Posted on 04/28/2016 11:36:25 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
As Sen. Ted Cruz was addressing the Indiana Republican Party’s spring dinner last Thursday night, his father was on a secret mission to Puerto Rico.
Rafael Cruz, a pastor who is one of his son’s most popular surrogates, was meeting privately at a home in Dorado with some of the island’s 23 Republican convention delegates — all of whom are still bound to a candidate who got out of the race more than a month ago.
That’s Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). His presidential campaign may be over, but his potential to keep the GOP nomination from going to Donald Trump lives on.
That’s because Rubio — berated on the campaign trail by Trump as “Little Marco” — still has scores of convention delegates who are required to vote for him on the first ballot, and who could go anywhere on the second and beyond.
Rubio suspended his bid more than a month ago, on the night that he lost his home state of Florida to Trump. Rubio surveys newspapers featuring his photo aboard his campaign bus following a rally in the Villages, Fla., on March 13. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters)
But — in part at the request of Cruz’s campaign — he has done what he can to hang onto the 171 delegates that he won in 21 states and territories. That is more than Ohio Gov. John Kasich has, even now.
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assuring that a President Cruz would guarantee the Puerto Rico financial bailout
Wouldn’t it be illegal if Cruz’s father made that promise to them?
Trump should do this!
He doesn’t need to. He’ll win the first ballot without them.
PR should possess zero delegates.
They are a dependency of the US and they do not pay their own way. It is a net loss for us.
They are not Americans.
If not for our tax dollars they’d be living in stick huts.
They homes they live in are overwhelmingly paid for by the welfare state.
Was in a long line at Walmart yesterday and got to read in National Enquirer about Ted Cruz’s father having possible ties to Lee Harvey Oswald. Some of the pix in the Warren report show Oswald passing out protect Cuba bills and there are others with him doing the same. Two separate picture analysis people can make a case for one of the previously unidentified people as being the image of Rafael Cruz.
I know i know i know....consider the source. I’m not sure I’m sold - but it certainly makes me take a minute to go “cmmmmmmmmmmmmm.”
I don’t like auto correct. The above should read:
“hmmmmmmmmmmm.”
(Or maybe it’s the cold medicine kicking in...)
Excellent. So all Ted’s work will never amount to anything. I’ll rest easy.
Off topic Texan,
but what’s T-Boone Pickens up to this election cycle?
I am sure that the fact that they hold US Citizenship from birth is of no consequence. Are you saying that people born in our territories are not US citizens? If so, then there is many varied info that you are wrong, just ask Goldwater, who was born in AZ when it was a territory. Was he not a US citizen?
Dude: it is an entirely different culture, and the people do not pay their own way. They never have.
They are a burden on the American taxpayer. They always have been.
Pickens tried to get control of a water district in central TX because water districts can have their own armed police force.
He was denied.
Yesterday, T-Boone Pickens said Trump would be the nominee, and Trump would be the president.
Good, good. thanks
I have concluded that Pickens is a bad, bad man not worthy of respect, or even life.
I know little about him. Is he like a Ted Turner of sorts?
His ex-wife, Madeline is a very kind and generous woman.
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