Posted on 05/11/2016 3:29:02 PM PDT by maggief
Ted Cruz isn’t giving up.
While Donald Trump dispatches three advisers to Texas’s convention in Dallas this week and makes a pitch for party unity, his team will be running up against a Cruz operation that is still maneuvering to stuff the state’s delegation with allies the senator could call on to snub the presumptive nominee.
“We have a busy weekend planned,” said a source familiar with the Cruz campaign’s plans.
Cruz is scheduled to deliver an address at the Texas convention after a week of hinting he could jump back into the presidential contest and urging activists to thwart the New Yorker’s takeover of the GOP’s policy platform. And despite dropping out of the race more than a week ago, the vanquished presidential contender has deployed at least one paid adviser to the Texas Republican convention – Tyler Norris, his state director. (Trump has three advisers: state director Joshua Jones, deputy director Eric Mahroum and Houston-area director Kayla Hensley.)
It’s not just Texas where Cruz is still playing.
The senator’s team remains active in several of the other eight state conventions selecting delegates this week – from Nebraska to Oklahoma to Nevada. Those conventions, along with party meetings in Arkansas, Florida and Wisconsin, will be selecting 389 national delegates, nearly a sixth of the entire convention.
If Cruz were still working to send the nomination fight to a contested convention, this weekend’s delegate hunt would have been the main event – the largest single delegate selection weekend of the primary season. Now, it’s become a display of Cruz’s last hardcore bastions of support and a forum for Trump to appeal for unity.
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I think you need to start over because I do not have a clue as to what you are talking about. Do you really think I go to one site to get info? I usually go to 10/20 sites a day. I love to read especially comments on different sites. I said what I did because of that info. Bless your little heart. Maybe you need a nap. Or, maybe I do!
It’s not up to you to prove anything. I’ve already explained to you that this ‘liberal rag’ has been accepted as the Gospel, when disparaging Trump.
You say you’re not a cRuzer. Okay, fine.
Who are you supporting and who do you plan to vote for, for President of the USA this November?
We’re seriously going to do this? Well ok here goes....
Weasel Zippers
Twitchy
Bad Blue
Gateway Pundit
Breitbart
To name a few
I am penciling myself in for the position :-)
Trump of course
Haha! Maybe we both do lol
Your commitment to this movement and our great nation means the world to Carly and me.
It’s going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to bring about the change this country needs. Together, we will focus on the issues we know are truly important to Americans: jobs, freedom, and security.
Please help us spread the word by making a donation today if you’re able. Carly and I will put it to immediate use spreading our message across this great country.
Thank you again. With your support, we will win this election and reignite the promise of America.
For liberty,
Ted Cruz
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Above email from the Cruz campaign dated May 9, 2016.
Yes, Two days ago 5/9/16. Notice the end “With your support, we will win this election and reignite the
promise of America.” We will win this election??
When do these games stop? Cruz is preventing party
unity. I cannot believe the lack of respect for the
Republican nominee and next president - Donald J Trump.
He’s turning out to be like gum on the bottom of your shoe! Or in your hair when you wake up!
FUTC!! Now moving towards total betrayal.
Strange and sickening how this poor guy actually thinks he has a say in any of this, anymore.
Hey....you never know....you could be a contender!
;-)
Yep. The Power Elite “Big Steal” project is on.
They are pretty stupid, since their cover is blown and the ordinance aimed at them will hit pretty much accurately on target.
Did she really post that?
Well a Community do nothing never had a real job organizer did proving anything is possible :-)
I don’t think your rant counts as an actual answer to my original question, namely, what specifically was lacking in credibility in that article?
After this campaign he’ll need to do a lot of rehabilitation to get re-elected here in 2018. The bit about him holding Canadian citizenship at the time he ran in 2012 and failing to disclose that isn’t going to be forgotten soon.
Was watching some youtube clips the other night and stumbled across one of Alex Jones holding forth on Ted Cruz’s dad. Apparently, according to him (or his guest) the Nat Enquirer was correct. The main reason Cruz got out of the race was in fact that exposure which was reviving or had the potential to revive interest in the JFK murder- and the Cruz family involvement. That is supposedly devoutly to be wished by the powers that be.
According to them, Rafael WAS the person identified in the Warren Commission photos. They had been trying to identify that person, and it was around that time that the Cruz family made their way to Canada. Another snippet was that Ted’s grandfather had a background in spy ops of one kind or the other.
It sounded so crazy, but I was transfixed as I watched it, and darned if i didn’t wonder if there was some truth to it.
And, where do those BLOGS get their content, for the most part?
CNN, AP, POLITICO, Reuters, NYT ... etc.
A GOP dirty-trickster is quoted in the POLITICO article. I keep my eye on what some of these operatives are planting in any MSM news source.
Perhaps you attempt to discuss your objections to the content of the article itself.
Oh my gosh NO........not Dewhurst....Yuk......I didn’t get to vote in the primary...Hub had heart attack the day before but voted for Cruz’s opponent in the general.
I voted for Cruz and regularly comment on the twisting POLITICO does for the DNC. They are blatant.
Get to the end of this long “Cruz, Trump FIGHT!” screed and...
“Cruz’s allies have not overtly lobbied for delegates yet – they’re not distributing slates of favored candidates. Rather, they appear to be angling to install about two dozen of the senator’s top backers into the 155-member delegation, while letting the rest play out organically – knowing that most Texas convention delegates are his natural allies anyway.
Trump’s advisers, Munisteri added, have been low-key so far.
“They’re there with olive branches,” he said. “Cruz has tremendous support in the state, so they’re not there to rub anybody’s noses in it. They’re there to introduce themselves and start working on party unity issues. They would like to get some of their delegates.” “
The big driver behind delegates fights is that everyone wants to go: it’s good for their careers AND it’s a big fun party. The biggest event in their lives for most of them.
I dunno......I hope they support Trump. Still alot of people out there that can’t think past Cruz getting his butt handed to him but I’d like to think my fellow Texans will see this as an important vote....a stay at home mentality will surely help the wench.
I’m not sure cRuz has the “tremendous support” he once did, or that he may think he has.
I agree that going to the convention is a big to do, for the delegates.
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