Saturday, April 30, 2016

Establishment Plot to Steal Donald Trump Delegates Now On-Going in Virginia

The Virginia Republican convention is on-going this weekend in  Harrisonburg, Virginia to assign delegates to the Republican National Convention that will be held this summer in Cleveland, Ohio from July 18 to July 21.

Donald Trump came in first in the Virginia primary. However, I am told that a plot led by  Ken Cuccinelli,  who served as attorney general of Virginia from 2010 until 2014, is underway that is attempting to send only Ted Cruz supporting delegates to Cleveland.

Trump came in first in the Virginia primary with 34.7% of the vote. Marco Rubio came in second with 31.9% of the vote and Cruz came in  a distant  third with 16.9%.

This is a developing story. Return to this post for further updates.

UPDATE 1

The fix is in.

Cuccinelli delegate play confirmed by reporter Jeff Shapiro, Richmond Times Dispatch.

UPDATE 2

Observer in Virginia: "Trump's ground game is terrible. His people couldn't organize a one car parade."

UPDATE 3

Trump operative Mark Lloyd confirms the Cuccinelli play.


8 comments:

  1. I'm not sure "steal" is the right word to describe what is going on.

    This is the way the delegate selection process is set up. Those who understand it, know the importance of getting their people selected as delegates.

    I learned about the delegate selection process during Ron Paul's 2008 campaign. And it's when I finally understood that all politics is local.

    Ron Paul knew the importance of getting delegates committed to him. His people turned out at the county and state conventions and his people won delegate slots. I've seen estimates that as many as 20% of Romney's delegates were committed Ron Paul supporters. Was Ron Paul stealing Romney delegates?

    If Ron Paul were running and collecting delegates, you'd be crowing about his brilliant campaign strategy.

    Trump is late to the "game". He thought he could run a bombastic campaign from New York and a television camera without investing in a ground game.

    Romney did something similar. His campaign was centralized in Boston. He junked the tried and well tested method of keeping track of voter turn out at the precinct level. Instead, he invested heavily in his smart phone application, ORCA, without testing it extensively. He rolled it out at 6am the morning of the election and it was beached by 4pm. He could not turn people out to vote. He had no way of knowing who had voted and who had not. His campaign was flying blind.

    Trump is media savvy. But he's ignorant that all politics is local. If he cannot get his voters to the polls, he loses . . . which may not be a bad thing. As terrible as the Democrats are, they understand the fundamentals of local power and elections.

    The Cruz campaign understands the fundamentals of the delegate selection process. Unlike Trump, he read the rules. I don't think that is stealing.

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    1. Former congressman John Dingell said you let me write procedure and all that you write substance and I'll screw you every time. The Slate presented by the nominations committee at the Virginia State Convention is designed procedurally to control the outcome substantively. Being involved or not involved in the process it wouldn't matter because the committee made its decision we don't know what was in behind the decision. The Slate as presented by the nominations Committee of Thirteen delegates offered 11 of them are Cruise people to our trunk people. The Trump people arguing that the Slate should represent proportionality to the primary results. They are working to vote it down. The cruise people led by Ken cuccinelli are threatening to prevent a new slate after this one if it is voted down that is 100% Cruise. Yes all politics is local but centralized control can go a long way to defeat local input.

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    2. Former congressman John Dingell said you let me write procedure and all that you write substance and I'll screw you every time. The Slate presented by the nominations committee at the Virginia State Convention is designed procedurally to control the outcome substantively. Being involved or not involved in the process it wouldn't matter because the committee made its decision we don't know what was in behind the decision. The Slate as presented by the nominations Committee of Thirteen delegates offered 11 of them are Cruise people to our trunk people. The Trump people arguing that the Slate should represent proportionality to the primary results. They are working to vote it down. The cruise people led by Ken cuccinelli are threatening to prevent a new slate after this one if it is voted down that is 100% Cruise. Yes all politics is local but centralized control can go a long way to defeat local input.

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    3. Voice to Text creates too many typos.

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    4. Yeah, just like taxation isn't stealing because they are according to the "rules."

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    5. So was Ron Paul stealing Romney delegates when his people showed up and filled delegate slots?

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  2. According to wikipedia Cynthia Dunbar was instrumental in the intentional removal of any mention of Thomas Jefferson from school textbooks.

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  3. Ken Cuccinelli, who once presented himself as a libertarian, making full use of morally corrupt "rules" in order to help out the political establishment.

    Another fraud exposed.

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