Posted on 04/16/2016 5:51:19 PM PDT by bobsunshine
Donald Trump supporters walked out of a delegate election in Georgia Saturday to protest a vote that robbed Trump of all of his slated delegates from a district that he won in the primary.
A Cruz-Rubio alliance at the district convention in Buford, Georgia helped to knock Trump supporters out of the district’s national delegation altogether. Cruz supporters implied that Trump’s people would “embarrass” the district at the convention in Cleveland. Then things got heated.
“This morning, I attended Georgia 7th Congressional District GOP convention as a delegate and a Donald Trump supporter. We were there to elect the 3 delegates and 3 alternates to the national convention,” Ronnie Kurtz told Breitbart News. “Per the primary results, two slots were for Trump, and one was for Rubio. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97% Cruz finished third in the primary and had no delegates allotted to him…Nonetheless, the hall was stacked with Cruz delegates.”
On the first ballot, the party voted on a delegate slate that would have taken away one of Trump’s delegates but would have, at least, still given him one representative. That bloc would have given Trump supporter Debbie Dooley one of the slots and a Cruz supporter named Carolyn Fisher another slot, with a Rubio slot going to local party convention chairman BJ Van Gundy. But Cruz supporters voted down that slate.
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What I don’t understand is the people who support a guy who can’t win more than 4 primary states where the people vote and then think he would win in a general.”
The people who support Cruz know he cannot win in the general. Cruz supporters want Shillery to win. A vote in the primary for Cruz means we will get her heinous. It matters not whether the GOPe dumps Cruz for Romney or Jebito, Hillary wins. And Cruz supporters know that and do not care one whit.
CORRECTAMUNDO !!!
Questions for you to support or claim false
1. You were at the Georgia 7th Congressional District GOP convention. True?
2. 3 delegates and 3 alternates to the national convention were to be elected. True?
3. 2 slots were to be for Trump and 1 for Rubio. None were allotted to Cruz. True?
4. Nonetheless, the hall was stacked with Cruz delegates. True?
Anyone who wants to know why I will not vote for Ted Cruz it is because of antics like this. Scruz the GOP.
Way to win friends and influence people, Trumpertantrums!
Whatever you say.
This is a pretty concise report of what happened;
http://www.georgiapol.com/2016/04/16/3183/#more-3183
Don’t be trying to confuse them with facts.
Not true. There was a vote. Hardly anyone showed up but they did vote. Cruz won big. 66% voted for him last month.
Cruz had 12 Bound delegates as a result. The rest were bound at the convention.
Sorry, but claiming Wyoming didn’t vote is isn’t factually honest.
And you speak with some authority on delusionality.
If three horses run a race and one quits before the half way point, the second place finisher does not get a win because it and the third place finisher ran a greater total of furlongs.
Many analogies could apply.
Result, Cruz did not win, he rarely wins head to head.
“it is at best delusional”
CMB meet manc.
Can you give me next week’s lottery numbers?
Otherwise we are down to “Cruz won’t win” vs. “Trump won’t win”. And we can argue it with all the certainty of a global warming “Scientists” without getting anywhere.
Cruz didn’t win a single county in the entire state of Georgia, and he came in third in the state overall. The people of Georgia chose Trump by a significant margin. Doesn’t the GOP realize that continually showing contempt for their voters and circumventing their wishes time and again is going to alienate a huge chunk of their base, perhaps to the point of rending the party in two and losing most future elections? Is this underhanded gamesmanship really worth that? Do they really hate their voters this much?
no, I merely asked a question of which you did not answer.
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