaboration with the GOPe/RNC/MSM , Cruz would be another casualty on the road. He picked up the ball and ran t backwards to score points for the opposing team and is waiting to do it again and again if need be to stop Trump even though he knows he is clouding the waters with muck - we will be so disorganized and discouraged that we might as well cede the election to Hillary/Bernie/Sean Penn or anyone else the Left decides to nominate.
Wonder if Donors are happy knocking Ted below 10%
I certainly hope so; Trump needs all the help he can get with women. Women generally like Kasich, odd as that may seem to FR.
No, actually that is exactly how primaries (and caucuses as the state party sees fit) and state conventions are supposed to operate.
Both major parties have followed the wisdom the Founders showed in the original Constitution with indirect election of Senators and the Electoral College in building restraints on popular enthusiasms into their presidential nominating processes. The nomination always takes place as a result of action by the party convention. Primaries and caucuses and state conventions select slates of delegates which may or may not be bound to vote for particular candidates on the first ballot (or first and second ballots), and both parties include unbound delegates from the party hierarchy (ironically, given both their party’s name and their contempt for the Founders wisdom, the “Democrats” have a larger groups of such undemocratically selected delegates than the Republicans).
Just to point out -
The GOP’s automatic delegates have been elected in their own right as state party chairs or RNC members. They just don’t need to be elected again specifically to be convention delegates.
And GOP automatic delegates are subject to the same rules for delegate vote allocation as other delegates.
Would not surprise me. Kasich is not the top of my list for a VP, but Kasich will help deliver OH to Trump in November and help put MI and WI in play.
If Trump goes with Kasich, Trump will only need to win on his own just under 1,100 delegates. He’ll do that easily with wins in NY, CA, NJ, MA and CT.
The game for Cruz isn’t over, but the outcome has been decided. Just a matter of the clock running down to zero.
If he stays in they’ll give it to him at the brokered convention instead of Cruz. After all, he polls best against Clinton.
Remember when the media was pushing for Repub candidates to get out because they were low in the polls or failed to win a certain primary? Now its been a month or so since Rubio quit and freaking Kasich, who HASNT WON A DAMN THING, and has no chance in any primary IS STILL THERE. Notice how no one in the media is telling this loser to GTFO! He will not be VP, he will not be the nominee in a contested convention. The little Shite needs to stop stroking himself and GET OUT!
Same reason Cruz will stay in when he is mathematically eliminated in NY.
Not with the BERNIE vs BEAST battle brewing.
Proud of Ted though...went there is full knowledge that he would be totally flamed.
And walked head on into the fire.
Unlike some who shrink at the site of a blonde.
heh.
Jedi.
Says who? It’s up to each state do decide the rules of their own primary or caucus.
We ended up here because a Rino from the North East was able to fool some on the right and some Evangers into voting for him.
Jedi.
No wonder you don't mind Cruz stealing delegates!
The history of those running has been to concede to the front runner when the candidate sees he cannot win the majority of the delegates.
At no time has someone stayed in just to prevent the front runner from getting the needed delegates to take the nomination to the convention.
This is against the spirit of the primaries.
The Democrats, rejecting their own voters, have instituted the Super Delegates, to decide who wins their nomination and still give the illusion that their voters are choosing the candidate, when we know it is the Party bosses who are doing it.
If all GOP primaries are run like this one, primaries will be meaningless, since the nominating process will always end up back in the convention.
The elites of both parties are terrified of losing power and are circumventing the will of their voters.
Jeb Bush dropped out because he saw he was rejected and could not win.
Now, we have Kasich, who has only won one State, hanging around as if he is a legitimate candidate, which he isn't.
If all nominations were held like this one, it will always end up at the convention, with the Party bosses deciding who is going to be the candidate, not the voters.
This is now what the GOPe wants since they see their candidates have been totally rejected by the grassroots.
As the campaign season moves on, there should be only two candidates left to see who the voter's truly want, not one whose only purpose is to draw votes away from the frontrunner so he can't get the majority of delegates.
This goes against the spirit of primaries and will result in all future nominations either farces, with the voters not voting, or back in the convention so the elites can choose their candidate.
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