The Trump Voter Handbook (Pt 2): That Curious Mr. Cruz

Intellectual Froglegs ^ | 4/18/16 | Intellectual Froglegs

[dontreadthis]

About those ‘party rules’… ‘Rules that can be manipulated by the PARTY BOSSES to cancel a vote after the primary season under way– are not rules —it’s called strategy. And it absolutely IS crooked as hell. On August 25, when Colorado Party Bosses canceled the VOTE…Trump had just emerged as the CLEAR ‘double digit’ Frontrunner. And the candidates were prepping for their 2nd debate… Of course the intent was to block Trump.

[D-fendr]

>>>I’m amazed at the way this thing got legs

Nah, it follows the way this thing has gone. Trump is absurd and people still follow him, parrot his absurdity, media still covers him...

We have arrived at Bizaaro World.

[Aria]

oops...I meant to say that Cruz really DOES think he’s smarter than everyone else.

Long day at work on the computer keyboard :-(

[The Continental Op]

Oh My! They canceled a non-binding straw poll.
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No. One of their stated reasons for canceling the straw poll was that the GOP national rules decreed that straw polls would be counted as primaries.
In other words, it would have been binding. The GOP national rules did away with non-binding straw polls.

[D-fendr]

Take Wyoming as an example of Trump’s ‘voterless’ elections, cheats, disenfranchise...

Which voters weren’t allowed to vote? What ballots were manipulated?

Is Trump only complaining where he loses? What about states where the rules give him other candidates votes/delegates? Are those voters disenfranchised?

[altura]

The cancellation of that non-binding straw poll was ... well, it was the end of the world as we know it.

It was horrific, sickening and it cheated Trump out of a rightful win.

[altura]

Clue.

Just for you. They didn’t want to spend the money and the GOP does not dictate how state primaries are run.

At least for now, unless Trump gets his way and cancels states rights altogether.

[RedWulf]

Amazing post. Thank you.

[Kellis91789]

There are over ONE MILLION registered Republicans in Colorado.

How many actually cast a ballot ?

Please provide a link with the vote counts.

[E20erer]

Wow

Collusion, disenfranchisement and possibly breaking federal election law by a sitting senator. Why in the world would a sitting supposed constitutional lawyer brag about voters not being allowed to vote in a primary? Who does that?

A sitting Senator of the US possibly colluding with CO state election officials to keep his opponents voters from voting in a primary has potentially violated the the 15th Amendment of the Constitution and The voting rights act of 1965 by singling out a specific group voters and denying their right to vote,

Evidence: Exhibit A:

[The Continental Op]

“Clue.

Just for you. They didn’t want to spend the money and the GOP does not dictate how state primaries are run.”
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Thank you. Here’s a clue for you, from the 4/16/16 Weekly Standard:

“Colorado had traditionally held a non-binding straw poll at those caucuses. But in its most recent rules, the Republican National Committee barred such straw polls unless they bounded national delegates to presidential candidates. In late summer 2015, the state party had a decision to make: Should delegates be bound by the preference vote on caucus day, the same way delegates from Iowa and other states are selected? Or should the state get rid of the caucus-day preference vote and use the convoluted delegate selection process?”

BTW, this is exactly what the head of the Colorado GOP. Also reported by several other news outlets.

[Freedom56v2]

thanks for posting :)

[D-fendr]

You seem unaware of the Colorado delegate selection process.

Perhaps that was Trump’s problem as well?

[chris37]

What does it mean in Georgia?

[E20erer]

This happened in CO and Cruz camp was very loose in their operations to disenfranchise voters. Too late for them, as this issue is not going away with how Cruz supposedly worked to disenfranchise anyone who supporter Trump and/or the general CO primary voter just in case they might vote for Trump.

[D-fendr]

>>>In late summer 2015, the state party had a decision to make: Should delegates be bound by the preference vote on caucus day , the same way delegates from Iowa and other states ..

And, as they said at the time, they didn’t want their delegates to be bound to candidates who could drop out before the convention.

In August, they choose to keep vote in the caucus/convention method. All candidates, same rules. Somehow this is unfair to Trump.

Trump lost; it’s unfair to Trump.

[Arthur McGowan]

Thx!

[Arthur McGowan]

Thx!

[D-fendr]

>>>to disenfranchise voters.

Repeating a Trump lie.

All registered republicans could vote.

[RedWulf]

>All registered republicans could vote.

For president?

[LucyT]

# 27 w video was pulled.

video on the page at 8:30 min mark - says 6 or 8 more months ago I saw a clip....rest in the quote below

From article:

Hayworth asked Tancredo: “You’re saying the party tried to control this thing and silence the [Donald] Trump folks? Would you go that far?”

“Yes, absolutely,” he responded. He cited a video clip he saw as recently as six months ago featuring Colorado Republican Party Chairman Steve House and a delegate who later attended the convention.

“The fact is he told a group of people in Pueblo, Colo., in a meeting — and this is months and months ago, and I’m paraphrasing — - "We got to do something to stop Trump,” Tancredo told Hayworth.

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