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NBC Reporter: Cruz to Win Half Of Pennsylvania's Delegates, "Even If He Comes In Distant Third"
2016-04-20
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] NBC's Hallie Jackson reports Cruz has changed his focus to Pennsylvania and making a play for the state's unbound delegates. Jackson, the network's Cruz correspondent, said even if Cruz has a third place finish in Pennsylvania's Republican primary, he'll win more than half the delegates.

"It's very telling that's Ted Cruz tonight is not in Brooklyn or Manhattan or any of the boroughs or state. He's in Pennsylvania," reported Jackson.

"He'll be in Philly for his watch party tonight," Jackson said. "That's indicative of where he and his campaign see this race going, to Pennsylvania, where they are looking to make a play for these unbound delegates. Even if they come in a distant third, a top campaign aide tells me, they will still, they believe, pick up more than half the delegates there."

"They're looking at more than 30," Jackson said.

Pennsylvania allots 71 delegates in the Republican primary; 54 of which are unbound.
Posted by:Fred

#8  Well, as long as only GOPe apparatchiks are allowed to vote in the general, this strategy should work great for Cruz in November.
Posted by: charger   2016-04-20 11:59  

#7  By the way, is it me or does anyone else hate when Cruz uses "we" all the time. I know he's are trying to include his campaign and voters and all that but it sounds like the Royal "we" and I don't like the sound of it.

Trump doesn't do that. He uses I. Has this always been a thing and I'm just now noticing it? Or is Cruz unique in the "we" business?
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-04-20 11:08  

#6  Cruz was not in New York because he knew Trump was gonna get New York no matter how much time and money Cruz spent. Trump did the same thing with a number of states. The test of character is how they each responded to the electoral beating this strategy created. Trump bitched and moaned like a baby and Cruz shrugged and said we were never going to win NY.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-04-20 11:05  

#5  Yep, easier to buy 54 people than 54,000 people.

BTW, didn't we invade Iraq to give people meaningful votes? Do as I say, not as I do.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-04-20 10:38  

#4  Super Delegates are in addition to the regular ones the states are allocated. The Dems added those. GOP has not. PA decided a while back to go with "unbound" for pretty much the same reason Colorado went with a caucus based system: it forces candidates to work grass roots instead of buying the election with TV ads.
Posted by: Pholuger Whomonter7187   2016-04-20 09:30  

#3  the state's unbound delegates

Someone posted here that the Trunks didn't have 'super delegates'. I guess that's not what they call them at least.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-04-20 09:12  

#2  Or perhaps he knew it was an exercise in futility.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-04-20 08:20  

#1  All rules have been known and in writing since last year. Trump's just been lazy and unorganized at the State level
Posted by: Frank G   2016-04-20 08:02  

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