These delegates are nails in the coffin for cruz/Kasich who aren’t even fighting for them anymore.
Wonder if Cruz will ever concede defeat?
My apologies. This is a dup. They didn’t properly copy the title to the article on the other post.
Ted Cruz is surging in the polls! smh.
Truth worth repeating.
Much ado was made of the Cruz victory in Wisconsin. Cruz's margin was +13 and for two weeks, you'd think that Trump was knocked out of the race. The "Trump defeated - cannot get the nomination" meme was pounded into us for two full weeks.
Since then, it was Trump +35 in NY (+46 over Cruz) and he's up +38 in RI, +37 in DE, +35 in CT, +26 in PA and +20 in MD. Most of those states have Kasich in second place. No telling what the margin over Cruz will be.
This poll is great to hear but I’m uncomfortable putting much weight in it because there are no internals listed or linked to at the site. It is a paid pollster who uses automated calling. The rest of the questions they polled suggest a very Liberal poll composition.
Do the results on these two polled issues make sense?
Over 60% of voters in each of these states are opposed to the privatization of health care services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Another issue we find bipartisan agreement on is the desire for candidates who will work to lessen the United States’ dependence on fossil fuels by embracing measures like solar, wind, and renewable fuels. Over 60% of primary voters in each of these states are more likely to vote for someone who makes that a priority. That includes more than 70% of Democrats and more than 50% of Republicans in each state.
The Big Mo is rolling down the Trump Train way, and these yuggee wins will not go unnoticed by the RNC, along with the massive number of new R voters and crossovers.
Trump will show the RNC there is much more for them to gain by working with him than not. If they try pulling some crap to try to steal the nomination from him, what will they gain? We know they will lose a LOT, including most likely control of Congress...would YOU vote for GOPe Republicans if they use procedural trickery to give the nomination to Kasich, Jeb, or Ryan?
Cruz has no respect for the intelligence even of those who are his followers. He started out popular here on Free Republic and now literally 9 out of 10 people have switched to Trump. Most of us will freely admit Trump was not our first choice, but Ted has lied and used underhanded tactics so much that those of us with an actual moral compass cannot be associated with him any more. There is just too much that has to be overlooked.
It has taken longer for the general public to catch on, but they are starting to get it. In most polls and surveys approximately 70% of Republicans questioned believe that the person who has the most pledged delegates coming into the convention should get the nomination. Now that both Cruz and Kasich have no mathematical way to get a majority of delegates before the convention most people are starting to realize that there is a contradiction. A vote for Cruz or Kasich is a vote for someone who wants to disenfranchise the voters.
Once that sinks in most people can’t go back and they either are going to vote for the presumptive nominee or they are not going to bother to even show up or send in a ballot. At this point Cruz and Kasich do more damage to themselves with their equivocating than Trump does when he says something bad about them. This is true of Cruz more than Kasich. Kasich just sounds like he is stupid.
Cruz now reminds me of the whiny kid that was stuck on the Ferris wheel with the other lookout at the end of the comedy movie 1941. For those of you who haven’t seen the movie think of Fran Drescher’s voice coming out of a skinny teenager. After a while it doesn’t matter any more what he is saying you just want to strangle him. This is true even though he has obviously been given coaching on how to sound less annoying. At this point I just can’t take hearing him anymore even when I want to hear what he is trying to say. And I think he has reached this same point with a lot of other people. It is one of the main reasons I believe that Ted’s ability to do well in any of the remaining primaries is severely hampered at this point.