Posted on 04/19/2016 11:12:11 PM PDT by goldstategop
How bad was Cruz’s night? He’s losing to Ben Carson in some places — a guy who hasn’t been in the race in weeks.
Cruz can still win the nomination on the first convention ballot, mind you, but he needs to win about 88.5 percent of the outstanding delegates, bound or unbound, per Daniel Nichanian’s excellent calculations. That's not likely to happen either.
Trump isn’t the only big winner tonight! Congratulations to John Kasich, who will almost certainly end up with his first delegate in more than a month. Can Kasich pull off a come-from-behind victory? No. The end.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
We can put the “Donald could win N.Y. vs Hillary myth to bed.
Turn out the lights. Turn on the radio to Coast to Coast and fall asleep listening to Bigfoot stories.
......next time we'll pick a real conservative.....honest.
heh.
Jedi
The ~50 unbound delegates in PA will be critical. Trump is already setting the table to pressure them to go with the primary vote winner. There will lots of sunlight on these folks to do the right thing.......
Yep. Only registered Democrats and liberals were allowed to vote in NY.
Actually comes to almost 900,000 GOP votes when we include his defeated rivals vote in the tally.
If Trump can unify the party, NY is in play in November.
In contrast, McCain and Romney and their rivals got only a third as many combined and they were creamed in November.
For someone new to politics, the scale of Trump’s win was epic. Nearly every county in the state went for him by blowout margins.
And people keep telling us his unfavorables are so high he will lose to Hillary in November.
But how does a hated guy pull off such a win? Trump’s state was called for him within seconds of the polls closing last night.
If he doesn’t get the full 1272, it doesn’t matter.
It may not matter if he does.
“Ted Cruz has no path to 1,237. His only hope is to create a highly divisive and chaotic open convention battle that almost guarantes a Clinton victory. Ted Cruz needs to drop out. This is ridiculous”
Everyone who has ever backed a primary candidate who has not won the nomination has to, at one point, take a step back from their disappointment, and even their anger, and ask themselves a question: would their state or country be better off if the candidate from the other party won the election, or would it be better off if somebody who shared 50% or 70% of the positions of their favored candidate won, instead? In this case, Cruz supporters need to ask themselves whether this country would be better off with Hillary, or with someone who supports a very strong national defense, tax cuts, massive reductions in regulations and the federal bureaucracy, taking the leash off the oil companies, building the pipeline from Canada, getting control of our borders, having a foreign policy that is actually pro-American, not appointing judges who are likely to continue destroying our Constitution, and trying to reduce the welfare mentality and the welfare state as much as possible? To my mind, the answer is very simple and obvious. Were the shoe on the other foot, I would have no trouble supporting Ted Cruz in November.
I understand if someone does not like Donald Trump or his tactics. I understand if someone takes issue with some or even quite a number of his positions. I also understand if someone says that they don’t know what he will do over the next four or eight years because he has apparently changed his mind so many times. However, with all of that said, there is no doubt whatsoever what a second President Clinton will do. At best, she will continue the same policies as President Obama, and cement into place all of his policies that are still reversible at this point. Worse, however, is the fact that the entire Federal judiciary will be lost. Our Constitution will cease to have any meaning other than what a strong liberal majority of justices believes that it should mean at any given point in time. Worse yet, she is compromised. We all know that various foreign intelligence services hacked into her computer. We also know that the Clinton Foundation was and is nothing but a giant pay to play mechanism, and that many foreign powers will be able to blackmail her into changing policy or risk being exposed for past crimes. I would literally take any candidate who was in the Republican field this year over Clinton or any other Democrat. Cruz supporters need to understand that sometimes in life there are disappointments, and that this is going to be one of them. The Republican establishment will never allow Ted Cruz to be president. Once they have finished using him to stop Trump, they will turn on him and apply all of the same tactics and forces against Cruz in order to get one of their own nominated. Better for Cruz and the country if he throws in the towel now or next week and works out some kind of a deal that at least makes certain that many of the policies that he is advocating for will be implemented. Additionally, and just as important, Trump supporters need to be magnanimous in victory, and there is no time like the present. This incessant bad mouthing of other people here on Free Republic just because they support a different means of winning this election against the anti-American Democrats needs to stop. Victors consolidate their victory by offering their hand to a defeated foe, not by spitting in their face. It is time for that process to start.
defeaTED!!!
I don’t have the video link, but here’s the print story:
‘”If you want to beat him, you have to beat him at the ballot box,” Cruz said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”’
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-cruz-beat-donald-trump-ballot-box-not-gop-convention/
+1 x 1,000!
Yeah, and look at how that turned out.
Cruz is bought and paid for. The puppet masters are scheming. Business as usual in DC, but that's ok with you isn't it?
Asked? That depends on how loyal the Cruz delegates are. Asking is not binding, and most delegates would not take it as such. It's not even terribly effective unless Trump simultaneously announces that his VP will be Cruz.
At the very least, staying in until all delegates are selected helps because that gives Kasich (a pure establishment candidate, or a bit left of the establishment) fewer delegates. At the very least, staying in until the Convention rules are approved helps because that gives Cruz delegates a personal stake in seeing that the rules protect Cruz, and the rules that would protect Cruz are almost exactly the same as the rules that protect Trump. Once the convention rules are chosen, my view on Cruz staying in may change, depending on those rules. At least for now thogh, both Trump and Cruz have much better odds with Cruz in the race.
And over half a million Americans died.
You misspelled bullet.
Lincoln won on the third ballot.
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Just before the convention, Lincoln’s men printed hundreds of counterfeit tickets and distributed them to Lincoln supporters with instructions to show up early—in order to displace Seward’s supporters...
While it would be nice, winning NY is not necessary to be President.
However, I still think Trump would take California against Hillary. I spent most of my life there. They LOVE CELEBRITY over their “hand outs”...
California is a much BIGGER PRIZE than NY.
PRESIDENT TRUMP 2017
The only person I ever heard say that was Glenn Beck.
You got the Cruz sucks part right but his whole name is Lying Ted Cruz.
There were no primaries in Lincoln’s day!
All they had was the convention!
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Wow! I did not know this.
So comparing Lincoln to Cruz is beyond Apples and Oranges.
It is more like Apples and Tuna Fish.
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