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Title: Cruz claims he's won 'landslides over and over' beating Trump in five consecutive states – even though only one of them held an election
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Daily Mail (UK)
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... -states-one-held-election.html
Published: Apr 18, 2016
Author: David Martosko
Post Date: 2016-04-18 13:51:39 by nolu chan
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Views: 1170
Comments: 6
Cruz claims he's won 'landslides over and over' beating Trump in five consecutive states – even though only one of them held an election By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com Published: 08:48 EST, 18 April 2016 | Updated: 09:28 EST, 18 April 2016 Ted Cruz boasted Monday morning that he has won 'landslides' in the last five states to award Republican convention delegates, even though only one of those states held a popular-vote election. 'There have been a total of five states that have voted in the last three weeks,' he claimed during a town hall event on 'Good Morning America.' 'In those states, starting with Utah, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Colorado and Wyoming, 1.3 million people voted in those states. And he lost all five. We have won five in a row, and Donald's upset so he's throwing a fit.' Cruz reiterated moments later that in 'five states in a row, we've won landslides over and over and over again.' Cruz won the April 5 Wisconsin primary decisively with the help of Gov. Scott Walker and other establishment allies. That single state's voting tally accounted for more than 82.5 per cent of the 1.3 million votes Cruz cited. Another 13.6 per cent came from Utah, where the state Republican party opted to hold caucuses instead of a secret-ballot primary election. The rest were spread across North Dakota, Colorado and Wyoming, which awarded him delegates on the basis of party-insider conventions in which his campaign aides worked behind the scenes to win support for their hand-picked slates. Cruz scooped up all 14 of Wyoming's delegates on Saturday after front-runner Donald Trump's campaign made little effort to put up a fight. Wyoming held no primary vote. A total of 475 party activists convened in Casper to hold a state convention and appoint Cruz loyalists to represent them at the Republican National Convention in July. Trump hammered the process, calling voterless victories 'rigged' during a Saturday afternoon rally in Syracuse, New York. But Cruz called it a 'grassroots' triumph. 'We had a tremendous show of grassroots support that resulted in a critical victory at today's Wyoming Republican Convention,' he said in a statement. 'Grassroots are rising up. Republicans overwhelmingly elected delegates who will support us at the national convention and nominate us to take on Hillary Clinton. This is how elections are won in America.' - - - - - - - - - - Poster comment: Lyin' Ted Cruz
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#1. To: nolu chan (#0)
Lyin' Ted Cruz " Careful. Gen Beck will accuse you of blasphemy. Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There are no Carthaginian terrorists. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Wyoming people who showed up. People who show up, get to choose delegates. A day late, and a few bananas short of becoming Colorado delegates. They'll keep repeating the same mistakes and failing, because they're too stupid to realize that they neglected to do what it takes to win. RTFM! (Read The F'n Manual!) But Cruz called it a 'grassroots' triumph. Keep going in that direction, and the Republican voting ground is only going to have stubbly crabgrass roots left, and an impotent rump in Congress. The Supreme Court, the Presidency, the Congress, the federal judiciary, and most of the state houses will end up Democrat. And the Republicans can hold their little caucuses and avoid the people and rage against democracy all they want. Everybody wins that way, except Republicans.
That would leave me as crushed as the Wall Street banks when Hillary stood up to them.
And Cruz/Priebus and fellow travelers will continue to bleed out. They can neither reverse nor credibly defend their course. Trump has engineered a public relations coup.
80% of success is showing up. A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.
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#2. To: nolu chan, Banana Trumpkin bumpkins (#0)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#3. To: nolu chan (#0)
Trump hammered the process, calling voterless victories 'rigged' during a Saturday afternoon rally in Syracuse, New York.
#4. To: Stoner (#1)
Careful. Gen Beck will accuse you of blasphemy.
#5. To: Vicomte13 (#3)
Keep going in that direction...
#6. To: hondo68 (#2)
People who show up, get to choose delegates.
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