Posted on 04/24/2016 4:37:52 PM PDT by John W
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Sunday he expects to secure the Republican nomination on the first ballot.
"I'm only interested in the first ballot," he said during a rally in Hagerstown, Md.
"I'm not interested in second, third, fourth, nineteenth because I'm really interested in winning it early and that's it."
Trump said he's not "playing games," adding he's going to win in states that other Republicans are not even going to campaign in.
But during the rally, Trump slammed the primary system, calling it unfair. He criticized rival Ted Cruz for "bribing" delegates.
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no it’s not
Is that a positive for all politicians or just for Trump?
The special dispensations doled out for him are really impressive. I’ve never seen a Republican get so many Mulligans from his acolytes.
Strong stuff, I have to admit, Im just not capable of that kind of loyalty to a politician. I get all hung up on ideology and my own values.
Same here.
1st or none.
The GOP can either nominate the man with the most national votes
and delegates on the first ballot or FK them.
I appreciate you calling Trump a winner.
Trump has proven that he can win the nomination if he tries. Does this mean he’s going to try or that he’s leaving if it doesn’t go his way?
I hope what he means is that he will make the deals necessary to win on the first ballot (the only ballot under this system where Trump has a chance). If he means he’s going to take his voters and go home if he doesn’t win on his schedule, then we might as well all become serious preppers. Things will get unimaginably ugly quickly, and it’s not just the republican party that will collapse.
That is exactly what the second vote will be.
What Trump is doing makes sense. He's said all along that he doesn't want to be sucked in by the system. Making deals to get delegate support on later ballots would be a step down that slippery slope. He'll give it 100% bringing his campaign to people in all corners of the US, but not get sucked into the backroom deals.
I got the feeling he definitely wants to win on the first ballot. He kind of half-implied that a lot of his supporters might get to Cleveland for that first ballot.
Classic Trump. Choose your battles. Only make good deals. If there's a nasty, contested convention, it'll make it tougher to win in November because the Republican Party will be in shambles. What's the point of getting a later-ballot nomination?
Makes sense.
“Is that a positive for all politicians or just for Trump?”
Obviously, what I had in mind, and most people do, including Trump, was what happened in Colorado, for example. Colorado is not alone.
I think the people in Colorado are already talking about changing the rules.
I am sure the voters in Colorado would be crushed to hear of your displeasure, that next time they may get the chance to a actually vote.
The people of CO are doing more than talking. There’s already a bipartisan bill to require a primary in 2020.
https://www.cpr.org/news/story/bipartisan-bill-seeks-bring-back-primaries
Yeah, your taking Cruz who gets all of his mulligans from the golf pros of the course. These mulligans are never made public because you have to pay for them with the right votes.
I think you missed the conditional.
Here’s hoping he loses on the first ballot.
In the second picture to the right, it looks like one man is paying
another man off in cash in the shadows.
Sure sounds like Ryan’s “I wont become Speaker unless no one can challenge me”.
How is it different?
“What Trump is doing makes sense. He’s said all along that he doesn’t want to be sucked in by the system. Making deals to get delegate support on later ballots would be a step down that slippery slope. He’ll give it 100% bringing his campaign to people in all corners of the US, but not get sucked into the backroom deals.”
So you are saying we need a king who will not negotiate, rather than a politician who will.
This country is not constructed that way. We do not have a king who decides what to do.
Yep, that’s ground game.
Regardless of what Trump’s team is planning this is good rhetoric.
From Cruz’s point of view, Ted would have been better off stealing the delegates but not boasting about it. He messed up and gave trump a popular primary vote gain on the issue.
It’s the name of his book: “If It’s Not Close, They Can’t Cheat.”
As a former Cruz supporter Im damn glad Ive switched my support to Trump.
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