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    Post More Than 100 Delegates Are Planning To Do Something To Trump If He Does't do This

    Revealed: More Than 100 Delegates Are Planning To Do Something BIG To Trump If He Doesn’t Do This…

    "...that’s a big concern for everybody."


    Jack Davis April 2, 2016 at 12:15pm

    In a snapshot of political attitudes and loyalties that can change with the ebb and flow of the fortunes of the candidates, a recent survey of Republican insiders shows that Donald Trump could be deserted by more than 100 convention delegates once the first round of balloting is over and they can make their own choices.

    Amid what the New York Times and Los Angeles Times each called a “rough week” for Trump, and with polls showing rival Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, leading the race in Wisconsin, a story by the website Politco says that “already more than a hundred delegates are poised to break with him on a second ballot.”

    The story also noted that only one of the 168 Republican National Committee members publicly supports Trump, with only a few others supporting him privately.

    “As far as the stealing of the Trump nomination, that’s a big concern for everybody,” said Diana Orrock, an RNC committeewoman from Nevada who openly supports Trump.

    If Cruz wins Wisconsin’s contest Tuesday, media outlets estimate Trump needs to win between 57 and 60 percent of the remaining delegates to have a first-ballot victory, a far higher figure than his efforts to date.

    As the chance grows that there will be no clear winner by the time of the GOP convention in Cleveland, Republican officials are accelerating plans to deal with a contested convention.

    Reince Priebus, the GOP chairman, this past week announced the creation of a website to explain the process of a contested convention.

    “ConventionFacts.gop is a tool for voters to learn about convention delegates, rules, and how the overall process works in a simple, easy to understand format,” he said. “Conventions are democracy in action and our Party’s gathering in Cleveland will be an exciting, transparent, and fair process.”

    The website fivethirtyeight noted that the way states select delegates works against Trump.

    “Trump’s delegate problems stem from two major issues,” writes Nate Silver. “One is his lack of organization: Trump just recently hired a strategist to oversee his delegate-selection efforts; Cruz has been working on the process for months. The other is his lack of support from ‘party elites.’ The people who attend state caucuses and conventions are mostly dyed-in-the-wool Republican regulars and insiders, a group that is vigorously opposed to Trump. Furthermore, some delegate slots are automatically given to party leaders and elected officials, another group that strongly opposes Trump, as evident in his lack of endorsements among them.”

    h/t: Politico

    Revealed: More Than 100 Delegates Are Planning To Do Something BIG To Trump If He Doesn't Do This...

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    Top Republicans Predict Speaker Ryan Will Be GOP Pick

    Speaker Paul Ryan (Photo by Drew Angerer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
    By Cathy Burke Monday, 04 Apr 2016

    Top Republicans are reportedly sticking to predictions that House Speaker Paul Ryan will wind up as the party's presidential pick at the Cleveland nominating convention.

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    According to Politico, one unnamed source with a "enviable prediction record" this election cycle gives the Wisconsin lawmaker a 54 percent chance of becoming the party's standard bearer.

    The GOP source argues he came to the figure after predicting a 60 percent chance of a convention deadlock in July — and a 90 percent chance that delegates then turn to Ryan.

    "He's the most conservative, least establishment member of the establishment," the Republican source tells Politico. "That's what you need to be."

    And Monday afternoon, the Huffington Post revealed that billionaire political activist Charles Koch is also pushing a Ryan candidacy.

    Koch has told friends if Donald Trump comes up at least 100 delegate votes short of the 1,237 minimum to secure the nomination, Ryan would be a solid choice.

    A source told the Post the Koch brothers support the agenda Ryan is chasing as House speaker, a position he took over last October after John Boehner retired.

    The general counsel for Koch Industries, however, told the Post the report was "completely false."

    "Let me be clear, we never have advocated for a specific candidate in a presidential primary, and we have no plans to do so now," Mark Holden said.

    Politico reports Ryan is "more calculating and ambitious than he lets on," and "is running the same playbook he did to become speaker: saying he doesn't want it, that it won't happen."

    An unnamed Ryan friend tells Politico Ryan's speech last month about raising the tone and tenor of politics hinted as much.

    "That was somebody who was laying out the speech that, in most cases, you'd give six months before you announce you're going to run — when you're going around the country, raising money for your leadership PAC," the source tells Politico.

    Still, Ryan pushed back hard on the prospect Monday.

    "People put my name in this thing, I said, 'Get my name out of that,'" he tells Hugh Hewitt on his radio program Monday, Politico reports.

    "This is — if you want to be president, you should go run for president. And that is the way I see it."

    Meanwhile, Fox News political commentator Juan Williams declares "Ryan and [Donald] Trump are on a collision course."

    In a commentary for The Hill Monday, Williams argues if contender Sen. Ted Cruz can beat the front-runner in Wisconsin on Tuesday, odds "go way up" that Trump cannot win the 1,237 delegates needed to claim the Republican nomination, leading to an open convention that would choose the nominee.

    And the man who will preside over negotiations at an open convention is Ryan's friend and fellow Wisconsinite, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, Williams writes.

    "The real game here is a long-term effort to get the nomination into the hands of a mainstream Republican," Williams writes. "Party elders want someone who will not damage the party's candidates running for the Senate and the House, as well as for state offices."

    "But first they have to keep Trump from winning the nomination outright before the convention," he adds. "Once that is done, the backrooms of the Cleveland convention will be a playground for the anti-Trump forces."


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    Well, that's a shame but it exposes what the party elites and elected officials think about Trump's policies, you know the same policies that the voters support. Voters need to be aware that their party elites and elected officials hate Trump because he wants to secure our borders and fix our bad trade deals. Perhaps voters need to take a second look at their "elected officials" and "party elites" who are selling out our country and citizens on the state and local level just like their federal counterparts in DC.
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