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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Apologies but I just don’t hold the same views. I don’t source my information from Politico and a proven Jason Blair Journalist.
I’m for Trump but not at the expense of someone who holds voters Trump must obtain to beat Hillary in the general. Continue pissing those folks off as well as Kasich voters as well as Rubio etc assures a Trump loss.
I’m for bringing them into the fold otherwise we lose. This is not debatable. However maligning them, belittling them does not serve that end
Thanks for your service from an old swabbie.
It is very important that Conservatives direct their fire, between now and the November election, on those who will be on the ballot, supporting the Leftist agenda, that is destroying our heritage. Where possible, we should avoid dissipating out energy and dividing people on the right, taking umbrage at the desperate attempts of the "somewhat Conservative" politicians to appear more relevant than they really are.
Tightly focused fire on the real enemies--those who are actively trying to undermine America should be the battle cry.
(Now that does not mean that we can completely ignore the forked pens of certain humiliated pseudo-conservative journalists who are actively & aggressively seeking to shoot down our candidate--such as the Beck's, Kristols & National Review. They are a special viper class that are obsessed, and have totally earned their collapsing credibility.)
Hahha and the same to you friend! And go Trump!
I had to re-read that date a few times to make sure this wasn’t old news. Pffft!
The great debater is also a STUPID foolish individual.
Well said.
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That is only 2 miles east of the hospital, so a therapeutic work release could probably be arranged.
To be fair, I think Osteen’s personal income is from his books. I.e., he does not have a salary from his church. IIRC.
He doesn’t need one ; )
Prosperity Theology fills churched.
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