Posted on 05/03/2016 2:03:38 AM PDT by nikos1121
NEW YORK, NY
Trump Tower
9:00 PM EDT
You and your guest are cordially invited to a press conference with Mr. Trump who will be making post-election remarks at Trump Tower the night of the Indiana Primary.
Appetizers and refreshments will be served
Preferred attire- PJs (Black Tie Optional)
Please RSVP @ nikos1121
Newt has been sticking up for Trump for some time and did so again last night. Glad Kasich listened to Newt (if that was the case, and I suspect it was). He probably also got a call from Reince.
Good observation.
Kasich is still Governor and probably wants another term.
I think the GOPe is telling everyone it’s over...get on the train if they want to keep their DC jobs($$) and not lose them to Dems.
Thanks - I missed that. Many have been speculating that Kasich might be the VP pick b/c of Ohio and that he had a lot of congressional experience (including budgets and foreign policy). I think it will be someone else, but not sure who. I see Newt for Chief of Staff - I’d like to see someone younger for VP. I’m not tied into it has to be a woman or minority. Some have said Allen West, and I’d be fine with that, though I’ve always thought him more of head of the military (Sec of Defense).
Thank you hoosiermama and NIKK for all your hard work yesterday! Thank you Indiana! Thanks to all who worked this campaign in their home states.
Thank you nikos1121 for these wonderful rally threads!
Who knew they would be this yugeeee!
Thanks to all the Trump family friends on this fast moving train! We put the fun in dys-FUN-ctional. I can’t tell you how much I enjoy the stories, rally pictures, cartoons, laughter, tears and of course, lysie’s breakfast.
Thanks to Sen. Cruz for finally doing the right thing last night. If the rumors are true, Thanks to Gov. Kasich for dropping out today. I couldn’t watch him eat another bite.
Thanks to Donald J Trump for choosing to run. It will be a great honor to address him as President of the United States of America. The Trump family will restore dignity to the office. And make us proud!
Now, let’s all get out there and work as hard as we can so we can trounce that Pig in a Pantsuit come November.
Poor, delusional cRuzer has a few things wrong.
First, cRuz is NO Reagan. Folks are just not in to him, like they were to Reagan. Also, Reagan was NOT a DC insider, as is cRuz.
Second...she has her history wrong. Here’s how it really happened....
After losing six straight primaries to President Gerald Ford early in the year, Reagan had come roaring back, attacking Ford for his weak foreign policy and deficit spending and winning the crucial North Carolina primary with help from Sen. Jesse Helms. Reagan achieved a political resurrection and posed the most serious challenge to an incumbent Republican president since 1912 when Theodore Roosevelt had taken on William Howard Taft.
After Reagan won the Texas, Indiana, Georgia and Alabama primaries, a nonplussed GOP establishment that favored Ford struggled to understand the former California governor’s appeal. Conservative author Richard Whalen made it easy for them: Reagan was doing well because he was “unsullied by Watergate, untainted by Vietnam, and uncorrupted by a Washington system that isn’t working.”
However, after failing to carry Ohio although easily winning his home state of California, Reagan realized that the political momentum was shifting back to Ford. Something dramatic had to be done. Breaking a long-held precedent, he announced his running mate before the convention: Sen. Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania, a moderate conservative with a high rating from the AFL-CIO. Schweiker assured Reagan and his aides that he could pry loose delegates from Pennsylvania and other Northern states.
It was a bold gambit, but it failed. Schweiker persuaded only one Pennsylvania delegate to switch to Reagan. And Schweiker’s moderate pro-labor record gave party boss Clarke Reed an excuse to move the Mississippi delegation across the line to Ford. Also ineffective was a convention roll call vote to force Ford to name his vice president in advance—it was rejected by a vote of 1,180 to 1,069, an indication of things to come.
The first and only ballot was breathtakingly close: Ford, 1,187; Reagan 1,070, with 1,130 (half the number of delegates plus one) needed to nominate. Ford’s margin over Reagan was a slim 117 delegates. A shift of only 59 delegates would have given the nomination to Reagan–with its 30 delegates, Mississippi would have provided half of what was needed.
Anxious to achieve unity, Ford generously invited Reagan to join him on the platform following his acceptance speech. Reagan gave a rapt convention and tens of millions of viewers a taste of what they would have heard if he had been nominated. Without notes or a teleprompter, he speculated how Americans 100 years from now would look back at this time.
Would they say, “Thank God for those people in 1976 who headed off that loss of freedom; who kept us now a hundred years later free; who kept our world from nuclear destruction?” This was this generation’s challenge, Reagan declared. “Whether [the Americans of 2076] have the freedom that we have known up until now will depend on what we do here.”
The following day, in what was mistakenly interpreted as a farewell to national politics, Reagan thanked his campaign advisers and workers, many of whom were weeping. “We lost,” he acknowledged, “but the cause—the cause goes on.” And then he added a few revealing lines from an old English ballad he had memorized in childhood, “I’ll lay me down and bleed awhile; although I am wounded, I am not slain. I shall rise and fight again.”
And so he did, running again four years later and applying the lessons of 1976. He handily won the nomination, defeating a lineup of well-known Republicans led by George H. W. Bush.
http://dailysignal.com/2016/04/15/when-reagan-almost-won-the-1976-gop-convention/
Again....it’s just not the same, for cRuz. He’s finished, for the most part, as NO ONE trusts him, anymore. He’s damaged goods....he damaged his own self, beginning in IA. His public and epic meltdown, yesterday, finished him off.
Yes. And Kasick was in DC when the announcement was first made this morning . That’s a car ride from the Gingrich home in VA (Celeste is in the choir of the national Cathedral.). Trump has his national office in the Old Post Office.
JK flew from Indiana to DC in a private jet Whose?
I really enjoyed the “Up and Down The Monon” !
Mr. Peabody” my helper in Elizbeth has messaged me several times. She’s so excited she could be a part of Donald’s big WIN here in INDIANA!
That song, ONE OUT OF TWO AIN’T BAD!!! LOL
Sis just asked. If Ohio delegates go to Trump, will that put DJT over 1237. If not how close?
WOW!!!
Mr. Sherman !!! By George I think you’ve got something there!
A negotiation in DC...It could be made into a movie. lol
NEWT and KaSIck could again work on a committee together.
Congrats on the Indiana win and especially for the extraordinary effort you two put in to make sure it happened. Of course, it’s not hard work if you love what your’re doing, right?
The Donald is coming to my state! Never thought it would happen. Har! Maybe he knows I have a Trump Rally pack in my closet, ready to go!
Nice to hear...I’m not young by a long shot but it was really exciting to be a part of something BIG!
People involved here at the POLLS were very NICE!
Aren’t at least 58 of KaSick’s delegates unbound?
HOW SWEET! It sure does......
Interesting history lesson. Thanks!
I’ve been thinking about our convention in July. It’s going to be the best ever! Remember when Trump told Reince it needed to be updated and more show biz?
Trump’s in charge now. Hopefully he gets some of his Hollywood connections to help. Imagine a whopping good time going on inside. Everyone happy. Love in the room....meanwhile outside nasty left protesters, BLM, Soros groups clashing with police.
Who are the voters going to join?
The past few days have been my busiest. I wasn’t able to party along with all of you as much.
I’ve read that the OH delegates go to 2nd place finisher. But a ‘suspension’ of his campaign may not meet that requirement. I’m sure we’ll find out soon what’s what.
Great point!!
All you need is LOVE.
;-)
Go early Vote often LOLA. The rally is worth every bit on time and effort So moving. And from now on the target is Crooked CLINTON and the Communist The Democrat’s version of a “rocker” group
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