Elections GOP 2016 Primary Thread V5: 2 Hispanics and a Bigot Walk into an Election Edition

[speakhandsforme]

Oh man, that Trump pic hurt my gut

 

[Adamant]

Would Rubio ever consider V.P. on a Kasich/Rubio ticket if it goes to a brokered convention?

I don't believe he's said anything about it yet. But on at least three separate occasions now I've heard Kasich say definitely he will not accept VP. He always says if he loses, he's going back to Ohio.

 

[Lead]

Carson Praises Two Sides of Trump in Endorsement

Retired neurosurgeon and former presidential candidate Ben Carson endorsed Donald Trump on Friday, saying they “buried the hatchet” on past campaign attacks and have found common ground politically and personally.

Explaining what led him to back the GOP front-runner, Carson noted that he had seen “two different Donald Trumps,” one of which left him pleasantly surprised.


“There’s the one you see on the stage,” Carson said, “and there’s the one who is very cerebral, sits there and considers things very carefully. You can have a very good conversation with him. And that’s the Donald Trump that you’re going to start seeing more and more of right now.”

 

[Frank23]

 

[GearSolidMetal]

This bitch is crazy. FoxNews is a 24/7 Trumpathon.

Their respite towards Trump is fueling his popularity on both sides of the isle.

 

[Lead]

Cruz Changes Tune on Delegates Before Tuesday's Vital Contests

Maybe it wouldn't cause a "manifest uprising" after all to let party insiders have a crack at picking the Republican presidential nominee.

A week after saying that it would be "illegitimate" and "wrong" for Washington insiders at the Republican National Convention to nominate a candidate against the wishes of most voters, Ted Cruz said Sunday it would actually be fine if the convention chose between him and Donald Trump as long neither had achieved the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination automatically.

"If Donald and I both go into the convention and we’ve both got a big chunk of delegates but both of us are shy of 1,237, then the delegates will decide," the Texas senator told ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos." "That’s how the process works and that’s allowing democracy to operate."

 

[K1levelgrappler]

http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/13/r...tion-not-bound-on-first-ballot/#ixzz42u0bF8le

A Republican National Committee Standing Rules Committee member told the membership Friday that convention delegates are not bound to cast their votes at the convention according to primary vote results in the first round of voting.

Curly Haugland of North Dakota, a long time member of the RNC Standing Rules Committee, sent a letter to the RNC membership at large about this issue. He explained how he came to the conclusion that all Republican delegates who participate in the 2016 Republican National Convention are unbound on each ballot round, including the first.

If Trump doesn't wrap this thing up Cleveland could be an absolute shitfest.

 

[Lead]

Trump mocks Christie at rally

Donald Trump hit his newfound sidekick Chris Christie with some friendly fire on Monday while trying to attack Ohio Gov. John Kasich ahead of his home state’s Tuesday primary.

Trump, speaking a campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio, accused Kasich of having abandoned his gubernatorial duties to campaign in New Hampshire.

 

[Lead]

The End of Marco-mentum

The last time I saw Marco Rubio in person, he seemed to be on the verge of inheriting the charred Republican earth. It was Feb. 22, the day before theNevada caucuses. We were aboard Rubio’s campaign plane, flying from Reno, Nev., to Las Vegas. Rubio is 44, but he can sometimes come off like an overgrown and hyperactive boy, jiggling his leg when he is otherwise still. He seemed to be in a sunny mood.

“This was a great day for us,” said Rubio, who had not yet resorted to making pee-pee jokes about the Donald. At the time, consensus was building among the pundit geniuses (whose consensuses are, of course, always correct) that Rubio was now the preferred alternative to Donald J. Trump.

 

[Lead]

Ted Cruz Courts an Old Adversary: The G.O.P. Establishment

Senator Ted Cruz, who rode a wave of voter fury to Tea Party stardom and once called the Republican majority leader a liar on the Senate floor, has begun appealing to “our better angels.”

Less than three years after colleagues accused him of misleading his own supporters about the efficacy of a government shutdown, Mr. Cruz recently scolded Donald J. Trump for “taking advantage” of “low-information” voters.

And while some of his allies took delight in Mr. Cruz’s lack of endorsements from fellow senators, arguing that this solidified his standing as a Washington outsider, he has begun openly courting establishment figures with a practical pitch: I am your last, best hope.

 

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[ucunc156]

Lol at that kasich gif

 

[Fatt Hughes]

That Kasich enthusiasm.

 

[COTUR1@43]

Is that Rumble's kid in the blue hoodie?

Rumble's thinking...

 

[Culombo]

trump tweeting that his name isn't showing up in certain districts .. hmm .. the fix is in

how is it even possible that the front runner would mistakenly be left off the ballot while 12 others show up lol including people who aren't even in the race any longer .. jim effin gilmore shows up there ..

the establishment isn't even trying to be slick about their intentions now .. just straight up in your face fraud ..

 

[Lead]

trump tweeting that his name isn't showing up in certain districts .. hmm .. the fix is in

how is it even possible that the front runner would mistakenly be left off the ballot while 12 others show up lol including people who aren't even in the race any longer .. jim effin gilmore shows up there ..

the establishment isn't even trying to be slick about their intentions now .. just straight up in your face fraud ..

I'm sure we will find out this is BS. The bigger problem is people blindly believing a twitter comment than elections trying to be fixed.


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/florida-election-officials-trumps-left-off-ballot-37669373

Florida Election Officials: Trump's Name Not Left off Ballot

Florida election officials said Tuesday that Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's name was not left off ballots in a town in South Florida, despite a small number of voter complaints.

Florida is a closed-primary state, which means only registered Republicans would get a ballot listing Trump and the other GOP candidates.

Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher said that independent voters can't vote in the primary. Bucher said Tuesday that some residents in Jupiter, Florida who were voting in municipal elections complained when they didn't see Trump's name on the ballot. Bucher said none of the other presidential candidates were listed on those ballots either.

"A lot of complaints from people saying my name is not on the ballot in various places in Florida," Trump wrote on Twitter Tuesday. "Hope this is false."

 

[Culombo]

^yeah I've read that since .. just going by what others were reporting .. but from what I'm hearing it was just a case of misunderstanding of the closed primary process .. hopefully

 

[PainIsLIfe]

haha. That sample ballot didn't have Rubio's name on it either. The fix is on I tell ya. lol


I can't believe that these are the people we let vote.

 

[Arkain2K]

Kasich wins Ohio, Trump wins Florida, Rubio drops out

Washington (CNN)Ohio Gov. John Kasich has won the GOP presidential primary in his home state, according to a CNN projection, his first victory of the campaign.

The win represents a speedbump for Republican front-runner Donald Trump by depriving the billionaire of 66 crucial delegates that would have made it easier to reach the magic number of 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination. It may also give the Republican establishment a final chance of uniting behind a candidate who could challenge Trump in the event of a contested convention.

"We are all very, very happy," Kasich told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in a telephone interview.

Trump won the other big prize of the night: the Florida primary. That resounding win helped force Marco Rubio out of the race after failing to unite the Republican establishment against Trump.

"America is in the middle of a real political storm, a real tsunami and we should have seen this coming," Rubio said in Miami on Tuesday night in a speech that served as a thinly-veiled rebuke of Trump's campaign tactics. "While we are on the right side," he said, "this year, we will not be on the winning side."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/15/polit...inois-florida-primaries-highlights/index.html

 

[Gandhi]

Nice to see kaisich win but it's his home state, it's not as of kaisich somehow has become viable. It is still trump or a contested convention with all hell breaking lose.