Not sure I’ve ever witnessed this strategy before, not out loud, at least.
Two candidates are agreeing to push hard in separate regions in order to block Trump from getting to 1237.
CNN-
Within minutes of each other, the pair issued statements late Sunday saying they will divide their efforts in upcoming contests with Cruz focusing on Indiana and Kasich devoting his efforts to Oregon and New Mexico. The strategy — something the two campaigns have been working on for weeks — is aimed at blocking Trump from gaining the 1,237 delegates necessary to claim to GOP nomination this summer.
Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe said in a statement the Texas senator will focus on the May 3 Indiana primary. He called Trump at top of the GOP ticket “a sure disaster.”
He added: “To ensure that we nominate a Republican who can unify the Republican Party and win in November, our campaign will focus its time and resources in Indiana and in turn clear the path for Gov. Kasich to compete in Oregon and New Mexico.”
Kasich’s chief strategist, John Weaver, said in a separate statement: “Due to the fact that the Indiana primary is winner-take-all statewide and by congressional district, keeping Trump from winning a plurality in Indiana is critical to keeping him under 1,237 bound delegates before Cleveland. We are very comfortable with our delegate position in Indiana already, and given the current dynamics of the primary there, we will shift our campaign’s resources West and give the Cruz campaign a clear path in Indiana.
So much for Cruz being an “outsider”. I vaguely recall someone calling Trump supporters “suckers” a few days ago. I wonder how that crow tastes.
The more I see of Ted, the less I like him.
Kasich is that crazy uncle who thinks he’s solved perpetual motion in his garage.
However, even a barnacle would be better than Hilary
EliminaTED lol
and Kazilch
I can sum this up in one word: Pathetic!
Seriously, 2 candidates to compete with the Donald, Bwhahahahaha!! too funny!!
It’s despicable to see KaSICK and unwanTED working lockstep with the democrats.
Who’s fired now, govlawyer?
This election is full of “never seen’s”.
I have never witnessed such a spectacular and thorough job of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory! All factions of the R side are involved. It’s like a Japaneses game show!
I hope hiliary goes to jail so we have president Bernie instead.
Politics is about building coalitions, that is why Trump has been publically begging Rubio to join him, even offering Rubio a chance to be veep. Trump also has been reaching out to Kasich.
So he is mad that they are both slapping his hand away. What else would anyone expect them to do after what Trump did to them?
Just as the mighty Oz was brought down to a mere man by a little girl, the great and glorious Trump is being outmaneuvered and likely chopped off at the knees by a little loser named Kasich.
What has been most illuminating is to read the comments of “conservatives” defending the party establishment and their pawns.
Menderman writes: “All factions of the R side are involved.” Not true, Mr. M. Not true at all. Trump could have run an independent campaign — in fact has run an independent campaign. The R’s have derived all the benefit of his participation as an R, yet Trump has got less than none.
Maybe Cruz will lower himself to be Kasich’s veep.
JohnS — Once Cruz leaves the race, we can recycle “Lyin'”, using it front of your name.
That is complete BULL? and I hope it backfires like a wet turd in both their feces-laden faces.
Please provide a link, JohnS, to Trump publicly offering the VP to Rubio.
You said, “…after what Trump did to them…” Trump is never sneaky about responding to attacks on him. He doesn’t use surrogates, he doesn’t scratch his nose with his middle finger, he doesn’t speak obliquely-he’s direct and that’s what you do not understand.
His supporters are sick of the BS and a direct speaking candidate that is self funded, beholden to one and is on target addressing the nightmare is one we’re not backing away from.
AA, you may think of being veep as lowering oneself, but considering that you support an egotistical megalomaniac that is not surprising.
Jazz Shaw had an interesting piece this morning that Cruz’s delegate strategy could easily blow up on him and could hand the nomination to Kasich. No wonder he’s willing to go along with the deny Trump a majority approach.
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/04/24/cruzs-contested-convention-delegate-strategy-could-backfire/
Yeah right AA, Trump is glorious. He is the first GOP candidate in history to try to win the GOP nomination by destroying the GOP. He is also trying to win with out the support of the other front runners voters. That may get him the nomination, but won’t get him the general.
OK, now mention the Uniparty, the North American Union and chemtrails, and call me nutz.
That strategy worked so well for Rubio when he tried it, right before he dropped out of the race.
Start here MM.
http://www.people.com/article/donald-trump-vice-president-marco-rubio-john-kasich
If you use a search engine other than giggle you will rapidly find the times he has publically brought it up.
Also the times Rubio has told him NO in no uncertain terms.
No one,
Rubio has not dropped out.
He suspended his campaign.
He WILL be at the convention.
I am constantly amazed at how little Trump supporters know about how the Republican party works.
They can’t all be Democrats, can they?
The part that is unprecedented is the agreement to let candidate A solely campaign in Xland while candidate B solely covers Zland, each candidate giving up on respective territories in hopes his other ally will carry it.
and I believe that is a losing strategy that reeks of desperation.
BFH, is your memory dimming?
Do you really not remember minority candidates separating into ‘southern strategy’ and ‘northern strategy’ to secure influence positions at the convention?
Often afterward they would join forces giving them substantial leverage.
Many run for the office not to win the office, but to gain political power through the one they help make it out of the convention alive.
Trump’s own words say it best:
“It is sad that two grown politicians have to collude against one person who has only been a politician for ten months in order to try and stop that person from getting the Republican nomination.
Senator Cruz has done very poorly and after his New York performance, which was a total disaster, he is in free fall and as everyone has seen, he does not react well under pressure. Also, approximately 80% of the Republican Party is against him. Governor Kasich, who has only won 1 state out of 41, in other words, he is 1 for 41 and he is not even doing as well as other candidates who could have stubbornly stayed in the race like him but chose not to do so. Marco Rubio, as an example, has more delegates than Kasich and yet suspended his campaign one month ago. Others, likewise, have done much better than Kasich, who would get slaughtered by Hillary Clinton once the negative ads against him begin. 85% of Republican voters are against Kasich.
Collusion is often illegal in many other industries and yet these two Washington insiders have had to revert to collusion in order to stay alive. They are mathematically dead and this act only shows, as puppets of donors and special interests, how truly weak they and their campaigns are. I have brought millions of voters into the Republican primary system and have received many millions of votes more than Cruz or Kasich. Additionally, I am far ahead of both candidates with delegates and would be receiving in excess of 60% of the vote except for the fact that there were so many candidates running against me.
Because of me, everyone now sees that the Republican primary system is totally rigged. When two candidates who have no path to victory get together to stop a candidate who is expanding the party by millions of voters, (all of whom will drop out if I am not in the race) it is yet another example of everything that is wrong in Washington and our political system. This horrible act of desperation, from two campaigns who have totally failed, makes me even more determined, for the good of the Republican Party and our country, to prevail!”
SOURCE
https://pjmedia.com/diaryofamadvoter/2016/04/24/its-war-trump-strikes-back-at-cruz-and-kasich-collusion/
JohnSh!tforBrains: “Trump has been…offering Rubio a chance to be veep.”
PROOF, little AHOLE, PROOF. And NOT from some Cruz-addled source.
Like Abigail said, “Lyin’ John.”
(How queer. Most of us SIT on one.)
😛
So this makes Cruz dirty and a part of the “establishment” while Trump is the “outsider” and somewhat clean even though he is working with McConnell and telling party leaders how he is going to change his “act” from being a populist to appearing more presidential.
This is just amusing to watch the Trump followers hang their hat on anything they can find to claim he is still their savior. I don’t think Cruz is perfect or even close. I don’t like Kasich at all and wish he would just go away.
Someone here once said all he wanted was Cruz supporters to admit he had problems and wasn’t exactly what they think he is to them.
Wouldn’t it be great to have the same for Trump’s followers….
Menderman: “..of the other front runners voters.”
Front runners? Neither Cruz nor Kasich have been front runners or even close to being front runners*. Front ruiners, maybe.
TO Woody
Same goes for you here as I wrote to Menderman on another thread:
I trust you heard Manafort say he went through all these gyrations (speaking with McConnell) as a olive branch, and effort to build bridges…and now YOU and the smearing, deceitful, Cruz-addicted media WANT TO BLAME Trump/Manafort FOR TRYING?!?
REALLY?
“Thanks” (/s) for ONE MORE REASON
never to trust the GOPe or its defenders.
Hubris is often used as a marinade….for Crow
p.s. to Woody
THAT’S EXACTLY THE PROBLEM
WITH TOO MANY OF YOU CRUZ SUPPORTERS:
WE acknowledge we support Trump – warts and all!
Whereas YOU Cruz supporters seem to be the ones
blinded by your MESSIAH (at least that’s what his DAD said!).
Now someone tell me how Cruz is not part of the GOP/RNC machine. JohnS Trump did not offer him the VP spot nor is he begging Rubio for anything.
AA, darling, “front runners” is plural, and if you are too daft to understand that, please quit responding to me.
Trumpers are funny people.
Trump says, on more than one occasion that Rubio would be a good veep for him.
Is Trump just rambling about nonsense, or does he say things for a reason.
You can’t have it both ways. Most reporters, and Rubio himself got the impression Trump was asking Rubio to join him.
By the way, Trump is aware of this and has never refuted it even though it was all over the news.
There is fantasy Trump, all rainbows and unicorns, then there is real Trump, a sly political animal intent on splitting the Republican party apart so that it is too weak to take on Hillary.
Menderman, sweetie, you are delusional to lump Cruz and Kasich into your plural — “front runners.” They are only front runners in your mind. Most rational people would have thought, given their mathematical impossibility to achieve the nomination through merit, they should drop out and not be spoil sports, subverting the will of the voters who did not vote for them. That you and others here favor subverting the will of voters makes you not only not conservative, but anti-American. Those are the facts.
eliminaTED? Not until Trump gets 1237 delegates.
AA, let me use smaller words. Trump is trying to win with out the supporters of other people that are running for president.
Is that better?
Menderman, And he will, too.
I think the correct summation to all these remarks is obvious…the GOP is destroying itself! The will of the voters has little or nothing to do with the GOP or the Dhimmos…
Good point Jon.
Also, those 1237 have to be votes at the convention, not just obligated delegates.
No delegate has ever been arrested or even charged for not voting as promised. It is something that happens not infrequently.
Menderman — Is this just now occurring to you? He’s been winning despite the onslaught of attacks *from* those who support other candidates — particularly those who support Crusich.
JohnSh!tForBrains, POOR ATTEMPT at changing what you claimed.
YOU CLAIMED Trump had offered it (“chance to be veep”) to Rubio.
YOU LIE.
And WORSE: YOU SUCK at lying.
Trump OFTEN says he “likes” this or that person.
He also said his sister, a judge, would be a great justice.
He DID NOT say he’d nominate her…yet THAT is exactly what sh!thead LIARS like you and the Cruz-addled Rightist Media claimed.
TO AA
Maybe Menderman uses the “runners up” as a gentle sort of
PARTICIPATION TROPHY
in anticipation of
YET ANOTHER
HUMILIATING, CRUSHING LOSS
tommorrow.
Ted is ENTITLED to that trophy!
Winning a plurality does not make you the nominee, winning the majority does. Trump has won a majority in what, one state? Cruz has won in 7 or 8 (or about), yet Trump plans on winning in November without the Cruz supporters? That is insane!
If Trump wants to win outright, then he needs to get 1,237 delegates. Those are the rules. Stop whining about Cruz. Cruz is not the problem. Trump’s problem is that a lot of conservatives freaking hate him. My state of NC passed a perfectly sensible law to try and keep men’s room for men and women’s rooms for women. And Trump’s dumb ass comes out and criticizes us. Thanks Donald. We really need the GOP front runner undercutting our efforts to have a normal state to live in. I guess when he’s president every state will be as retarded and “progressive” as NY.
.err…”front runners”.
OOPS
Menderman — This is a national election for POTUS, not President of the State of _________. Your example is not debate worthy material.
TO Menderman
In this Primary election, it is that Rule #40 that talks about “a majority of delegates in at least 8 States or territories”.
SEE THIS:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/republican_delegate_count.html
I don’t know what sort of whacky source you have that talks about majority of “votes” in each State, but it seems sort of silly and meaningless to me.
Abigail Adams.
“Crusich.” FRICKEN GENIUS. BigFurHat…that has a graphic all over it!
?
Kasich can’t win the general with out Trump and Cruz supporters voting for him. Cruz can’t win without Trump supporters. Trump cant win without Cruz supporters. If you do not believe that, you are very wrong.
BTW, none of this matters. Trump has successfully made the GOP fractured and useless. Divided we will fail, and divided we are. Like I said, the 2016 team has thoroughly and successfully snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Cruz and Kasich are helping to secure that defeat with this new strategerie. I see it as understandable considering the behavior of the front runner, but this is the final nail.
I just hope we can keep congress.
I’m well aware of rule 40 and that it pertains to delegates. Both Trump and Cruz have reached that mark, and I have said that many times. My comment was to do with voters and how Trump can’t win the general without the other candidates supporters (voters).
TO Menderman
BLACKS who feel disenfranchised, used/abused, fed up with the Democrat Plantation.
LATINOS/HISPANICS who are sick of having their LEGAL efforts undermined by the ILLEGAL ALIEN INVASION enabled by the Democrats.
WOMEN fed up with the “vote for me, I have a vagina!” mentality.
LEFTISTS equally p!ssed off at THEIR Establishment Machine as WE are of ours, who will REFUSE to vote for Hillary.
These, and many, many more, are the folks who will vote FOR ONE MAN AND ONE MAN ONLY…whether he runs as the GOP candidate or is forced to run independently: DONALD TRUMP.
ANYONE who thinks FOR ONE SECOND that ANY of those folks would even CONSIDER voting for Cruz or Kasich needs psychiatric help STAT.
The GOP was fractured before Trump entered the race Menderman.
If they truly wanted to beat Hillary, Cruz and Kasich would bail out of the race and support the front-runner.
Trump can beat Hillary. Cruz can’t and wont.
JohnS wrote: “No delegate has ever been arrested or even charged for not voting as promised. It is something that happens not infrequently.”
Thank you for calling attention to at least one aspect of the corruption within the R party. Those who laugh and wink at this cannot possibly understand what it means to American voters to have one’s vote arbitrarily nullified. And that is so hard to fathom, given that those who support despicable cheating to win elections are, presumably, voters themselves. Election fraud is what this is and should not be tolerated by anyone. And it discourages Americans from participating in our election process. The D’s have got nothing on the R’s in this regard.
What do you base that on Super Toe?
The same fact that makes you think Trump fractured the GOP
Whose votes are being nullified? the 68% of SC voters that voted other than Trump? Over half the voters were disenfranchised in Florida and Arizona too by you standards. You don’t get it both ways.
Trumpsters are proud that Trump is destroying the GOP, and so is Trump.
AA, this is NOT the Democrat convention being discussed.
Republican delegates are not bought and paid for. They are people involved in a process.
You supporters and Trump himself are regularly calling these people vile names and accusing them of corruption, as you just did again.
These are people, not political props. You insult them they get mad, they get mad, they don’t do what you want them to do.
This concept is stupid simple, so why is Trump sabotaging his own chances?
Czar, blacks will vote 97% for Hillary or the democrat candidate.
They have for years and will continue to do so.
Any Trump supporter that thinks Trump will get any traction with blacks is extremely delusional.
Hispanics will vote AGAINST Trump in vast amounts.
I admire your wishful thinking but it aint gonna happen.
Trump will need a low turnout of democrats and an inordinate turnout of his voters.
Yes, this season record number of voters have voted but Trump has done his best to alienate those that used to support him.
Many will simply sit this one out and let the chips fall…
You mean the GOP that repealed Obama care? The GOP that for the past 8 years sat on their asses and did nothing while Obama and his minions destroy our country?
If Trump is destroying that GOP, then I don’t see why
you’re in such a huff Menderman.
Menderman — We don’t have a coalition government or a parliament. Again, your example makes no sense. Besides, I was referring to delegates voting at the convention. If you have the honor of being selected as a delegate, you should vote your representation, not brag that you are going to against the will of the voters who sent you there.
I don’t want to burn down the house because the roof leaks and the septic tank is stopped up. I want to fix what is broken. Trumpsters wanna nuke the whole neighborhood and think the neighbors should thank them.
So, AA, you support the idea that 68% of the SC delegates should vote for a nominee other than Trump, right?
Menderman — Your example stinks on ice and you know it. You now sound like a Crusich surrogate on Fox News. We both know how many candidates were in the SC primary. How can Trump win 100% of the SC vote in the primary when the race was split X ways? What you are saying, in effect, is that all the other candidates who received votes in SC should also be represented at the national convention according their proportional votes whether they are still in the race or not. Nonsense.
You would be ideally employed on the RNC’s rules committee, though.
Cruz was shut down the government over Obamacare when Trump was in favor of it. And Cruz is the phony?
OK, just give Cruz his 22.3% and Kasich his 7.6%.
Fair enough?
Oh, and Trump gets his 32%, and the rest are unbound.
Mkay?
TO Menderman
Your point that
*some CRUZ supporters won’t vote for TRUMP or KASICH,
*some TRUMP supporters won’t vote for CRUZ or KASICH,
*some KASICH supporters won’t vote for TRUMP or CRUZ,
Is well taken, but sort a “WELL, DUH!”
Of MUCH GREATER SIGNIFICANCE and IMPORTANCE is:
how many millions
of GOP Establishment supporters
will vote for HILLARY
if TRUMP or CRUZ are the candidate.
Menderman, No, you would prefer to patch up the basically bad and dangerous electrical system, hot glue some roof tiles back in place, slap some Fix-All over the wood rot, throw some paint over the whole thing and call it good. “Next year we’ll really get it done right!” Or, “Who cares? Let the next guy deal with it!”
Loco,
All I can say is there are analyses out there (don’t have ’em at my fingertips) which show a (to me) surprisingly high level of support for Trump from those categories (the first 3 at least…Sanders supporters is more anecdotal).
Now would be a good time for a final debate between the three of them.
I would watch that.
TO AA
SHAME on you! you forgot
*** D U C T *** T A P E ***!!!
Very few will vote for Hiliary, likely not even enough for a rounding error.
Many millions will only vote down ballot, and worse, many millions more will stay home.
Czar, it is crazy that they stay on the democrat plantation but they do.
I don’t think Trump is even counting on any of the black vote.
Why should he?
That would be a waste of his time.
It is sad but true.
I would wager anyone on this site that the dem nominee gets 90%+ of the black vote in the general election.
It is a lead-pipe lock!
Loco: let’s “compromise”…
How ’bout a Demolition Derby?!?
@Menderman
“He is the first GOP candidate in history to try to win the GOP nomination by destroying the GOP.”
Trump did not destroy the GOP. The GOP destroyed the GOP.
Yeah, Trump get’s 60+% of republican Hispanics, and Trumpers think it means 60% of all Hispanics.
We deserve to lose.
This move is transparent and chicken shit. Cruz and Kasich just pushed a lot of undecideds into the Trump camp. Wait and see.
Czar — Holy Moly! The universal remedy!! Or as Red Green would say, “It’s only temporary unless it works.”
“Now would be a good time for a final debate between the three of them.”
You do not debate losers.
TO Loco
Please don’t take it to the other extreme: NO ONE is saying 90% of blacks will go for Trump.
Analyses I’ve read say anywhere from 15-20% (recent record: 3-7%) of the black vote for Trump could turn the tide in the General.
HERE’S what I see:
KASICH’s CAR
http://coolridesonline.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Wayne%E2%80%99s-World-Garth%E2%80%99s-1976-AMC-Pacer.jpg
Czar, can you give me the Vegas odds on that?
Bet the under!
Is Trump picking Sharpton as his VP?
Those numbers are such a pipe dream.
Even you have to suspect them to be very unrealistic.
HERE’S what I see:
CRUZ’s car
http://cdn.hiconsumption.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Batmans-Hot-Rod-Batmobile-1.jpg
HERE’s what I see:
TRUMP’s car
http://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/img/editorial/2013/09/17/101039516-Golden%20Lambo.530×298.jpg?v=1380725471
“You do not debate losers.”
Words of a coward.
Name calling or not, he’s ahead.
Cruzich donors are NOT happy! Trump is the way to go to beat Hillary. Get on board the Trump Train.
This is from a poll in September, last year. There may be other controlled polls out there, but I didn’t see any on a quick search:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/09/shock-poll-trump-receives-25-of-black-vote-enough-to-ensure-a-gop-landslide/
So Hillary is ahead in the polls therefore she shouldn’t debate Trump.
Got it.
Bakbakbakbak…baggook!
Do you want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN or TrusTED?
You know the Cruzich move is SLIMY. Cruz and Kasich will just try to screw each other at the convention.
BAD MOVE.
Trump shines the disinfection light on BAD POLITICS!
sCruz and Kasich will eventually argue who wants to be the top or the bottom and end up getting a divorce at the Convention.
#Trump2016
@Lobo – Trump already beat sCruz and Kasich hence the morphed, gay, tag team coupling of sCruz and Kasich.
Which bathroom does sCruz and Kasich use?
Anyone hanging on a poll that predicts an election 8 months from now is an IDIOT!
What did the polls say 8 months ago?
TO Loco
Please stop moving goalposts.
You were referring to Cruz/Trump/Kasich…NOT Hillary/Trump.
ALSO: the General Election campaign hasn’t even begun!
“You do not debate losers.”
Words of wisdom.
Trump is winning by merit. The people’s choice.
The fish rots from the head. Just like Crusich supporters to change the argument when they are losing.
Did I miss something? How can Kasich be considered in Cleveland having won only one state?
Any way you look at it, this election is going to be the FULL CATASTROPHE!
All I said was a debate would instructive right about now.
Then the “you don’t debate losers” crap was posted.
All you Trumpers know, you KNOW that Trump is an empty suit that can only insult his was to the nomination.
The man has no substance. No core.
My favorite thing to read that makes me LOL:
“Trump is not a politician”
Bwhahahaha!
You guys keep repeating that.
Man oh man, WOW!
If Trump BEATS this amazing onslaught from his OWN party what do you think he’s going to do to Hillary?
“Imagine how well Donald Trump would be doing if his own party weren’t spending every waking moment trying to destroy him”!
LEARN TO LOVE the Donald and BEAT Hillary!
The way this is all going, it looks to me like the GOPe thinks it’s been delegated to a third party status. If the Republican voters nominate Trump, and Trump wins in November, what will the GOPe have to say to cover their asses?
If Trump wins Indiana, Crusich is toast.
If Trump picks Rubio as a running mate? Well, nobody picks a brainiac for Veep since JFK.
“onslaught from his OWN party”?
No, the DEMOCRATS have yet to begin laying the wood to ol’ Donald.
four years ago this same f-n GOP chose the mannequin and the kid from the munsters. Brilliant moves. This year is much better, especially after tomorrow when Trump crushes the GOP’s favorites, Crasich.
At the end of this tunnel is sunlight and a new day. The good old boy club will be gone, eliminaTED when Trump is elected. They wont give up readily or nicely, but they will lose.
Trump debated Cruz countless times. It’s over.
The presumptive nominee does not debate the losers.
TO Burner
I wouldn’t place TOO much weight on Indiana. Yes, it has 57 delegates, a nice amount.
More significant will be where the numbers stand in 2 days.
All of May holds another 199 delegates (5 states total, including Indiana’s 57). June 7 (last day, 5 states) holds 303.
LONG way to go…AFTER Indiana (May 3).
@LBS
“No, the DEMOCRATS have yet to begin laying the wood to ol’ Donald.”
Why state the obvious? The DEMOCRATS are suppose to lay wood on ANY Republican candidate.
Trump OWNS the MEDIA (Democrat megaphone). Cruz and Kasich would be decimated by the MEDIA (Democrat megaphone).
Get on board the TRUMP TRAIN! Learn to LOVE the Donald!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WUVP6l9Das
AA, Kasich gets to keep his bound delegates, at least for the first round of votes at the national convention, after each round the rules change. This gives power to Kasich to help elect a winner or try for other delegates. The rounds continue until somebody has 1237 delegates. At some point, all delegates become entirely unbound, and the delegates can vote for anybody. This is not a new process.
TO Loco
“Trump is an empty suit that can only insult his way to the nomination. The man has no substance. No core.”
I think I can (cautiously) speak for quite a few Trump supporters when I say that I see Cruz’s “substance” and “core” as nothing but a fraudulent facade. You still buy into it. That’s okay. I sure don’t.
I see his “true, principled conservative Christian” schtick as merely one tool in his toolbag to sate his bottomless ambition for power; over the course of the campaign so far, he has exposed himself for the vile, run-of-the-mill cutthroat politician he is.
Ambition for power. Trump HAS HAD power and wealth for years (decades?). Yet he’s going through this. I must say I’m impressed by the move, for a man in his position and at his age.
You ride the Trump Train and follow the tracks, I’m aboard the Cruz Missile and intend to soar!
“All Trump’s delegates earned through popular vote.
#LyinTed earned many delegates through party elitism & deception.”
And now COLLUSION.
SLIMY POLITICAL BULLSHIT!
Soar back to Canada!
No matter how you slice it #Never,
Donald J. Trump is a
Democrat Politician from New York.
All his history points directly at this.
His knee-jerk response to any problem is default liberal democrat.
That Trump tiger has democrat stripes and ya’ll know it.
He has been playing political games all his life and will continue to do so.
Not a politician? Incredible!
I will admit that Trump is talking a good game right now, kind of like Cam Newton before this years Superbowl.
into ‘southern strategy’ and ‘northern strategy’ to secure influence positions at the convention?
>>>
That’s not what southern strategy means.
The Cruz/Kasich gambit does not apply.
They are not giving up on demographics that don’t appeal to their strengths and sending in a “black friendly” surrogate, that will later throw the support towards the guy weak with blacks. They are giving up on entire states in an effort to block the frontrunner, hoping that it will cause a brokered convention so the candidate that no one really wanted can somehow win.
This is an entirely new strategy, one that I can’t wait to see.
This is supposed to lead to a united GOP… lol.
“This is supposed to lead to a united GOP… lol.”
lol indeed.
@LBS – i guess you swallowed ALL that GOP bullshit that if we win the House we can change things. Then you swallowed the GOP bullshit that if we win the Senate we can really get things done with the power of the purse.
Then the GOP did the OPPOSITE and FUNDED Obama – BLANK CHECK.
Now you’re going to believe a FIRST term Senator (Lawyer/Politician/Preacher) from Texas (easy state to win preaching Bible and Constitution) that HOLDS the BIBLE HIGH and shouts CONSTITUTION is a GOP outsider beholden to nobody (REALITY: beholden to the GOP and DONORS).
You’re going to believe the GOP bullshit that Cruz is an “outsider” when he’s getting ALL the help he can from the GOP establishment to the point of stealing delegates and COLLUSION with the GOP to STOP a REAL OUTSIDER?
The OUTSIDER promises to BUILD a WALL, ENFORCE IMMIGRATION (which Cruz is a mess on), bring jobs back to the U.S., make FAIR TRADE deals, respect police, our veterans, STOP unvetted Immigration, REPEAL ObamaCare, blance our budget, REPEAL Common Core, END sanctuary cities, DEPORT criminal illegal aliens and KEEP THEM OUT!
I’ll take a NON-Politician’s promise than a politician’s promise this time around.
Give it a shot. If he fails. Vote him out in 4 years!
This is a desperate attempt by desperate people to save the Gravy Train. And those desperate people are not the ones running for office.
Baseball bats? Riding a missile? Hey! No prob. This one’s for all you Cruz blow hards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YCy9rLMuwM
Already Jeff Roe / Cruz tried to double cross / screw Kasich over with this new “alliance”.
Cruz leaked email telling supporters not to vote Kasich.
Cruz is in bed with the devil. Epic fail!
John Kasich snaps at reporter: ‘I’m not desperate — are you desperate?’
Titanic panic!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YCM698LsjAI
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What a clusterf**ck-
This can only help Trump LOL
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/277500-kasich-indiana-voters-ought-to-vote-for-me
https://twitter.com/DebAlwaystrump/status/724664935632891905
SuperToe — This can only help Trump because Scruz and that other son of a mailman first made the amateur error of underestimating the intelligence and discernment of all the voters they’ve contemptibly pandered to. They thought everyone was a bunch of dummies. But voters see right through Crusich. Trump is winning because Crusich proves Trump right about career pols.
BFH Go back to the Nixon and Reagan races.
Look at what and where the minor players invested.
Yes, they stayed out of each others way grabbing sections mostly in either the north or the south as the west was basically not in play.
You may think that the way it worked out was an accident, but it wasn’t. Areas were strategically set up. Nobody cried foul because it is part of how the system is set up.
Trump is crying foul because, as a lifelong Democrat, he doesn’t understand how our system works and keeps getting caught flat footed.
Yea, that must be why he’s so far behind in the delegate count and sucks in all he polls. He obviously needs more strategary.
JohnS – haven’t you already made enough of a fool of yourself?
Time to feed the chickens.
Why the fuck did I read all of that?
Knowing what you now know, but you are still supporting the snake oil peddler, have lost ALL credibility.
I’ve stopped reading your posts at least two weeks ago, and don’t give a plug nickle what you think because you try to cover up that you are pro-Hilli .and in love with her policies.
Gladys, no reason to fear, I will never catch up to you.
You realize, of course, that all this is just a set up?
The entire affair is simply to maintain the pretense that voting matters!
Come November, or even January, the ferals will still be on the socialist plantation, the musselmen will continue their invasion, the illegal alien invading rat-people will remain within our frontiers, we will still owe $20(+)Trillion through the Fed (and $220Trillion in unfunded liabilities), the Treasury will stay a source of plunder for the well-connected and their politician operatives, and the American taxpayers will take it up the ass – even harder.
And America will fall back into its slumber … fat and satiated by the illusion of “democracy” (as exercised in our dead “republic”).
UNTIL …
izlamo delenda est …
Okay. NOW I’m off the Cruz wagon even though I’d still reluctantly vote for him.
My head is spinning.
Heard on radio last night that Kasich is vetting possible running mates.
This is beyond insane. What part of “one out of 34 contests” does he not understand?
“he doesn’t understand how our system works”
Please explain how our “system” works?
Imagine 8 years of pure comedy gold. I am! http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/04/25/trump_mocks_kasich_for_giving_interviews_while_eating_pancakes_disgusting.html
#alwaysDNC I couldn’t explain baseball in a few paragraphs, and I am a little league umpire. The way the Republican party works and it’s rules are a LOT more complicated than baseball.
I would suggest you join the GOP, become a Republican, and start learning if you really desire to know.
If you want to stay in the DNC and snipe from the outside, as you have been, you will never figure it out.
As to the above, you do realize, don’t you, that ‘never GOP’ means not even Trump as he is still a Republican, at least last time I checked.
Your hashtags are almost always pro Hillary.
jerry, you have seen the video of Trump talking while eating pizza with a knife and fork, haven’t you?
If not, do a quick search. It is hilarious.
I’ve been told by Trumpsters that his stance on my states bathroom and public showers is nothing but a shiny squirrel that distracts from walls….so long as we get a wall, a wall dammit! We need a fracking wall, forget the little stuff like dudes in girl showers!
And then their guy is way cool and shit for mocking how other people eat, and think that is what a president should do.
I’ll say it again….
We deserve to lose.
Oh, and they say Trump is the only guy that can beat Hillary because!
Ask them why they believe that they say “because”.
prod them more and they quit answering the question.
Trump supporters are as deep as a puddle on a pin point.
STOP the STEAL!!!
Colorado County GOP Chair: Errors with Ted Cruz’s Delegate Win, Might Need Do-Over
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/04/25/colorado-3/
@JohnS
ROTFLMAO – you can’t explain the rules because they are so “complicated”. They’re made complicated on purpose – so the system can be RIGGED in the RNC’s favor.
Trump has the MOST VOTES. Trump has the MOST DELEGATES.
Tell me why Trump should not win?
Ted Cruz and John Kasich are no longer running Presidential Campaigns. It’s now a disenfranchise the voter campaign.
JohnSh!tForBrains
It was KASICH eating pizza with a fork and knife, you A§$H*LE, NOT TRUMP, YOU F*CKING LIAR!!!>/B>
COD, Trump and Palin did the same thing..look it up before you look stupid….or is it too late?
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
#Trump2016
FYI
https://iotwreport.com/pizzagate/