Posted on 04/18/2016 2:51:08 AM PDT by markomalley
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told reporters at a press conference Sunday in Staten Island that the Republican primary nomination process is “rigged” against him and he refuses to play by the rules established by GOP state party committees he deems unfair.
“I don’t want to play the rule game, because I’ll tell you what, we live in a democracy and it’s all about getting the bosses out. The bosses are picking. Now I’m winning, you will say. I’m wining by 200 delegates. I’m winning, more importantly in my opinion, I’m winning by 2 million votes. In other words I’ve gotten more than 2 million votes,” Trump said, when asked why he does not work within the rules different state contests have.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz swept up all of Wyoming’s available delegates at the state’s GOP convention Saturday night. Although Wyoming Republican voters caucused on March 12 at local conventions to begin the delegate election process, Trump and his supporters called it a voter-less primary.
A similar situation occurred in Colorado where Cruz delegates won all the open slots to go to the convention through a process that began at local caucuses on March 1.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus fired back at Trump this week for accusing the party of having a rigged system.
New York Republican Rep. Peter King told Fox News earlier on Sunday that the “system is what it is.” Ohio Gov. John Kasich as well as Cruz could call the New York primary unfair too, should Trump win at least 50 percent of the GOP vote statewide and receive at least 50 percent of the Republican votes in most or all of the Empire State’s congressional districts.
“He may get 53 or 54 percent of the vote, but if he gets 100 percent of the delegates, now, Cruz or Kasich could say, ‘That’s unfair.’ The very nature of a nominating process is always — Iowa has caucuses. Some have open primaries. Others just have local conventions. That’s just the way it’s been and it’s not meant to be easy. Whatever it is, I don’t see it as an attempt to stop Donald Trump,” King said. “These rules have been in effect in one way or another, with their idiosyncracies, for one hundred years. And in some cases, others get changed every few years, but that’s part of running for president. you have to learn how to navigate the minefields,” he added.
Repeating the same lies for the 500 time isn’t going to make them true.
>oh yeah...NY is a real example of US voters. flaming libs, big gov’t, high taxation, total control of the individual.
Didn’t Texas pass a law outlawing martial aids that Ted Cruz defended in court? Sounds a bit like a total control of the individual.
Not a democracy and yet little Don jr. Was on Fox this morning repeating in the broken record speech pattern that must be an inherited trait, “we live in a Democracy we live in a Democracy!” No one challenged that as far as I know because I turned it off in the middle of his segment. Just cannot stand listening to it any longer. Ben Franklin warned us about Donald Trump.
Our constitutional system has been corrupted by made up Dem and GOP rules and needs to be reset to original conditions to stop these conflicts.
Cruz is too busy making sure the caucuses illegally eliminate all Trump delegates to publicly "correct Trump's ignorance of the system."
Very clear - republic versus democracy.
I’m very concerned that the zealots that are advocating for Trump are far less wise than our Founding Fathers.
Civics 101
And 95 delegates! Go trump! Don’t forget New York supports the southern states. Without New York, Alabama and South Carolina and most southern states would die financially.
Remember that, wasn't so long ago.
Are you saying since Algore got more votes, he should have been President?
...that's what Trump is saying about himself now.
The rules have been in place for almost a year, why not whine about them back then?
Well they blew it right there then, didn't they...
So which body of citizens does the Republic represent, that majority which is in agreement or the minority which opposes the majority???
The fact is the power must rest in the representatives that represent that majority of citizens, NOT a representation of the minority as we are told the Party rules allow...The caveat being the minority receives the same rights and privileges as the majority...
So while we are not a true democracy we are not a republic either...What we have is Party rule (the rich and powerful), NOT citizen rule (of the people, by the people, for the people)...
In no way should the minority candidate be entitled to the delegates of the majority candidate unless that candidate has dropped out of the race...
There should be no unbound delegates...There should be only two candidates left coming into the national convention...
Uh....Donald. Al Gore "won" by 2 million votes, too. You apparently haven't noticed, since you weren't a politician then, but he didn't become president.
Every Republic has rules. You can't follow your own, and then just whine and snivel when you don't win. If you don't like tackle football, don't play it.
Our form of government is not a democracy.
Trump is a Democrat Socialist, just like Sanders.
We live in a Constitutional Republic, not a “Democracy”. Democracy is the tyranny of the 50.1%, or in Liberal Donnie’s case the 12%. Trump has the support of about 35% of “republicans” who are 35% of voters or about 12% of the country.
“Are you saying since Algore got more votes, he should have been President?
...that’s what Trump is saying about himself now.”
Minor difference - people actually DID vote in Bush / Gore.
Disgusting Cruzers will even justify denying people a vote if it helps the Canadian lawyer.
Mob rule I believe was the Founders opinion of a democracy.
We’re an anarchy, too, by your logic.
I would also think that we should keep in mind that Party politics (regardless of which one) are NOT protected by the Constitution.
Someone please find the citation in the USConstitution that “protects” any political “party” during a primary season. As a matter of fact, give me the citation that calls/protects what we now call a “primary election” at all.
I guess “Representative Republic with democratically elected representatives” is too many words for people these days.
The US is actually a Republic. It is governed by rule of law. The elected are bound by oath to the written governing limits (i.e. Constitution) yet vote “together” and create laws to address concerns of the represented in a democratic way. The problem today is the people we “elect” to represent us don’t always follow the wishes of the majority of those who elected them, most do what their PAC’s tell them to do.
In the case of Colorado and Wyoming, the people had no say at all on the selection of delegates, just party bosses. I don’t think that is what a republic or a democracy should do. We the people got left out in those two states.
Parliamentary systems are also contain facets of democracy but are not true democracies.
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