Donald J. Trump Response to Cruz and Kasich Campaigns

Donald J. Trump ^ | 4-24-2016 | Donald J. Trump

[sheikdetailfeather]

- April 24, 2016 -

Donald J. Trump ​Response to Cruz and Kasich Campaigns

It is sad that two grown politicians have to collude against one person who has only been a politician for ten months in order to try and stop that person from getting the Republican nomination.

Senator Cruz has done very poorly and after his New York performance, which was a total disaster, he is in free fall and as everyone has seen, he does not react well under pressure. Also, approximately 80% of the Republican Party is against him. Governor Kasich, who has only won 1 state out of 41, in other words, he is 1 for 41 and he is not even doing as well as other candidates who could have stubbornly stayed in the race like him but chose not to do so. Marco Rubio, as an example, has more delegates than Kasich and yet suspended his campaign one month ago. Others, likewise, have done much better than Kasich, who would get slaughtered by Hillary Clinton once the negative ads against him begin. 85% of Republican voters are against Kasich.

Collusion is often illegal in many other industries and yet these two Washington insiders have had to revert to collusion in order to stay alive. They are mathematically dead and this act only shows, as puppets of donors and special interests, how truly weak they and their campaigns are. I have brought millions of voters into the Republican primary system and have received many millions of votes more than Cruz or Kasich. Additionally, I am far ahead of both candidates with delegates and would be receiving in excess of 60% of the vote except for the fact that there were so many candidates running against me.

Because of me, everyone now sees that the Republican primary system is totally rigged. When two candidates who have no path to victory get together to stop a candidate who is expanding the party by millions of voters, (all of whom will drop out if I am not in the race) it is yet another example of everything that is wrong in Washington and our political system. This horrible act of desperation, from two campaigns who have totally failed, makes me even more determined, for the good of the Republican Party and our country, to prevail!

Next Release: Donald J. Trump to Speak on Foreign Policy at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

[Aria]

DESPERADOS!

What a pair of shameless jerks. I’d say Cruz has permanently ruined his political career...this was Kasich’s last stand already.

[catnipman]

Yep, Cruz and Kasich have now essentially stated that they are no longer running to win the nomination for themselves, but now are campaigning for no other reason but to do the bidding of the GOPe oligarchs and plutocrats to deny the peoples’ choice of Donald J. Trump.

[hsmomx3]

Just tonight Cruz was bragging how he is the only one who can beat Hillary.

[Vineyard]

Trump is whining a bit....this guy used all sorts of laws to screw over small businesses when he filed for bankruptcy - FOUR TIMES!!! Trump’s response - “I was using the laws to my benefit”. So Trump can do things like screw the little guy .....but let someone else follow the rules .....and Trump’s head explodes.

Face it...Trump has been ignoring the rules - and whines when someone else follows the rules.

BTW - Trump is a BIG LIAR. (Why does he call Cruz a liar ? What he claims Cruz did in Iowa was actually done by Rubio’s campaign.) Figure the big lies as follows:
a. Trump promised in the past to release his Income Tax returns - now he won’t. What is he hiding? He must have been lying when he promised to release the forms.
b. Trump said he would ‘self-fund’ his campaign. WHY IS HE ONLY “LOANING” his campaign the money? If it is a loan, then he is free to hold fund raisers and get money from other people, and pay himself back. If he was self-funding....then he would GIVE his campaign the money - NOT LOAN IT. How is he NOT LYING when he claims to ‘self-fund’ - but loans the money??
c. He claims to be conservative - but is clueless on real conservative values...which he can’t articulate properly...and they are subject to frequent changes! Where has he really been a conservative?

Sorry if this disturbs the “Trumpsters” ....but he is not a conservative, and he has effectively destroyed the Republican party and given a victory to the Democrats. Turn out will be way down...and I expect that the Democrats have a good chance of re-taking the Senate.

The Donald has come across as an ignorant buffoon who doesn’t know squat about foreign affairs, military affairs (re-listen to his ‘expertise’ when asked about the Triad...he was clueless!)

Sorry for the rant....but rather than attack me - first answer the questions I posed about Trump’s lies. Why are they not lies? If they are lies...then what does that say about him...and those who follow him?

[cba123]

Cruz will be CREAMED by the mainstream media.

Bigtime.

He will lose, historically, to Hillary. Be will not be able to do one darned thing, without being ripped to shreds by the entire media machine.

He will lose. Lose. Lose.

Cruz needs to get with the program, stand down, and support the winner in this race. Donald Trump.

[Trumpinator]

[MaxistheBest]

“Trump promised in the past to release his Income Tax returns - now he won’t.”

He said he would when the audit is over, and his accounting firm sent a letter to MSM backing that up. By the way, Cruz promised to release his; he only released partial forms without any details.

[MamaB]

I do not care if he or anyone else releases their income tax returns. Who reads them anyway plus it is no one’s business? I do not know one person who has ever read them or even glanced at them in the past.

[MaxistheBest]

“Trump said he would ‘self-fund’ his campaign.”

He is self-funding; he had never used the word “loan” and he has given his campaign $35 million and another $20 million that was just announced. That’s $55 million that has not come from donations.

[Trumpinator]

“Trump promised in the past to release his Income Tax returns - now he won’t.”

He said he would when the audit is over, and his accounting firm sent a letter to MSM backing that up.

There is no legal reason to release tax returns to run for president. It is just a campaign gimmick. I could care less about anyone's personal finances. I hope Trump does not release his tax returns as a big FU to traditional politics.

[sheikdetailfeather]

Pathetic – Ted Cruz and John Kasich Announce Joint “Never Voters Campaign” To Stop Donald Trump…

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/04/25/pathetic-ted-cruz-and-john-kasich-announce-joint-never-voters-campaign-to-stop-donald-trump/

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The Donald has come across as an ignorant buffoon who doesn’t know squat about foreign affairs, military affairs (re-listen to his ‘expertise’ when asked about the Triad...he was clueless!)

BFD.

Most world leaders don't give a rip about US interests. All the knowledge about so-called foreign affairs is worth a handful of dust in a world that sees YOU as the problem.

FTW.

[jennychase]

Lyin Cruz go back to Mommy.

[Conservative Gato]

Actually, this unholy alliance may well benefit Trump. Last night's FR Caucus had 171 for Trump and only 21 for sCruze. In this thread, any number of sCruze supporters indicated that this move has caused them to move to Trump. If that is a bell-weather of the country's changing allegiance from sCruze to Trump. it will affect the upcoming primaries day after tomorrow. Anyway, we will see shortly!

Yeah, so many wrong sides come together to try to take out Trump, let's hope all that is about to come to an end. Then Trump and all of us can move on to defeating Hillary Clintoon. Thanks for reminding me to vote in the next caucus too.

CGato

[MaxistheBest]

“He claims to be conservative - but is clueless on real conservative values..”

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions

On gun rights his position is the strongest of any candidate....calling for a national license across all state lines

Calls for end to sanctuary cities...Cruz voted against a bill to defund then

His trade stance is well known...Cruz has consistently voted against moves against China (must be Heidi’s influence)

[NYRepublican72]

Great news on PA/RI/CT. DE will also be a Trump rout. The only quasi-vulnerable state on Tuesday is MD. Trump will win, but Kay-sick or Lyin’ Ted may have a shot at some of the CDs near DC.

50% is the magic number for the whole Connecticut delegation (28) or it becomes proportional for the 13 statewide and WTA for the 5 CDs (at 3 delegates each).

A win in PA will get the 17 statewide bound delegates and make it more likely that a good portion of the Congressional Delegates (18x3 for 54 total) become soft delegates for Trump.

Rhode Island has the most complicated formulas as far as the delegate count goes. All three candidates will likely split the 6 CD delegates and the 3 RNC delegates for a floor of 3/3/3.

If Trump gets over 50% of the statewide vote, he’ll likely take 7 of the 10 statewide delegation for a total of 10 of the 19 state delegates. They use a round-down system in RI, where the winner gets the extra delegates statewide. The CD and RNC delegates are basically split 1/1/1 assuming Kasich and Cruz break a 10% floor and Trump does not get 66.7% of the vote.

DE is straight winner take all for the 16 delegates there. This one will easily end in the Trump camp.

Which takes us to MD, which technically is the biggest pledged delegate prize of the night (38). Trump is poised to take the 14 statewide delegates. The question is how many of the remaining 8 CDs can he nail down. They are strict winner takes all.

Handicapping NE Super Tuesday, you’re likely looking at a Trump range of somewhere between 95 and 106 of the 118 pledged delegates assuming the polling data is accurate.

Best case assumes a 10-9 split in RI and the loss of 1 CD in MD.
Worst case assumes a 9-10 split in RI and the loss of 4 CDs in MD

[Trumpinator]

How to deal with thieves:

[ripnbang]

I disagree. Trump knows exactly what he’s doing with this and it is amazing that Cruz and Kasich (and the GOPe) are falling right into the trap. It is not whining...it’s presenting a narrative in an election year where the electorate is PO’d and doesn’t want politics as usual. He will beat this dead horse and gain even more momentum from it. He will overwhelmingly win on Tuesday and regardless of the overall delegate distribution (as some are not WTA states) the narrative is that Trump is piling on the wins. California polls will look even better as will Indiana. And he has NJ after Indiana. Trump will keep hammering the narrative and Cruz and Kasich will look much more desperate and keep losing badly, ruining their credibility. Not much of a problem for Kasich, he’s at the end of his career, but much worse for Ted who is only 44 and is quickly putting himself out of contention for a local city council seat in Texas let alone re-election to Senator. The only thing in his favor is the American people are very forgiving and have short memories...I think perhaps not, in this case, though.

[Syncro]

Cruz just complained on Hannity radio show that Kasich was auditioning to be Trumps VP.

Hmmmm, Cruz was just paired with Kasich on a Fox News promotion "townhall" where they were pushing both Cruz and Kasich teaming up to stop Trump.

Catch up, Mr. Cruz: Kasich is auditioning YOU for HIS VP!

[Aria]

Business big and small use the bankruptcy laws....that’s what they’re there for.

Not sure what you’re talking about in Iowa...it was Cruz’s team who told the voters that Carson was leaving the race and to vote for Cruz. This was set up by Amanda Carpenter (Cruz’s special friend) and not refuted by the Cruz campaign until it was too late...even though they knew it was a lie before it was too late. Are you saying that Rubio’s people told the voters to vote for Cruz???

Trump is spending his own money...period. Lobbyists have tried to buy him and no dice. I see NO problem with it being called a loan. Maybe he’ll be paid back by federal funds at some later date? Does it matter? It’s Cruz who claims he’d never take lobbyist money but is blatantly lying about it.

And the old Trump isn’t a conservative meme. Is “consevative” welcoming illegals swarming across the border with teddy bears, voting for the Corker bill that turned the constitution on it’s head, voting for TPA and then changing his vote after it no longer mattered (see comment on Iowa above for more of this strategy) or voting to expand H1-B visas 500%? Is that conservative??? If so then Cruz is your man.