Posted on 04/09/2016 5:25:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ted Cruz's delegate-hunting operation is running rings around Donald Trump's team, and he's making gains because of it.
In North Dakota last weekend and Colorado this weekend, Cruz's team is out-hustling and outmanuevering Donald Trump, probably picking up a majority of unbound and "uncommitted" delegates in both states.
While Donald Trump still holds the 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.
The candidate, after picking up more likely delegate allies than Trump in last weekend's North Dakota convention, has been on a roll in Colorado.
Thirty-four delegates are at stake in the convention process, and the Cruz campaign told Fox News on Friday afternoon it has picked up 15 delegates so far in a series of local GOP meetings. The process culminates Saturday at the state convention where a final 13 delegates will be selected.
In Colorado, delegates can pledge themselves to a candidate or run unbound. Those who do pledge only do so for the first round of voting at the convention in Cleveland. The Cruz campaign says the pro-Cruz delegates selected so far are a mix of pledged and unbound but say they will back Cruz in Cleveland.
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Good link thanks. This looks like a great man for Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IivP2Q12nnQ
Romney, McCain, Dole, Bush, et al. got majorities only because people dropped out when it became clear they couldn't win, and THEN the leader was able to get a majority because there was no one opposing them in the late primaries and they got all the delegates. But had 2 or 3 people stayed in to the bitter end, the way they are doing it this time, then all of them could have been denied majorities.
Don't you get that? It's not hard. It's math.
Oh yeah. Thank goodness we have you here to educate us.
Keep it up. All you’re doing is helping Hillary. But then again, you’re the one that knows how it works so you already know that.
I'm "trying" to say that Trump isn't giving it his best shot because in his heart he knows that he's in this for Hillary.
hAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND??? Go get some brains Mr. Ed you talking horse
you are the one in the gutter no fowl talk here just you
Indeed
GOPe is filling slates with unbounds and dumbass Cruz bots here yell Cruz is a genius
Same bunch ten years ago were yelling Rove you magnificent bastard
Trust me on that
I know my forum....rhetorically
Gee I thought you guys had this nomination sewed up. Now I see Trump is reaching into the GOPe to get help. Manofart ran with Ford to defeat Reagan not all that conservative. apparently...never mind hate to use your words.
hYou are trashy and no lady. You should be assumed at your fowl talk...ok gutter talk. Disgusting!
Anybody know what the heck this “Gentleman” is talking about?? where should I be “assumed”
YES, Sailed, hit the reef 20 miles out on the edge of the shelf, torn the hull open, traversed into the dark deep of Davey Jone’s locker... and settled nicely on the bottom with a big treasure box filled with Goldman Sachs IOU’s.
My first thought as well. Class? Being the super sneaky little insider, using insider tools to stop Trump, yea - real class act.
It’s so beyond Cruz and the cruzettes cheering him on - it’s the filthy scummy GOPe team that is using Teddy the tool and people are falling for this bs.
Sigh
Grow up. You are to new to be dodging lies.
When they have no substantive argument and little knowledge of facts, economics, electoral process, etc., they start calling you names and throw out accusations and ungrammatical rants.
You won!!
Hey now be nice. I hope at least you read her post that started it. I mean you call trump people meanies but Cruz folks are not innocent all the time either.
Actually, republican candidates have in contested races tried to take uncommitted delegates, even to the extent of a second place finisher trying to pass the top candidate from a state. Ronald Reagan did it (but didn't win) in 1976.
There are many stories on the 1976 convention, as one example, and most of them are more or less true and some are online. Reagan and Ford were both trying to take uncommitted delegates from states won by the other.
Fuk the voters, it’s who manipulates and counts the votes behind the scenes that determine a “winner”....
You need to read up. :-)
When they have no substantive argument and little knowledge of facts, economics, electoral process, etc., they start calling you names and throw out accusations and ungrammatical rants.
I see. They are a lot like their leader! Thank you, my friend.
Trump never visited Colorado (too busy in his home state). What can you expect. Besides Manafart already announced his work is to CHANGE MINDS at the delegate level.
Trump does not know how to do that-he does not speak on their level.
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