Posted on 05/02/2016 10:54:58 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
“I got cheated!”
After Donald Trump received nearly twice the votes of Ted Cruz at Saturday’s Arizona Republican convention, the Texas senator walked away with a significant majority of the delegates from that state, KTAR reported.
Cruz took nearly all the state’s 28 at-large delegates and basically split the 27 selected by congressional district.
Former Gov. Jan Brewer, a Trump supporter, was livid as the results were announced, indicating that she’d lost her first election in 35 years.
Read more: http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/05/01/gov-jan-brewer-furious-after-what-cruz-is-able-to-pull-off-in-arizona-a-state-he-lost-to-trump-335367#ixzz47WOcx8ME
(Excerpt) Read more at bizpacreview.com ...
Cruz is back on his sounds like a Democrat “Trump is violent” rants. How pathetic.
Make America Statist again.
Only if cRuz and the globalists win.
No thanks.
Again....you sound angry. Find a safe place to accept the fact that We the People don’t like Lyin Ted’s stealing, er, “ground game”.
It usually emerges, along with the Godzilla pics, when somebody in the FR thread has lost the argument.
The only people that have lost are loser Cruzers. Historic landslides. Every county in FL but one. Every county across five states a week ago. Loser Cruz has lost at a historic level. Congratulations, you know how to pick losers.
Kasich is one low life sob. Not even a chance for him to win, and he is playing games with his delegates.
On KFYI this AM, it was reported that you hit/voted for a slate of delegates on Sat at AZ convention, example Trump A,B,C; Cruz D,E,F, Kaisch D,E,G. Some of us believe that this is underhanded, not illegal. We are aware politics is slimy but many woke up this year due to Trump and the devastation that Obama caused the country and want the sliminess to stop.
There is no real Cruz/Kasich alliance. Kasich’s campaign advisor is a business partner with Manafort. .
More Collusion by Cruz and Kasich. I cannot believe Lyin Ted has any supporters left.
There is no real Cruz/Kasich alliance. Kasich’s campaign advisor is a business partner with Manafort. .
And that means???
Arizona Republican— all 58 delegates to Trump, note the final paragraph. .. [Arizona Revised Statutes 16-243]
Primary: Tuesday 22 March 2016
Trump, Donald John, Sr._____286,743____ 45.95%____58 delegates
Cruz, Rafael Edward “Ted_____ 172,294____ 27.61%
Rubio, Marco A.____ 72,304____ 11.59%
Kasich, John Richard____ 65,965____ 10.57%
Carson, Benjamin Solomon “Ben”, Sr.____14,940____ 2.39%
Total_____624,039____ 100.00%_______ 58 100.00%
Delegate Selection: Winner-Take-All,
Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary
58 total delegates - 10 base at-large / 27 re: 9 congressional districts / 3 party / 18 bonus
Source: 2016 Election Information from azsos.gov.
Source: The Official Guide to the 2016 Republican Nominating Process.
Results from 2016 Election Information from the Arizona Secretary of State. AP Statewide. Politico.
Tuesday 22 March 2016: All of 58 of Arizona’s delegates to the Republican National Convention are pledged to the presidential contender receiving the greatest number of votes in today’s Arizona Presidential Primary. Saturday 26 March - Saturday 9 April 2016: The Arizona Legislative District and County Conventions elect delegates to the State Convention and Congressional District caucuses.
Saturday 30 April 2016: The Arizona State Convention convenes. Delegates are elected according to the——> results of the primary.
27 district delegates to the Republican National Convention are chosen with 3 delegates selected in each of the 9 congressional districts.
The State Convention chooses 28 at-large delegates from Arizona to the Republican National Convention.
In addition, 3 party leaders, the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the Arizona’s Republican Party, will attend the convention as bound delegates by virtue of their position.
-——>>>>>... each delegate to the national convention shall vote for the party’s presidential nominee candidate who received the greatest number of votes in the presidential preference election ..., until the candidate releases the delegate from the delegate’s obligation, until a candidate withdraws from the race or until one convention nominating ballot has been taken. After a candidate is nominated, withdraws from the race, delegates are released or one ballot is taken, each delegate is free to vote as the delegate chooses .... [Arizona Revised Statutes 16-243] <<-———
After the AZ Primary, the 58 won are Trump delegates guaranteed through #1.
This is great....do you happen to have a link to this?
Thanks!!
Thank you, but the point is Cruz loyalists sitting in many of those seats.
Arizona -
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/AZ-R
Colorado-
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/CO-R
(Note how the CO page looks like a communist Cuba election report - one candidate, no vote totals, unopposed!) Fidel = Filito
Link to entire election process (non-partisan) site and every state:
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/R
They will, on the first vote. If that doesn’t put Trump over the top they’re free to vote however the want. That’s what the delegate system is all about, if the voters can’t manage to designate a clear winner through the primary and caucus votes, as demonstrated on the first ballot, then you MUST have delegates able to change their votes on subsequent ballots. Otherwise you can’t get a winner, and that mean no nominee, which makes things rather boring come November.
There will never be a second ballot, no need to worry.
But, yea. Lyin Cheatin Ted never stops.
All this trouble and wasted effort over a guy who is not even eligible.
Cruz in using the rules of the system...and every candidate knew those rules...to try and go for the only thing he has any hope for...and that is a 2nd or 3rd ballot.
It is not going to do him any good.
Those delegates are required by law to vote for the winner on the 1st ballot and my own math says that Trump is going to have somewhere between 1,240 and 1,330 delegates for the 1st ballot.
I have been a Cruz supporter...but have also been encouraging him to stop this in fighting ever since the NY Primary.
The writing is on the wall. Continued fighting only hurts the chances in November. I am praying the man will see this.
My Open Letter to Ted Cruz
http://www.jeffhead.com/Cruz-ltr.htm
While this is true, don't you think the delegation would be more pumped for who Arizona voted for if Jan Brewer were in the delegation?
Also, this delegation tampering is to also gain control of the rules of the convention. They are attempting to be in position to deny Trump regardless of 1237 or more pre-convention delegates. I don't think this is actually going to happen, but the fact that they have a plan and are executing accordingly is worrisome.
What kind of enthusiasm are we going to see at the convention for DJT after he wins the first ballot nomination? Everyone being in a pissed off mood? The whole process is just very disingenuous. The delegations are not going to match up very well with the voters apparently. That is a shame.
Yes.
Exactly!
I agree.
It’s a sham and a shame.
If they were not bound to the 1st ballot , GOPe or Cruz would steal/bribe/twist them away. Some states offer more protections than others. State parties manipulate and change the rules up through September based on projections to match the desired results. Other states (Maine) are stealing it directly at the ballot box.
The deceit and fraud will come back to bite them in the ass.
Go to the Greenpapers sites I posted above, research state individual party rules.
Kalifornia actually has a really equitable set-up, in spite of their past reputation.
Jan was on the slate of candidates to be elected delagates to the National convention.
Her name was dropped from ballot some way. There will be a challenge I think.
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