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Trump passes Romney’s popular vote total, likely to break GOP record
Politico ^ | 4/27/2016 | Kyle Cheney

Posted on 04/27/2016 6:06:39 AM PDT by GilGil

With his five blowout wins Tuesday night, Donald Trump has passed Mitt Romney’s popular vote total from four years ago and is on a trajectory that could land him more Republican votes than any presidential candidate in modern history – by a lot.

Trump surged to 9.9 million votes, according to totals that include Tuesday’s preliminary results across the northeast and could rise further as the final votes are counted. That’s already more than 100,000 more than Romney earned in the entire 2012 primary season and tens of thousands more than John McCain earned in 2008.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 1237; 2016election; backstabberromney; cruz; election2016; jealousromney; kasick; newyork; presidentdonaldtrump; rinoromney; romneycare; trump
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With this in mind, I can see Cruz now soliciting people's votes suggesting that even though he is losing somehow on a hope and a prayer in the 2nd,3rd, or 4th ballot at the convention he may or may not win. Sounds like a very exciting message. Trump is going to campaign in Indiana with Bob Knight. That is because people love winners not losers. To ask a voter to vote for you because you are losing and you may lose some more at the convention is not going to work!
1 posted on 04/27/2016 6:06:40 AM PDT by GilGil
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To: GilGil

But, Trump cant beat Hillary.....only Canadian Cruz can......

Trump is going to absolutely crush Hillary come election time. Complete and utter blowout.


2 posted on 04/27/2016 6:12:15 AM PDT by walkingdead (It's easy, you just don't lead 'em as much....)
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To: GilGil
That’s already more than 100,000 more than Romney earned in the entire 2012 primary season

Poor, poor Mittens. How this must gall him.

;)

3 posted on 04/27/2016 6:16:11 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("The bathroom deal is a big fat nothing burger." -- Jim Robinson, 04/22/16)
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To: GilGil

The Cheap Labor Express will not give up.
Their stooges, Kasich and Cruz, will continue their quest to block the citizens from stopping the Cheap Labor Express


4 posted on 04/27/2016 6:24:57 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: GilGil

“...To ask a voter to vote for you because you are losing and you may lose some more at the convention is not going to work...”

Absolutely correct. The people of Indiana are smart Americans and this will be the reasoning of the majority and that majority will vote Trump. Let’s hope Rush realizes this today and isn’t trying to act as though Cruz is still viable and can somehow win in Indiana.

Cruz will lose big in Indiana. It’s over.


5 posted on 04/27/2016 6:28:32 AM PDT by stonehouse01
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To: GilGil
That presents an uncomfortable reality for anti-Trump forces: they’re attempting to thwart the candidate who is likely to win more Republican primary votes than any GOP contender in at least the last 36 years, and maybe ever.

Yet all we hear from Cruz supporters is that he only has a plurality not a majority, so that means more are against him. Of course the fact that even more are against Cruz means zilch to them. Quite laughable in many ways.

6 posted on 04/27/2016 6:33:37 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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“Trump passes Romney’s popular vote total, likely to break GOP record”........

So we are told by the GOPe that THEY pick the candidate, the people don’t. Who’s right, we or they?


7 posted on 04/27/2016 6:37:32 AM PDT by DaveA37
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So we are told by the GOPe that THEY pick the candidate, the people don’t. Who’s right, we or they?

That remains to be seen. I will say this, if they do it will be their doom.

8 posted on 04/27/2016 6:39:37 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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That's what Mark Levin has been raving about nightly on his radio show. I wonder what he'll say tonight?

-PJ

9 posted on 04/27/2016 6:43:18 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: GilGil

What I’ve been saying all along. The number of voters who support what has come to be known as “Conservative Republicanism” over the past two decades is shrinking, and is now too small to win national elections.

Our choice is between Trump’s right-leaning Populism and Socialism. Sorry, Bill Kristol & Co., it just is.


10 posted on 04/27/2016 6:45:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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[That’s what Mark Levin has been raving about nightly on his radio show. I wonder what he’ll say tonight?]

I can’t WAIT to listen to Levin’s show the day after trump is crowned the nominee. I expect that there will be so much “whine” that I will end up getting pulled over for DWI...


11 posted on 04/27/2016 6:46:08 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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Let’s hope Rush realizes this today and isn’t trying to act as though Cruz is still viable and can somehow win in Indiana.

Hugh Hewitt was twisting himself into hilarious pretzel knots trying to do so this morning.


12 posted on 04/27/2016 6:46:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Poor, poor Mittens. How this must gall him.
He wimped out in 2012 and has no one to blame but himself.
13 posted on 04/27/2016 6:50:59 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Exactly Robert! People don’t ask the Cruzlims the corect questions in response to the plurality claim. Doesn’t that argument indicate that 80% of the people are against Cruz??

In addition, I have asked Lying Ted’s Supporters the following questions on at least a dozen different occasions now and not a single one has replied yet. His whole political reality is based upon cooked polls about a hypothetical matchup.

Would love to hear Rush or Levin try to answer:

Do you think that Cruz can reach HALF the delegates needed to get to the nomination?
Or more appropriately, half of the delegates that Trump gets?

If he gets so lucky.. Where will he get an increase of at least 100% of delegates in Cleveland?


14 posted on 04/27/2016 6:51:12 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (#NeverHillary now that we've gotten rid of Lying LOSER Ted Cruz.)
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To: stonehouse01
Cruz will lose big in Indiana. It’s over.

Cruz is mathematically done.

That means only the uninformed, the true believers and the anti trumps will vote for Cruz.

Trump is coming off of YUUUGE victories in NY, RI, DE,CT, PA, MD. These victories were by large margins.
He has BIG momentum now. That'll energize his base. Fence riders will now go to Trump.

The reason Indiana is seen as in play for Cruz, is because of lack of polls.

The anti Trumps figure that since there are few polls, that automatically means Cruz is leading.

The last 2 primaries have given Indiana's people something to think about.

15 posted on 04/27/2016 6:57:33 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: mountn man

Strong horse theory. Do you really want to waste your vote on a loser to placate some whiny elites and talk show hosts?


16 posted on 04/27/2016 6:59:16 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: GilGil

It may very well be that Trump will have long coat tails.


17 posted on 04/27/2016 6:59:23 AM PDT by TheDon (BO must be replaced immediately for the good of the nation and the world!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

People want to associate with a winner.


18 posted on 04/27/2016 7:03:13 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: walkingdead

I won’t prognosticate because I’m frequently wrong, but I tend to agree. The significant decline in the number of Democrats participating in the primary process tells me that rank-and-file Democrats ain’t all that excited about Comrade Bernie or Hitlery. The concurrent increase in the number of Republicans who are participating in the primaries, coupled with the number of Democrats changing parties to vote for Trump (even in Massachusetts?) tells me that there is excitement about Trump’s campaign.


19 posted on 04/27/2016 7:03:53 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“...High Hewitt ... pretzels...”

Shoot - I was hoping the dirty GOPe establishment influence was done for these turncoat radio hosts.

Wishful thinking.

Even they won’t be able to turn the around the Titanic Cruz heading for the iceberg anyway but it would have been nice for all of our blood pressures not to have to deal with it today.

I quit listening, but force a snippet of a listen each day for a delusion-rating-for-the-day determination check. Over the past week and longer, on the scale of 1 - 10 it’s been a consistent completely delusional rating of 10 for all of them except Hannity, Ingraham and Savage.

Apparently there are others that I don’t know about in some regional markets that are still sane.


20 posted on 04/27/2016 7:09:01 AM PDT by stonehouse01
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