Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Cruz’s contested convention delegate strategy could backfire
HotAir.com ^ | 04/24/2016 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 04/24/2016 11:27:15 AM PDT by MaxistheBest

It might work, but as Fox News notes this weekend, it’s hardly a risk free strategy.

Even if Cruz is able to force a contested convention by keeping Trump from reaching the magic 1,237 number, he is counting on delegates both having the strength to vote to reject Trump in the face of significant pressure from the campaign and Trump supporters, and then moving to Cruz after they are unbound.

While the strategy seems to have its merits, the question of whether delegates will back him could be complicated by recent threats made to both GOP party officials and delegates themselves, allegedly by Trump supporters. -----------------------------

Yet it wasn’t so long ago that anyone with a career in the dreaded GOP establishment wouldn’t spit on Cruz’s head if his hair were on fire. (I mean, it’s not as if any high ranking party members were joking about murdering him on the Senate floor or taking cyanide rather than voting for him, right?)

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-48 last
To: Steamburg

Great insight. McConnell should have been using manipulative Ted all along. Who knew he was good at intrigue?


41 posted on 04/24/2016 4:43:26 PM PDT by major-pelham
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: altura; tennmountainman
If Cruz secures a victory, it will be totally ILlegitimate.

It will be viewed as having "won" not based upon merit, but fraud. It will confirm what many believe, that their vote doesn't count in the face of the Establishment's wishes. The process will be viewed as dishonest. While Cruz didn't create the system, his "victory" will be tarred and he will be viewed as dishonorable. Deservedly so.

42 posted on 04/24/2016 6:28:24 PM PDT by gogeo (Donald Trump. Because it's finally come to that.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: altura

Cruz cannot win against Hillary. Because no one likes him. He’s not gonna get crossover voters.


43 posted on 04/24/2016 7:34:26 PM PDT by Not gonna take it anymore (If Obama were twice as smart as he is, he would be a wit)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: Steamburg; MaxistheBest
That makes him Hillary without the lipstick.

He has the lipstick...it comes from the bed-partners, those tramps etc as enumerated in the National Enquirer.

44 posted on 04/24/2016 9:27:46 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: tennmountainman

Cruz will be an illegitimate nominee.


45 posted on 04/24/2016 9:31:46 PM PDT by niki
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Not gonna take it anymore

Cruz cannot win against Hillary. Because no one likes him. He’s not gonna get crossover voters.


Cruz is not planning on running against Hillary. He wants it be the Constitution defender vs. Hillary. How could you vote against the Constitution? /sarc


46 posted on 04/24/2016 9:35:11 PM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: altura

I really hate to see the delegate process (which favored Trump mightily is Missouri and a couple of other states) misrepresented so deeply.

It reminds me of the sudden rush to “But he won the popular vote!” in 2000, when that was never the standard for winning the presidency. If we’re going to argue style, substance, positions, and electability, let’s at least do it with some intellectual honesty.


47 posted on 04/30/2016 8:11:06 PM PDT by bootless (Is life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: altura
If Cruz secures a victory, it will be totally legitimate.

LOL!

You STILL suck.

48 posted on 05/04/2016 1:39:15 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Trump is great. Just great. He's going to do great things and America will be great and spectacular.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-48 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson