tinydancer
Diamond Member
Whoopsies! Should read softening.
Really interesting piece on the delegates that the Cruz team has been romancing. I'm wondering in the days and weeks ahead with Trump continuing to win so big if these delegates are getting a tad nervous about going into a contested convention and supporting Cruz who is losing all the primaries.
The delegates would be forever branded as turncoats against the people of their state for handing the Presidential candidacy to clearly a mega loser who has no possibility of winning the general.
"Even as Donald J. Trump trounced him from New Hampshire to Florida to Arizona, Senator Ted Cruz could reassure himself with one crucial advantage: He was beating Mr. Trump in the obscure, internecine delegate fights that could end up deciding the Republican nomination for president.
“This is how elections are won in America,” Mr. Cruz gloated after walking away with the most delegates in Wyoming.
But it turns out that delegates — like ordinary voters — are susceptible to shifts in public opinion. And as the gravitational pull of Mr. Trump’s recent primary landslides draws more Republicans toward him, Mr. Cruz’s support among the party’s 2,472 convention delegates is softening, threatening his hopes of preventing Mr. Trump’s nomination by overtaking him in a floor fight.
With each delegate Mr. Trump claims, he gets closer to the 1,273 he needs to clinch the nomination outright, and Mr. Cruz’s chances of stopping him — even if he pulls out a victory in Tuesday’s Indiana primary — shrink."
More at link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/us/politics/ted-cruz-delegate-count.html?_r=1
Really interesting piece on the delegates that the Cruz team has been romancing. I'm wondering in the days and weeks ahead with Trump continuing to win so big if these delegates are getting a tad nervous about going into a contested convention and supporting Cruz who is losing all the primaries.
The delegates would be forever branded as turncoats against the people of their state for handing the Presidential candidacy to clearly a mega loser who has no possibility of winning the general.
"Even as Donald J. Trump trounced him from New Hampshire to Florida to Arizona, Senator Ted Cruz could reassure himself with one crucial advantage: He was beating Mr. Trump in the obscure, internecine delegate fights that could end up deciding the Republican nomination for president.
“This is how elections are won in America,” Mr. Cruz gloated after walking away with the most delegates in Wyoming.
But it turns out that delegates — like ordinary voters — are susceptible to shifts in public opinion. And as the gravitational pull of Mr. Trump’s recent primary landslides draws more Republicans toward him, Mr. Cruz’s support among the party’s 2,472 convention delegates is softening, threatening his hopes of preventing Mr. Trump’s nomination by overtaking him in a floor fight.
With each delegate Mr. Trump claims, he gets closer to the 1,273 he needs to clinch the nomination outright, and Mr. Cruz’s chances of stopping him — even if he pulls out a victory in Tuesday’s Indiana primary — shrink."
More at link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/us/politics/ted-cruz-delegate-count.html?_r=1
