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Politics : A Hard Look At Donald Trump -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (1714)	4/17/2016 6:11:41 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46947

I absolutely do, that's why I want to play by the rules. Whinin' Losin' Donny wants to be declared the winner without winning according to the rules. His parents spoiled him as a child.

To: longnshort who wrote (1714)

4/17/2016 6:17:18 PM

From: Brumar89

Respond to of 46947

Where's Trump? In Texas, nowhere to be found

This is the frontpage headline in today's Houston Chronicle.

No one answers the phone of Donald Trump's Texas campaign headquarters in Austin. Callers just get a busy signal, day and night. His original state director quit abruptly in January, and the deputy named to replace him, Houston operative Joshua Jones, has kept a low profile. ...... (At the) state convention in Dallas next month, where Ted Cruz supporters will be the overwhelming majority, meaning they will get to pick most, if not all, of the state's 155 delegates who are going to Cleveland.

In a contested national convention that goes past two ballots, Texas GOP rules allow Trump's 48 pledged delegates to switch their support. ....

[ IOW Trump gets the delegates he won in the primary for the first and second votes, but if it goes to three votes, they become what they ACTUALLY are - Cruz supporters. See the Cruz organization is cheating by organizing and getting loyalists elected while Trump is standing down. ]

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign in Texas .... has all but gone dark, adding to a sense of disarray as the billionaire shakes up his top leadership team in Texas.
.....
"Texas needs to get organized for Trump," said Elva Levendecker, a Trump supporter from Laredo who hopes to be a delegate at the national convention in Cleveland. "He needs to get with the program in Texas."

[ You want to feel sorry for the poor Trump supporters left on their own, not knowing what to do in the absence of a real campaign organization. ]

.... The same goes for the three delegates pledged to Marco Rubio, .... Assuming Rubio falls short of 20% in Round 1, they will be free agents in Round 2, likely adding to the 104 Cruz delegates won on primary day.

"It's evident someone is trying to steal the delegates from Trump," said Ferrell, an activist in the Texas Nationalist Movement, a group that advocates for secession from the U.S. ....

[ Great, some of his people are screwballs. Despite what liberals will tell you, there is NOT a serious secession movement in TX. ]

That math does not favor Leyendecker or Ferrell. Their Congressional district went to Cruz by 14 points. Even though Trump won nearly a third of the Republican vote,the districts three national GOP delegates probably will be Cruz supporters. That is because Leyendecker and Ferrell likely will be outvoted at their congressional district caucus meetings in Dallas to pick delegates for Cleveland.

..... Trump's only hope of electing Texas delegates loyal to him is to turn them out in large enough numbers at the state convention. There has been little sign of that.

[ Gee, that's what happens when you don't actually have a state campaign organization. ]

Leyendecker said she has had no contact with the Trump campaign recently, and Ferrell said his contacts mainly have been through occasional emails. Although the campaign claims to have coordinators in each congressional district and a stat staff of four, Ferrell and Leyendecker could not identify any Trump campaign organizers.

.... "I am not aware of a Trump ground operation ...." "There was no sign of any Trump or Kasich organization," .....

"I have reporters asking me all the time, 'Where are the Trump operators that are working in Texas?' I haven't seen one in the entire process,"

[ The Chronicle couldn't get anyone from the Trump TX OR national organization to comment for the story. ]