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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 07:07 AM Mar 2016

Ted "The Lip" Cruz is salivating over the prospect of a brokered convention...

https://www.facebook.com/SeanHannity/posts/10156706444735389

"If Donald is our nominee, in all likelihood, Hillary wins, we lose the Supreme Court for a generation, the Bill of Rights is lost, we're buried in debt, and jihadists rise across the globe," Ted Cruz said. Do you agree?

Cruz: 'Establishment in a Fevered Frenzy to Get Brokered Convention'
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Ted "The Lip" Cruz is salivating over the prospect of a brokered convention... (Original Post) Miles Archer Mar 2016 OP
Pot calling kettle black Albertoo Mar 2016 #1
Convention would never choose Cruz who is apparently rather disliked by his collegues. n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2016 #2
Cruz has 0 chance. TheCowsCameHome Mar 2016 #3
There is not likely to be a brokered convention unless Jarqui Mar 2016 #4
Why? FreeJoe Mar 2016 #5
All of that's true, but... Miles Archer Mar 2016 #6
 

Albertoo

(2,016 posts)
1. Pot calling kettle black
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 07:12 AM
Mar 2016

Neither Trump nor Cruz are presidential material

(and Cruz is even more dangerous than Trump)

Jarqui

(10,110 posts)
4. There is not likely to be a brokered convention unless
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 09:12 AM
Mar 2016

they take away delegates Trump wins in primary elections.

He's probably going to have more than 2/3rds of the delegates he needs before the end of March and should handily pick up the remaining 1/3 in the balance of the contests (ie New Jersey, 7th of June, 51 delegates in winner-take-all and he's 18 pts ahead, Florida on Mar 15th, 99 delegates in winner-take-all, 18 pts ahead). A bunch of them are Winner-Take-All and he's way ahead.

Heavy odds are: There will be no brokered convention. Trump is the GOP nominee.

If the GOP are having second thoughts, they're too late. Most of the ballot deadlines for the primary have passed.

About all they can do now is convince America he's a big dick with a small dick.

FreeJoe

(1,039 posts)
5. Why?
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 09:17 AM
Mar 2016

Even if he came in second to Trump, they would never give it to him in a brokered convention. His own party loathes him. A brokered convention would probably go to whoever won a plurality of the delegates. If it didn't it would almost certainly go to someone like Rubio, Kasich, or someone behind door number 3. Cruz hardly seems like a likely fallback option.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
6. All of that's true, but...
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 10:48 AM
Mar 2016

...what's been coming out is "We hate him, but we can't let Trump get it, and we can't let Hillary win, so let's pretend we like him enough so we can win."

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