Trump will likely garner more votes than Cruz in West Virginia, but he’s not likely to get as many delegates as Cruz.
The rules in West Virginia are insane. I’ve read them and I still can’t believe it.
Trump is well-positioned for a resounding victory in West Virginia’s May 10 primary, but his win will be accompanied by a delegate selection process stacked in favor of people with last names at the beginning of the alphabet — rather than his most committed supporters.
It’s a quirk of West Virginia’s mind-bogglingly complex delegate election process that has the Trump campaign on red alert and seems likely to leave the mogul with weaker support at the national convention than he’s expected to earn in the state’s primary. It’s yet another convoluted primary system likely to add fuel to Trump’s complaints that the rules of the Republican nomination process are rigged.
“Not even Einstein could easily understand the selection process today,” said Mike Stuart, a former West Virginia Republican Party head and chairman of Trump’s campaign in the state.
So what this article is implying is that the polls for Trump are going to increase even further?
And Wyoming. These GOP pussies are not voting for Cruz. Make no mistake, they are voting against Trump. Time to start exercising the second amendment. Time for a gun powder cleansing. Fucking pussies. This just fortifies my hatred of Bible Boy, the freak.
Tsunami – It does have that ring to it, doesn’t it?
There might be a small chance the clear picture is finally coming into focus with my brother Tsunami. Tsunami, brilliant guy. Not all that intuitive. It’s Trump or the enemy. It’s just that clear .
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads
Hehehe 🙂
Loco, our local subversive communist. Dude, your such a dick I’m sure It’s tattooed slightly above your hairline. 666 on your left cheek bitch.
Hehehe, yes it’s bitchen. Until the end of the month. At that point, not even cheating will save Freak boy and his new girl friend Glenn Beck. That bitch.
Is West Virginia flippin’ Trump the Byrd?
( Robert Byrd )
Brad, you look good in fear.
Asshole, you don’t know fear until you’ve met me. What’s taking place is Tyranical, unless you are a Cruz Freak.
We need a first rate asshole and I was shying away from Trump until that thought entered my mind. Trump is playing by Democrat (heads I win, tails you lose) rules. Cruz is my ideological brother, but I can live with a fighter like Trump who is right (actually has his finger on the pulse of middle America) on most issues.
If the knothead wins, he is going to want to be loved by middle America and as such he will represent me. More so than the eRepublicans and he will fight the eRepublicans and winnow them down to irrelevance and that is just as important as defeating Democrats and their bull shit that middle America is firmly against.
If the goofy son of a bitch wins he is going to want to take his formula of listening to what the mass wants and become wildly successful doing so. I don’t have television, bot I know he is all about listening to the same audience that gave his show high ratings.
I do not identify with middle America when it comes to watching television, but ya’ know what – I entertain myself in middle America and those people are basically on the same page I am politically.
Bad_Brad,
“There might be a small chance the clear picture is finally coming into focus with my brother Tsunami.”
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My stance has never really changed, Brad. I still maintain that this is all bread & circuses for the masses.
The outcome was decided a long time ago – and we ain’t a part of the process.
My initial comment was purely from an observational standpoint.
Hey, I can live with a fighter. And Trump understands the politics of the modern media and exploits it better than Cruz.
I am so sick and tired of funding a fight that did not happen that I am just fine with Trump. I want a man who is a man’s man leading the fight and either Cruz and Trump fit the bill. But Trump knows how to manipulate the media – he plays them like no one’s business.
He is just fine with me.
Regarding Wyoming…
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/04/ted-cruz-celebrates-stolen-delegates-new-tweet/
and
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/04/another-voter-less-win-ted-cruz-wins-wyoming-delegates/
Tsunami, it is not bread and circus due to the unplanned. Mr. Not The Common Denominator. The fly in the soup. The bug in the ointment. The unplanned variable. Yes he’s destroying there little party. Caucus leaders in several states deserve to be strung up. Especially that ass hole in Colorado. I truly hope some patriot catches up to that ass hole. I think it’s called tyranny. And I’m done with weak sisters.
“Don’t be mad. The process was defined a year ago.”
Fuck you. I’ll be mad if I want.
And I wouldn’t be mad if there was an appearance of fairness and openness.
Instead I see the Republicans and Cruz pulling secret Obama-like thug tactics.
And I don’t like it.
Fucking A Joe. These fucking GOP bitches need their asses kicked up around their ears. I’m curious who they think they are? Not My Vote, Not Now. Fuck you.
Republican votes in California for national office are meaningless.
Doesn’t matter who you vote for, or if you vote at all Brad. Same for me. Sucks, but whatcha gonna do?
All Too Much. I couldn’t disagree more. California will push Trump past 1237. The thing is, most people want a damn job.
HOW “CONVENIENT”…
“Voters wishing to select a full slate of Trump delegates can choose up to 22 of them — though if they inadvertently select 23 or more, all of their choices are thrown out. They must also be aware of a new rule to prohibit more than two delegates from residing in a single county — and seven from a single Congressional district — a stipulation that isn’t mentioned on the ballot.
Yet nine of the first 22 names on Trump’s list are from populous Kanawha County, where Charleston, the state capital, is located. And if Trump voters pick them all, seven would be automatically disqualified and replaced by delegates who fit the criteria.”
That is a possibility athough I suspect Trump will wrap it up before June. If not, a lot a junk mail will be arriving in the mail box and the phone will be ringing off the hook. The phone I never answer because I know who calls that phone.
If Cali pushes Trump past 1237 then so be it. Not my first choice but perfectly comfortable with it. He is goofy in a lot of ways, but he fights.
Fuck me Kate – I am a fighter and am up to my eyeballs with pussies who won’t fight. He does not agree wit me on all issues, but he reminds me of someone I know – me.
Now Georgia, today.
“A Cruz-Rubio alliance at the district convention in Buford, Georgia helped to knock Trump supporters out of the district’s national delegation altogether. Cruz supporters implied that Trump’s people would “embarrass” the district at the convention in Cleveland. Then things got heated….
Sen. Ted Cruz finished third in the primary and had no delegates allotted to him…Nonetheless, the hall was stacked with Cruz delegates…..
So, after a hard fought campaign in which Trump won the primary in district 7 fair and square, no one who supports him will be representing the district in his slots at the national convention,” Kurtz added.”
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/04/16/trump-13/
Incredible what trump has got to go thru . does this
not show us how ignorant the electorate is .. ??
if anyone but trump gets in the whitehouse .. we are done for. time is up folks, it will be time for america to die ..
Thanks for Donald J. Trump! I would have never known about all this delegate racket if it weren’t for you and your “whiney” ways.
Now go out there and WIN. ?
Remember when the GOP forced Trump to sign a loyalty pledge to the Republican Party to stay in as a Republican no matter what when they didn’t think he had a chance?
Now that he’s winning it turns out the street named “Commitment” is a one way street!
No matter who you support, like Jerry Mandarin points out it has revealed the delegate racket for what it is.
Same thing on the democRat side only with more irony!
It’s less significant how much
such shenanigans “piss off” Trump,
but moreso the American voters.
TO Tsunami
Why the passivity…or “resignation” if you will?
I ask this SINCERELY:
Have you ever travelled to or lived in a dictatorship?
(you don’t have to answer publicly)
That may be where the bastards are trying to take us, but it is in no way where we are today.
Throw off that cynicism and nihilism!
This is rich!
So, almost 100 years ago the GOP decided that every state could make their own rules in the primaries.
23 elections go by, a little grousing here and there, but everyone knew what they were getting into, so o big deal.
here comes #24 and a guy too lazy or dull to bother learning the rules. After all, he knew the Democrat rules as he was one all his life.
How different could the Republican rules be?
A lot.
The Republicans have no obligation to change almost 100 year old rules just because one person has trouble winning under them.
What a freaking special snowflake Trump is becoming. I he going to demand ‘safe spaces’ at the convention?
I will preface this with I will vote for the sonofabitch and that is about it. I have never seen such a whinning, crying egotistical bullying obnoxious jerk run for office. Also, it has brought out the same thing in his supporters. I will vote for him only because Hillary is even more loathsome. The obnoxious tenor of his campaign is going to deliver the presidency into the hands of the enemy and further the demise of the country I so love.
I hope I’m wrong.
Sample ballots should be constantly distributed.
Pay guys $20.00 an hour wearing Trump t-shirts and Make America Great Again hats, handing out sample ballots with check marks by the qualifying delegates, in the parking lot of every Walmart, Pep Boys, Batteries Plus, Home Depot, hardware store, tobacco store, bar, restaurant, church, pharmacy, sporting goods store, gun store, department store, ladies ready to wear, nail salons, grocery store, shopping malls, unemployment office, and you get the picture.
Sheesh! Do I have to think of everything Donald?
Every complaint voiced here and elsewhere about the complexity of the process and how it screwed Trump could be said about Cruz had he lost. Doesn’t it bother anyone that the Trump campaign chose representatives in those states that obviously didn’t understand the rules and that the candidate skipped dropping by. You begin to wonder whether this is calculated outrage on Trumps’ part having decided that it would be worth it to lose the few delegate votes in those states to bang away on the all the national news on how unfair and fixed the system is against the outsider? Millions in free airtime.
TO scr_north
That’s what this guy suspects
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/trumps_winning_colorado_gambit.html
——You begin to wonder whether this is calculated outrage on Trumps’ part having decided that it would be worth it to lose the few delegate votes in those states to bang away on the all the national news on how unfair and fixed the system is against the outsider? Millions in free airtime.—-
Bingo
Trump knew the rules, knew it was stacked and the knew voters were sidelined even before they did. Not just CO either. He played it with precision…..he let Cruz go full blown establishment and still he will never get the needed delegates by convention time
Aggie hit the nail on the head!
Everything Trump says or does exists only to further his ambitions. He will willingly destroy the Republican party for years and cause repeated lost elections if it means he gets ahead.
He has split the GOP in two for precisely this reason, and a lot of hard feelings will linger on long after he has exited stage left.
As usual, JohnS reverses the logic.
It’s the damn Party’s system, YOU MORON!
THEY carry the responsibility for any “rupture” of the Party…
…unless you’re saying you’re all fine and dandy with the way the GOP has carried on over the past years.
Your cognitive dissonance fails.
Over and over.
PI§$ OFF, LOSER.
TO scr_north
Here’s some additional background
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VoAy4BCJOI
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Lemme get this straight – just so there’s no misunderstanding – the GOP disenfranchises the voters by use of arcane rules but the guy getting the most votes by the PEOPLE is destroying the Party by pointing out that subterfuge?
Isn’t that like blaming your doctor for telling you that you have cancer?
izlamo delenda est …
Czar After the election and all of you party guys and gals go home to sleep it off the work of making changes to the rules and processes will occur, just as it always does.
You all will go to sleep again for four years, only to rise again and bitch about what other people did for four years while you sat on your ass. Just like you did for the last 4 years, and the 4 before that, and the four before that.
You are the kind of person that wakes up at noon and bitches at his mom for not cleaning the house to his specifications.
If you don’t like how the job is being done, get off your ass and do it yourself! Then put up with all the assholes telling you what a crappy job you did.
Some of you Trump supporters make liberals look good by comparison.
If I recall correctly in 2012 most WV citizens registered as republicans voted for Gingrich, but this same system, or other WV GOPe rules they could twist or interpret to their favor, gave Mitt Romney the election victory in WV. Which rightfully upset a lot of WV citizens.
The whining by the Trump supporters blaming this convoluted system as a creation of Team Cruz is very unbecoming.
The problem with Cruz supporters is they think these delicates are supporting Cruz. They’re not. They’re making an effort to stop Trump.
The delicates are obviously supporting Trump.
Cruz is doomed for 2nd place or 1st loser.
JohnS.
STFU.
Oh Aggie.
Nice to see you return.
As always your posts add volumes to the wisdom here.
john you think yours do? Pride before a fall.
JohnS has a YUGE Charlie Horse in his logical thinking muscle. He’s sharp as a fucking marble.
JohnS is the kind of A§$H*LE who feels smugly superior saying, “rules are rules, DEAL with it!”…
…forgetting that WE have the ULTIMATE RUL in November:
FOR whom we vote, and
FOR whom WE DO NOT.
JohnS, you have nothing but 2nd grade cliches and 2 dimentional stereotypes on your side. That, and a shitty candidate BORN TO LOSE.
Blink said-“The whining by the Trump supporters blaming this convoluted system as a creation of Team Cruz is very unbecoming”
Trump supporters aren’t claiming he created it. Dishonest Cruz supporters claim that we are. Like Cruz, you guys have a long distance relationship with the facts
Brad shouldn’t you be saying that our special forces are the sniveling cowards that send anonymous email threats to election officials?
Or pushing dildo rights?
Also, what happened with that guy here that you were threatening to take out when you were drunk the other night. Is he dead yet?