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Ted Cruz delegate-wrangling operation outclassing Trump
American Thinker ^ | 04/09/2016 | Rick Moran

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.

Fox News:

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Cruz is Mitt’s sock puppet and the GOPe’s butt boy. Next Cruz will be stroking Mitch McConnell.


81 posted on 04/09/2016 7:14:19 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: jospehm20

No, the normal process is getting the 1237 delegates. Rules in place for years are now getting scrutiny because the primary season has gone on longer. Trump has hired Romney’s delegate organizer to do the very same thing that Cruz has done so brilliantly while Trump was ill-prepared- but I guess that’s okay with you.


82 posted on 04/09/2016 7:15:40 PM PDT by austingirl (Cruz 2016)
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To: RightLady

Yes, Trump did have a lot of media exposure, the media couldn’t believe a non-dc-insider could gain so much media attention. The original 15 began to drop out. Then there was 3 (with Rubio holding onto his delegates). Kasich, I think is a spoiler and in the end will give his delegates to Cruz, as will Rubio). The GOPe has kept Kasich in the running (poor thing) to make sure Donald Trump will not win.
A McConnel PAC has been giving money to Cruz since December 2015 to make sure he takes delegates from Trump. When the final delegates (after cruz stealing) Kasich and Rubio will give their delegates to cruz. I imagine this will improve their bank accounts.


83 posted on 04/09/2016 7:20:03 PM PDT by tillacum
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To: lee martell
Ted is taking the process seriously, using his time efficiently,

I remember a high school football coach coming before the school board protesting his dismissal. He argued vehemently that although his team rarely scored a touchdown and never won a game, they always made more first downs than any other team. Adequate offence, poor defence and absolutely terrible excuse. He heard those famous words: You're fired.

84 posted on 04/09/2016 7:24:04 PM PDT by etcb
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To: DeweyCA

“The are of the deal” kind of pays NO attention to the voters and to heck if the citizens want their delegates to vote for other that cruZ? The delegates are for sale? Then why do citizens vote? Why have a caucus?


85 posted on 04/09/2016 7:24:44 PM PDT by tillacum
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To: austingirl

Weasel Canadian lawyers everywhere agree with you.


86 posted on 04/09/2016 7:28:15 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: SeekAndFind

The Trumpets are angry cause we be beating em.


87 posted on 04/09/2016 7:29:21 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Oliver Boliver Butt

Ha! That’s pretty funny. Manafort the true conservative who has worked with those stalwarts of conservatism....Ford, Dole, and the Bushes. I thought associating with the Bushes proved you were a GOPe insider; did that change?


I’m sure this was just an oversight on your part, but you left Reagan off the list. Manafort worked for Reagan on ‘80.


88 posted on 04/09/2016 7:30:26 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: jospehm20

You are impervious to facts. Why is Trump trying to get 1237 delegates? Why has he hired Romney’s delegate wrangler? Have a great evening.


89 posted on 04/09/2016 7:33:24 PM PDT by austingirl (Cruz 2016)
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To: tillacum

Cruz can do whatever he wants. Trump got the votes at the ballot box. No Trump voters, No GOP in November. It would bea holocaust on the GOP ticket from top to bottom. Would be a lot of unemployed GOPers so that’s not going to happen.

Cruz is just trying to make it so messy that Trump loses the general and he can run in 2022. So we get all this psywar BS. No worries.


90 posted on 04/09/2016 7:36:07 PM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: SeekAndFind
Cruz has nothing to be proud of. Why should people vote in the primary if someone like a sleazy lawyer is going to manipulate the delegate vote.

Very bizarre situation that the Cruz campaign is engaged in and the Cruz campaign continues to be very brazen and boastful about their attempt to disenfranchise the voters. No doubt they have tried this in every state, so it's not about, well this is what every nominee before Cruz did mantra. Quite the opposite, Cruz is disgusting in his attempt to disenfranchise millions of voters who want Trump to be the nominee.

Cruz needs to accept that the majority of people prefer Trump. That is a fact.

91 posted on 04/09/2016 7:38:45 PM PDT by E20erer (#AlwaysTrump)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

You obviously are unfamiliar with how things work as what you suggest cannot happen.


92 posted on 04/09/2016 7:41:29 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Pollster1

Never before has a Republican nominee attempted to over rule the will of the majority of a states electorates wishes in a primary.

Cruz is crass, smarmy and egotistical to think he can be a slick lawyer and over rule people in a state he has barely visited. Cruz’s behavior and actions of going after the delegates in states he lost is very disturbing. Gloat all you want, but just know this is just one more reason why Cruz will continue to lose.

Disenfranchisement Cruz is one of his new names.


93 posted on 04/09/2016 7:42:44 PM PDT by E20erer (#AlwaysTrump)
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To: dynoman

Trump: I’ll pay for my own GOPe whores, thank you. Should Trump win he will meet a whole new set of GOPe whores.


94 posted on 04/09/2016 7:42:57 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (The most vocal supporters of a good con man are the victims.)
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To: Neu Pragmatist

Well id Cruz loses to Hillary I will take solace in the fact that we placed the best man to head the ticket.


95 posted on 04/09/2016 7:43:29 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: moehoward

“Trump will either have it going in or have plans in place to cover any minor shortfalls.”

You people really need to educate yourself as to how this actually works.


96 posted on 04/09/2016 7:44:43 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Mike Darancette

Yeah. Meanwhile Ted is frantically fluffing all the establishment elites he can get close to.


97 posted on 04/09/2016 7:44:52 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: traderrob6

Yes, that’s it , lose on supposed principle - again ..although Cruz is very Liberal on a few issues ...


98 posted on 04/09/2016 7:46:10 PM PDT by Neu Pragmatist (It's Now or Never ...Trump Now More Than Ever ...Defeat the Cruz GOPe)
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To: austingirl

I am not impervious to facts. I just don’t like Canadian weasels and their shenanigans.


99 posted on 04/09/2016 7:48:23 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Did Romney, McCain, Bush, Dole and Bush have to hire people to get the delegates they won in state primaries sent to the national convention? Or are these "rules" you and other cruzbots keep referring to really a way of saying that the Republican party controls national, state and county parties, and so can overcome the will of the voters of their party by shenanigans that an upstart could never do anything about? Isn't that what you really mean?

They can play this game if they want, but it will end in the destruction of the Republican party. The voters want to take it over and kick out all the bums, but the party apparently has controls in place so that the rubes who vote for Republicans can't do that.

I have heard what Trump is doing compared to a hostile takeover of a corporation, but others have said it is more of a shareholder revolt to replace the board of directors. I think the latter is more apt. However, this corporation has a board that has ways to tell the shareholders to take a hike and go to hell. Of course, by doing that, the corporation will go under, but the board doesn't care, they have all been guaranteed huge golden parachutes.

100 posted on 04/09/2016 7:50:13 PM PDT by Defiant (The Shills are alive, with the sound of Cruz-ick....)
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