Hard data and graphs at site.
“Based on the state’s winner-take-all system, Trump ended up with 37 delegates to Cruz’s 15. Under Trump’s definition of ‘stealing,’ did he steal from Cruz, or were those the rules?”
No, moron, because PEOPLE GOT TO VOTE.
Let’s stop playing games and make it winner takes all!
Lyin’ Trump stealing delegates! Donny Kardashian isn’t on twitter talking about that??
Hilarious!
Hey, let’s do that thing liberals do where you attack somebody and accuse them of doing the very thing you are doing.
Moron. One was a primary where all citizens who chose to vote,
voted in a primary...for a candidate.
CO was a “convention” where you voted for a “delegate”.
What kind of moron equates the two?
Of course not. No complaint about a winner take all based on a vote has been raised. People generally understand and accept that some states do winner-take-all delegates, and some do proportional delegates, and there are reasonable arguments for both systems of how to distribute delegate slots per people who see themselves as voting for candidates.
Cheating is when one candidate wins a delegate slot, but the delegate put in that slot is not loyal to the candidate that one the slot but is chosen by another or bribed.
I have confidence that most people that support Cruz would agree with this simple distinction, and only people who are feverish over the top supporters of Cruz would ask something so silly.
Not possible because everything I have read since Saturday is that Cruz is to smart for that bumpkin Trump.
Isn’t Mark Levin editor-in-chief of Conservative Review?
Tuesday 15 March 2016: All 52 delegates to the Republican National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders in today’s Missouri Presidential Primary.
If a candidate receives a majority of the statewide vote (more than 50%), the 52 pledged delegates are bound to that candidate.
If no candidate receives a majority of the vote:
The candidate with the most votes in each of the state’s 8 congressional district receives 5 delegates (3 Congressional District delegates and 2 at-large delegates).
The candidate with the most votes statewide receives 12 delegates (the remaining at-large and bonus delegates plus the 3 RNC delegates).
Reference:
17 March - http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/potential-missouri-recount-process-could-take-months/article_a8e255b1-7ae7-5299-8524-ba884529b711.html “On Wednesday, the Missouri Republican Party announced Trump had won 37 delegates, and Cruz won 15.”,
16 March - http://patch.com/missouri/stcharles/missouri-republican-caucus-results-donald-trump-ted-cruz-tight-race,
16 March - http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/03/missouri_recounts_possible_aft.html,
16 March - http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/16/politics/super-tuesday-missouri-delegates.
Primary
Source: 2016 Presidential Preference Primary Unofficial Results by Congressional Districts from the Missouri Secretary of State
Contest Trump Cruz
CD1 39,004 5 14,417 36.963% 5 13,775 35.317%
CD2 143,883 5 53,288 37.036% 5 51,772 35.982%
CD3 143,350 5 63,600 44.367% 5 56,207 39.210%
CD4 128,937 5 53,099 41.182% 53,826 41.746% 5
CD5 77,380 5 29,994 38.762% 30,543 39.471% 5
CD6 124,715 5 51,269 41.109% 5 48,568 38.943%
CD7 150,107 5 54,058 36.013% 75,307 50.169% 5
CD8 128,418 5 62,368 48.566% 5 50,369 39.223%
Statewide 935,794 12 382,093 40.831% 12 380,367 40.646%
Total
Delegates 52 37 15
CD1: Winner-take-all for Trump.
CD2: Winner-take-all for Trump.
CD3: Winner-take-all for Trump.
CD4: Winner-take-all for Cruz.
CD5: Winner-take-all for Cruz.
CD6: Winner-take-all for Trump.
CD7: Winner-take-all for Cruz.
CD8: Winner-take-all for Trump.
Statewide: Winner-take-all for Trump.
Votes cast for any candidate who dies, releases his or her delegates, withdraws, or becomes inactive prior to the primary will not be counted in the calculation.
National Convention delegates are bound on the first ballot unless that candidate dies, releases his or her delegates, withdraws, or becomes inactive.
Dear Author of article,
If you don’t know the clear and right answer to that question, then your brain has even less substance than your dumb article.
Sincerely,
Disgusted with horrible reporting.
Deceitful Don cheats again, disenfranchising voters.
The yellow truck wins by the paint on its bumper by hitting an illegal nitro booster on the home stretch: "The other driver needs to learn to drive."So are all of Trump’s delegates in those states also Cruz operatives? Because that is what we have been talking about. In Arizona where Trump won over Cruz by 2 to 1 every delegate is a Cruz operative. That is cheating and it is immoral. If you are sent to the convention to represent voters who voted for a candidate, you damn well should be representing them. All the Cruz people here pretending like there is anything right about that are just proving that they are hypocrites.
What does one have to do with the other?
So when a presidential candidate wins an election(one with voters), he/she should only win presidency over half of the country?
The difference is the 12 delegate bonus was given to THE WINNER OF MOST VOTES. Not given out at a brunch.
I’m curious can any of you Trump supporters tell me when it was Cruz wrote the rules for the Colorado election, if not what makes Cruz responsible for the injustice you percieve to have occurred in Colorado?
Different states and different issues.
Twist it all you want - the People voted and the standing rules were put into effect - there were no back room, out of the public eye, deals being made to thwart the voters.