Posted on 04/09/2016 5:06:24 AM PDT by McGruff
The shadow battle for Republican convention delegates turns next to Colorado, where a days-long selection process will culminate this weekend -- and once again, it seems Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has the edge.
While Donald Trump still holds a wide delegate lead in the GOP presidential primary race, his Achilles heel has been a perceived weakness in his ground game. Seeking to capitalize on this, Cruz has outmaneuvered Trump lately in the behind-the-scenes battle for delegates in places that don't assign them through traditional primaries or caucuses.
Enter states like North Dakota, and now Colorado.
Both eschewed traditional primary elections and instead held conventions -- where delegates not necessarily bound to any candidate are selected. Cruz saw this as an opportunity anyway to get allies elected to the slate, banking on their support in the event of an open convention.
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THE PEOPLE showed up for the 2/26/16 CO precinct caucuses. Trump supporters were apparently too busy WE WEing around to attend and to commit to attending the subsequent higher level conventions, and their leader bailed on attending the state convention. If you aren’t willing to get organized to do the work to run one state party how can we trust you to run the country? THE PEOPLE who bothered to show up determined what followed. And now the Trump supporters are WE WEed off about what happened. Learn from it and grow up!
Re the CO. caucus description:
That’s what they did at my District caucus in Missouri today. I wanted to be sure we had our allotted Trump delegates to go to State next month, and the percentage due him from this district. But it was a sham - the entire slate of 91 delegates and 91 alternates had been chosen by the Party, and we were “blessed” with having all 182 names read to us, with no opportunity to find out who they would vote for on the behalf of we, the primary voters, or to challenge anybody. I recognized only two of the names, and one I know is for Cruz. The only thing we (hundreds of people, lots of Trump supporters) were allowed to do was propose amendments to the platform they already had. The platform was fine for the state, and who cares?
The most noticeable thing there was dozens of Cruz operatives in their red “Cruz” T-shirts. The small group of Trump supporters I found and sat with were stunned, appalled and furious. We have no idea how many MO delegates for Trump might get out of the State convention in May.
That was my first and last “caucus”. We were only there to be told what the Party already decided.
The Cruznadian Washington Cartel Elite never sleep. Would you if the important things in life to you were on the line: Sex, Wealth, Power. And you stood to lose everything you’d worked for, to get into that position, all your career?
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