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Ted Cruz poised to challenge Trump in Texas
POLITICO ^ | May 11, 2016 | KYLE CHENEY

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: canadian; cruz; cruzdelegates; cruzie; frembarrassment; ineligible; loooooozer; lyinted; mentalillness; texasconvention; theocracy; twofacedrino
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To: Arthur McGowan; onyx; Jane Long; PA Engineer; Grampa Dave; KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; ...
I signed up for the texts and the emails. I unsubscribed after a month or two. They utterly turned me off.
Every email was devoid of any news. But every email was sent as a result of PRAYER.
And every single time, God was asking for more money!


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201 posted on 05/11/2016 6:46:02 PM PDT by mkjessup (We Don't Know. Where Heidi Went. But She Won't Be Married. To The President. Burma Shave)
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To: grania

I smell a BIG Texas Republican Senate primary coming on......


202 posted on 05/11/2016 6:48:07 PM PDT by MHT (,`)
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To: mkjessup
I'm still convinced Ted is really the illegitimate son of Ernie Angley.


203 posted on 05/11/2016 6:51:17 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: TEXOKIE
"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."

Trumps meeting with Willard's 2012 running mate the day after the clearly uncoordinated taxes hit job (/S really needed lol) is the very definition of "blown cover".

I will be shocked if Ryan pledges his full support, even if his feigned support is transparently fake.

204 posted on 05/11/2016 6:55:30 PM PDT by phoneman08 (Reagan conservative union member. Not as rare as you think!)
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To: catnipman

1) the source Politico is liberal garbage
2) its author sweet sweet little innocent libtard Kyle Cheney who is quite the little rebel rouser. A POLITICO JournoLIST.... Conduct some research on this little wall flower and esteemed graduate of Boston University free thought institution. At such a young age he already established himself as a good little foot soldier as the source of the Ben Caraon hit piece later retracted and proven to be a lie.

But hey if we are all about posting articles from unreliable people and standing behind liberal rags then so be it


205 posted on 05/11/2016 7:12:10 PM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: maggief

See post 205


206 posted on 05/11/2016 7:13:29 PM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: maggief

Ted may be schizophrenic, but at least he’ll always have each other.


207 posted on 05/11/2016 7:51:04 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: vette6387

I would pay big money to see you mail cruz a bag of sh!t.


208 posted on 05/11/2016 7:59:10 PM PDT by PJBankard
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To: grania

Ted and Heidi are at it again. Today’s email: They’ve prayed for direction, and decided that Ted will be running for a second term in the US Senate in two years. So....give whatever you can to help Cruz keep his conservative vision alive.


Zombie GOPe politician!


209 posted on 05/11/2016 8:00:42 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism!!)
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To: silverleaf

Doesn’t he have a day job he’s been neglecting?


Understatement!!


210 posted on 05/11/2016 8:02:43 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism!!)
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To: silverleaf

Not to mention a family in need of attention and affection.


211 posted on 05/11/2016 8:06:16 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Arthur McGowan; mkjessup

212 posted on 05/11/2016 8:10:59 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Jarhead9297; maggief

From Gateway Pundit...

Awful=> Ted Cruz: GOP Voters Don’t Need to Decide on Trump Yet

What a sore loser.
Ted Cruz told supporters today GOP voters don’t need to decide on Donald Trump yet.
The Texas Tribune reported:

In his first interview since dropping out of the presidential race, Ted Cruz said voters do not need to immediately decide whether to support presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump — and left the door open to resuming his own campaign.

Speaking with radio host Glenn Beck, a supporter, Cruz did not say whether he supports Trump, but signaled to supporters they can take their time to assess him.

“This is a choice every voter is going to have to make, and I would note it’s not a choice we as the voters have to make today,” Cruz said. “The voters in the primary have seemed to have made a choice, and we’ll see what happens as the months go forward, but I think we need to watch and see what the candidates say and do.”

Cruz was also asked about the possibility of returning to the race, perhaps if he does well in the Nebraska primary being held Tuesday. Cruz replied he is “not holding my breath” for such an outcome, but made clear he would be open to the opportunity if it presented itself.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/05/ted-cruz-gop-voters-dont-need-decide-trump-yet/


213 posted on 05/11/2016 8:14:47 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: AuntB

I’LL forgive you .... and I’ll forgive myself. It was what it was. Same thing through all the years since the Dole candidacy (and probably even before that.) We were not allowed a choice, and we didn’t understand why not. The onion has been peeled back this year and the system has been exposed.


214 posted on 05/11/2016 8:37:28 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: phoneman08

I tend to believe that Cruz dropped out when he did in part to allow the nevertrump cabal to name a 3rd party candidate before the Texas filing deadline.

Failing that, they are planning something else. Something so nefarious that it requires some sort of “bombshell”, to use Romney’s favorite phrase, to attempt paint the GOP rejection of Trump via delegate seating at the convention.

No doubt, Romney will continue to attempt to sabotage Trump. Perhaps costing him Utah which complicates the electoral map.


I tend to believe that Cruz dropped out when he did in part to allow the nevertrump cabal to name a 3rd party candidate before the Texas filing deadline.

Interesting! I have not seen this idea before....Could be.


215 posted on 05/11/2016 8:39:22 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism!!)
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To: maggief

Jimmy Fallon, after showing discombobulaTED’s return to the Senate (where defeaTED said he might possibly get back into the race) just had a hilarious line about cRuz....

Ted cRuz is like the ex-boyfriend who keeps hanging out with your parents, after you’ve broken up. “Oh, I was here visiting your parents, I didn’t know you’d be here”.


216 posted on 05/11/2016 8:40:03 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: PJBankard
years ago time mag was sending subscription letters with post paid envelopes.

:-)

I placed a shovel full of ripe horse crap in a Styrofoam box, taped it shut, let it stand for two weeks, and then sent it post paid, by affixing their envelope onto the package.

The postal employee said I could only send a sample of organic material, so I described it as a sample of what I thought of their publication.

have not received a solicitation form them for decades, lol.

217 posted on 05/11/2016 8:46:10 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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To: maggief

Additional Reference / Covers Delegates Allotted to Date

CNN's delegate count allocation.

218 posted on 05/11/2016 8:50:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: maggief

Ted, just go away.


219 posted on 05/11/2016 8:52:25 PM PDT by Bridesheadfan
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To: maggief
Ted Cruz poised to challenge Trump in Texas

We'd better be talking about horse shoes here.

Cruz, You lost buddy. Yes, you are one of the 16 losers. Get over it.

Show some class, don't be an a##.

220 posted on 05/11/2016 8:53:43 PM PDT by Barnacle (Thank you... Thank you very much.)
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