Posted on 04/20/2016 5:49:01 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
A long fought battle between GOP front-runner Donald Trump and the RNC establishment might be coming to a close after the staggering victory Trump had in New York.
reuters.com reports: The New York real estate mogul's win Tuesday in his home state over rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich was an important milestone for RNC members, who said it could put him on a pathway to acquire the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination outright without a contested convention.
"There are a fair number of RNC members who were discounting his chances of success when we met in January and now see that he’s building a substantial lead and may in fact get to 1,237 before we get to the convention," said Steve Duprey, an RNC member from New Hampshire.
"The New York results were such an overwhelming win," Duprey said. "It's impressive. That's what I've heard people talking about."
RNC members said Trump could help improve the climate by taking steps to end the bad blood that has developed between him and the committee's leadership, including RNC Chairman Reince Priebus.
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I was on the Trump train but would have been glad to support Cruz....until then. At that point he chose political expediency over attacking Democrats for their actions and blamed it on Trump. Despicable.
The RNC scum see the writing on the wall and are interested only in saving their worthless hides. Sure, let them “help”, give them some rope, then hang the bastards after their usefulness is over with. Use them like they’ve used the millions of good, honest, trusting voters who were suckered by their lying tongues.
Then why do most of sites I post from (and many other posters) not require it?
No, the RNC are coming to him, as opposed to Cruz going to them. And they are still not good guys, just a little realistic.
I don’t know what this guy at Restate is smoking, but even his own followers aren’t it. He totally blew it on NY; his polling is way off in PA and he doesn’t say that Trump already has 12-14 unbound delegates on top of the 17 statewide he will get; he gives Connecticut to Cruz:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-donald-trump-takes-commanding-lead-in-connecticut/
To make his numbers work he even starts out with Cruz at 696 instead of the 559 he really has and has Trump at 815 instead of 845 (that’s before the 90 from NY)
Joe Heck is for the Cheap labor express and amnesty.
I live in Vegas, and he sides with GOPe, voted for Ryan, didn’t want to use the purse to end Obamacare. He is a doctor and his hospital is almost bankrupt from illegals being treated gratis.
Joe doesn’t mind that NV. is a sanctuary state and Vegas is a sancturary city, educating 100,000 illegas at a cost of 1.2 billion dollars per year. Go to a NV. hotel or construction site and few Americans are at work because low wage and no benefits illegals have taken their jobs.
Excerpting all articles that are not written on FR is the lawful way to go about it.
Trump signed “the pledge” and has given no indication of reneging. The only hints of reneging have come from the GOP-e. So FURNC!
I agree, I want to hear Trump say “Reindeer Penis your fired”
Me Gyn Kelly never should have happened, John Harwood, Dem Chris Wallace should not have moderated debates.
Reindeer Penis has a math problem because to be in the Debates should have had a 10 percent polling minimum.
Now candidates that can’t even be nominated hold 400 delegate votes and another 140 are unattached
The RNC Chair is like the Butcher with his thumb on the scale of Justice.
Who would have thunk it? Establishment parasites wanting to make a deal to keep their skins? Do they remember the one fault to which Donald J. Trump has admitted is “holding a grudge too long”?
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Trump has said many times that he knows politicians all talk no action. When they see Trump as the clear winner they will all fall into line like good little soldiers.
Oh God NO!!! The guy is one mass delusion. Once a year he may say one thing that resonates out of thousands of other things that were pure eye rolling. I can't wait for him to go away. He has turned himself into a joke.
I was an adamant Cruz supporter until he blamed Trump for Bernie protesters harassing people at Trump rallies. Inexcusable.
That was when I picked Trump over Cruz too! There were other facts pushing me that way at the time but that was the “aha” moment.
Is Neil Bush still stealing, sorry when you own the bank, it’s not stealing - raising money for Cruz? Then yes he’s still a sell out.
The issue was the gop e support of Cruz not his status as front runner or not You can’t have it both ways
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“I was an adamant Cruz supporter until he blamed Trump for Bernie protesters harassing people at Trump rallies. Inexcusable.”
Yep, that’s what did it for me. Inexcusable. Now he’s down there in Boehner/Ryan/Romney territory in my eyes. I don’t want to see or hear from him ever again.
Silly guac bowl merchant...GOPe got that turf
Yesterday it was they supported Cruz because he had joined the establishment The double speak is strong on this thread
Exactly., And just before that this "principled Conservative" went into the gutter and played the race card, the scummiest, lowdown, most classless tactic in the book.
For anyone who is intellectually honest, Cruz has demonstrated his inferior character on several occasions.
Trump may be crass, blunt, and politically incorrect, but the moral lapses Cruz has had make Trump's flaws pale in comparison.
Cruz epitomizes the "win at any cost" Machiavellian mentality, and, in joining with the GOPe and availing himself of their "greased skids" delegate theft, has shown his total lack of principle.
I hope for God's sake that Trump wins the nomination outright, so that someone like Cruz is not foisted on the ticket.
Anyone with a brain to think knows that Ted Cruz won't be the GOP(e) nominee under any circumstances short of Donald Trump's untimely death.
If Cruz persists in risking the party with his suicidal insistence of forcing a contested convention, then he doesn't deserve a place anywhere in a Trump administration.
Ted Cruz is already widely despised by his colleagues in the Senate. Even Jeff Sessions jumped ship and joined the Donald Trump campaign. That was a very telling development, for anyone capable of objectivity.
Ted Cruz seems bent on both career suicide and the potential splintering of the GOP.
I have no more use for him. There are plenty of Constitutional conservatives in this country who can help make America great again without having someone who is so egotistical and narcissistic, that they make Donald Trump look meek in comparison.
Ted Cruz might as well have "selfish clown" tatooed on his forehead at this point.
Benedict Cruz is a traitor to his party.
The Revolution is ON!
Vote Trump
Never from me. I've always known the GOPe was only using Cruz as a vote splitter, and many others here have also known that.
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