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Title: Colorado Proves Donald Trump Can’t Handle The Rigors Of A Campaign [Old Cardburner Exposed!]
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The Federalist
URL Source: http://thefederalist.com/2016/04/11 ... ndle-the-rigors-of-a-campaign/
Published: Apr 12, 2016
Author: Mollie Hemingway
Post Date: 2016-04-12 07:56:15 by Tooconservative
Keywords: None
Views: 3365
Comments: 27
By the end of a statewide assembly on Saturday, Sen. Ted Cruz swept up all of Colorado’s 34 delegates to the Republican National Convention. Donald Trump received none. Trump and his supporters aren’t taking it well. While Colorado Republicans have long held assemblies to pick nominees for various offices, this past year the party decided to cancel its traditional presidential preference poll component after the national party changed its rules to require a state’s delegates to be bound to support the candidate who wins the caucus vote. The decision was made in August of last year, giving campaigns plenty of time to prepare for the change. Here’s how the Also this sober and totally not-insane analysis: Colorado did hold caucuses, in fact. Last month. There they chose delegates to county assemblies. From there, delegates were chosen for congressional district assemblies as well as the state assembly. Party business, including nominations for elected offices and other important decisions, were decided at the various assemblies. Trump responded to his failure to secure a single delegate with: Also: Larry Wayne Lindsey is a Republican voter from Douglas County. Lindsey, an enthusiastic supporter of Donald Trump, posted videos to social media this weekend after he showed up at the state assembly and was told he wasn’t registered to attend. He had no evidence that he was a delegate, but claimed that he was being disenfranchised. Even worse, in the video he seems to claim that he was specifically turned away because he was going to vote for Trump. In fact, according to a series of conversations with party officials, while Lindsey did show up to his precinct caucus and was elected as a delegate to the county assembly, he never showed up to the county assembly, or, at the very least, never signed in for his credentials. On Facebook, he erroneously claimed he’d been elected as a delegate to the state assembly from his precinct caucus, something that is not possible under the rules in Douglas County. “Since Mr. Lindsey did not attend the County District Assembly he was not elected to be a delegate to the State Assembly, nor could he have been, so there is no way that he would have been listed as a delegate to the State Convention when he tried to check in on Saturday morning,” Tanne Blackburn, chairman of the Douglas County Republican Party, explained in a press release. He’s blaming his own comprehension failures on the Colorado Republican Party and claiming the party targeted him for being a Trump voter. In truth, he wasn’t even a delegate to the state assembly to begin with. Nevertheless, he promises that he “will raise holy hell” and is “sick to death” of Douglas County Republicans and “ashamed” of being a Republican. Compare Lindsey to Trey, a 36-year-old Denver man with some interest in Republican politics. When the Colorado GOP canceled their 2016 preference poll, sticking to allocating delegates by assemblies, he wasn’t elated. But he knew what to do. Trey, who asked The Federalist that his last name not be used out of privacy concerns, attended his precinct caucus on March 1. There, he and other Republicans in his neighborhood chose a district captain and four delegates to go to a county assembly. He was one of the delegates so chosen. On March 19, he attended his county caucus. They met at a middle school nearby and elected delegates to go to a congressional assembly and state assembly. Delegates to the Republican National Convention would be elected from both of those assemblies. If you wanted to be a delegate to the national convention, you had to fill out a form and email it to a state Republican official, noting whether you would be pledged to a particular presidential candidate or not. On April 2, Trey attended his Congressional Caucus, where he and his fellow Republicans elected three Cruz-supporting delegates and three alternates to the Republican National Convention. They also made decisions on party business and nominated Casper Stockham, who will run against incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette for Congressional District 1. And, finally, Trey was a delegate to the Colorado Republican assembly in Colorado Springs on Saturday. He paid a fee to attend the county, congressional and state assemblies to which he was elected — ranging from $12 to $65 or so. In the lead-up to those assemblies, he received communications about logistics. Since all campaigns had access to delegate emails, he received communications from campaigns seeking his vote. The Cruz campaign was very organized. They set up a CruzColorado.com site, with an easy-to-navigate interface that allowed delegates to quickly see who was on the Cruz slate for each assembly. The Trump campaign wasn’t visibly organized. Trey did, however, receive a few emails from Trump delegates and unofficial Cruz supporters. The Trump campaign issued error-filled ballots that caused problems for his supporters. In the end, each and every Cruz-slate delegate won easily. Trey was pleased. He still doesn’t mind primaries, although he now says they need to be closed to Republican voters only. But the caucus, as time consuming as it was, worked as well. “I initially thought a primary would be better. Now when I look at it, the people who really care about it and think about it, they’re going to be more involved. The caucus is a pretty good system. It promotes people who are engaged and understand what they’re voting for,” Trey said. Trump’s campaign strategy of emphasizing his ability to win has been a good one. It’s a bit circular — “Vote for me because I win” — but it’s worked well enough to get him just over one-third of Republican-contest votes. However, if he wants to actually achieve victory for the whole enchilada, he needs to do much better. Sometimes he can win a state contest simply with the able assist provided by a compliant media that blushes whenever Trump pays attention to it. But other times it requires even just a little bit of work. Trump has done very well when states allocate delegates through an open primary that enables Democrats and independents to support him. He’s done far less well securing delegates to the Republican National Convention (the actual entity that nominates the party candidate for president) when votes are limited to actual Republicans. Donald Trump says he will make for an amazing and terrific president. But how is going to be an awesome president when he can’t even run a mildly functional operation in Colorado? Caucus-based assemblies are more difficult to win than open primaries, granted. But it’s not like this is brain surgery. It’s entirely doable with just a little bit of understanding about how delegate allocation works. It’s not just Colorado, of course. Trump had no ground game in Wyoming, which picks delegates in a manner similar to Colorado. And because he didn’t understand how the delegate process worked in other locations, he had completely unnecessary struggles in South Carolina, Iowa, Indiana, North Dakota, North Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, South Dakota and Georgia. In Louisiana, his campaign’s cluelessness about party politics might mean he has 10 fewer delegates than Cruz, even though he edged Cruz out in the popular vote. Whining isn’t winning. If Trump wants to secure the necessary delegates to win the Republican nomination when the National Convention assembles for its first vote, he needs to drop the ineffectual and impotent cry of “unfairness” and start learning the rules to the game he’s trying to win. Poster Comment: RedState: The Right Scoop reported early this morning that the Chairman of the Colorado GOP is being inundated with hostile phone calls and death threats from Trump supporters. This happened only hours after his information was published online by a Trump fan and reposted on Trump websites and on Facebook and Twitter hundreds of times. From Soopermexican: This is exactly what happens when you have a fraud and a charlatan running for president and the only way he can get votes is to whip up the stupider and more vicious idiots of the American public. But remember, they want you to believe that it is the other campaigns using “Gestapo” tactics. I keep asking, and I’m asking again: when will someone ask Donald Trump, Roger Stone, or any of their assorted other mouthpieces like Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, Chris Christie, Ben Carson, Katrina Pierson, Scottie Neil Hughes, Eric Bolling, and on and on about this? Will Bill O’Reilly ask? Will Hannity ask? Can they do it without apologizing for asking? Tiger Beat For Trump Drudge Report is handling this latest failure on the part of the Trump campaign to go through the process of winning actual delegates: 
Does George Bush have to invade Colorado to make it a Democracy? STUNNING Republicans had NO PRIMARY or CAUCUS. At least Dems are faking it!
MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) April 11, 2016 How is it possible that the people of the great State of Colorado never got to vote in the Republican Primary? Great anger – totally unfair!
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 11, 2016 The people of Colorado had their vote taken away from them by the phony politicians. Biggest story in politics. This will not be allowed!
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 11, 2016 A Tale Of Two Republican Voters
Trump’s Delegate Game Is A Disaster
As a direct result of DrudgeReport TrumpReport publicizing the Lying Old Cardburner and writing headlines to smear the lawful CO GOP convention process, we now see the Trump thugs publishing the state GOP chairman's address so other Trump thugs can issue thousands of death threats against him and his family.
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#2. To: TooConservative (#0)
The Republicans are fouling their own nest.
We'll see. Trump's own lack of organization and his careless mouth have put a hard ceiling on his support. Cruz continues to build and expand his ground organization across the country and build on his role as the NeverTrump candidate. BTW, you'd better start organizing in your own state. Cruz looks at present to pick it up easily. But then, that would require leaving the TV and internet for a while and actually working for your candidate. You know, that stuff the Trump people call "cheating". Maybe you could make your own Angry Old Cardburner video like the guy in Colorado.
Yep. This is it. It's over for Trump. Now he did it.
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#5. To: Vicomte13 (#2)
The Republicans are fouling their own nest.
#27. To: TooConservative (#5)
"Trump's own lack of organization and his careless mouth have put a hard ceiling on his support."
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