Posted on 04/11/2016 5:18:55 PM PDT by lodi90
In the race for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump would seem to be in the catbird seat. He has won the most states, the most delegates and the most votes – by nearly 2 million.
He has brought out the largest crowds and is poised for huge wins in the largest states of the East, New York and Pennsylvania.
Yet, there is a growing probability that the backroom boys will steal the nomination from him at a brokered convention in Cleveland.
Over the weekend, Colorado awarded all 34 delegates to Ted Cruz. The fix had been in since August, when party officials, alarmed at Trump’s popularity, decided it would be best if Colorado Republicans were not allowed to vote on the party’s nominee.
After all, these poor folks might get it wrong.
In South Carolina, where Trump swept the primary, a plot is afoot for a mass desertion of Trump delegates after the first ballot.
The Republican Party in Georgia, another state Trump won, is also talking up delegate defections.
In state after state, when Trump wins, and moves on, the apparatchiks arrive – to thieve delegates for Cruz.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
If Ted Bush and his GOP e buddies have anything to say about it, yes he will.
Even Rush understands this:
“Make no mistake, the Republican powers that be do not want Trump, and they don’t want Cruz. They did want Jeb. They wouldn’t mind Kasich. They are drooling over Paul Ryan. And they would take Romney again.”
Trump’s a really smart guy, you can’t swindle him.
Did you know that...
Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski fired Trump’s Colorado state director, James Baker, shortly before this week’s state convention.<<
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/08/politics/republican-colorado-michigan-convention/
That wouldn’t have anything to do with Trump’s responsibility for writing off Colorado?
DK
Why doesn’t Trump give Cruz his cut of the delegates in Florida?
SoreLoser Trump is not such a great deal maker after all. He didn’t even show up in Colorado for the caucus. Cruz did. He did not learn the rules. What he team did do was riddled with costly errors. It is there own dang fault.
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http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1057
Yep dumb Cruz voters....ha! Sorry no such thing. Well Ryan just put out a video showing how great congress is doing...ha! But the media is calling it very presidential. This country is cooked and Cruz is turning up the heat to its destruction.
You are dumb! Trump got Florida with voters. If Cruz would have gotten Colorado with voters. No big deal. But that is not what happened and you know it. I never thought I’d see so many communist on this site and you are number 1 communist of all.
And the Cruzers here are out “baying at the moon” now over this “collusion” between the Trump and K-sick campaigns to keep Cruz from a repeat performance of delegate stealing in Michigan. It isn't that Cruz is again “diddling the system” because he's unable to win much of anything head on, but rather that now K-sick is Trump's running mate. But then Cruz is a sleazy lawyer, so what he's doing is completely in character for his “kind.” As a group, I've never seen anything like the Cruzers growing lists of excuses and ad hominem attacks to support a candidate they must know in the back of their small minds is not very likely to win the nomination. And my gut tells me that these are the same rigid “iealogues” who have been staying home from the polls because the nominee “doesn't meet their specs," and in so doing, accepting that we have a president who's far worse than they guy they don't like.
nope in was in aug 2015 and Carson was leading there and Trump was ahead of cruzer loser at the time.
Only to their dismay, and dismay it will be unless their utter intent is to elect billary.
The question is will he ever stop crying?
ROFL
Those two images are classic! ;-)
“But because they are giving the stolen delegates to Cruz’s sheep, they are okay with it.”
The ‘rules’ were known on and since October 1st, 2015. Trump dropped the ball in CO.
Win a majority of the delegates before the convention and you win the nomination. It’s pretty straight forward.
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