These two certainly do not
believe in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment. Republicans attacking and
undermining other Republicans seems to be the norm now days for the GOP. A house
divided cannot stand the best approach is to untie and elect a Republican to
the White House.
Via Fox News:
The presidential
campaigns of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich announced late
Sunday that they were coordinating their efforts in three upcoming primary
states in an extraordinary attempt to prevent Republican front-runner Donald
Trump from clinching the GOP nomination before this summer’s convention.
In a pair of
simultaneously released statements, the campaigns announced that Kasich would
pull out of Indiana to give Cruz “a clear path” ahead of that state’s winner-take-all
primary May 3, while the Cruz campaign will “clear the path” for Kasich in
Oregon, which votes May 17, and New Mexico, which votes June 7.
“Having Donald
Trump at the top of the ticket in November would be a sure disaster for
Republicans,” Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, said. “To ensure that we
nominate a Republican who can unify the Republican Party and win in November,
our campaign will focus its time and resources in Indiana and in turn clear the
path for Gov. Kasich to compete in Oregon and New Mexico, and we would hope
that allies of both campaigns would follow our lead.”
The arrangement
marks a sharp reversal for Cruz’s team, which aggressively opposed the idea of
a coordinated anti-Trump effort as recently as late last week. Yet it underscores
a bleak reality for the billionaire businessman’s Republican foes: Time is
running out to stop him.
Trump responded
on Twitter shortly before midnight Monday.
Wow, just announced that Lyin’ Ted and Kasich are going
to collude in order to keep me from getting the Republican nomination.
DESPERATION!
— Donald J.
Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 25,
2016
A statement from
the Trump campaign called the move “a horrible act of desperation from two
campaigns who have horribly failed.”
“Our goal is to
have an open convention in Cleveland,” Weaver added, “where we are confident a
candidate capable of uniting the party and winning in November will emerge as
the nominee.”
The announcement
came less than 48 hours before voting begins across five Northeastern states
where the New York billionaire is poised to add to his already overwhelming
delegate lead. Trump campaigned Sunday in Maryland, which will vote on Tuesday
along with Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Trump needs
1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination. If he falls short, the
national Republican gathering in July will evolve into a rare contested
convention.
“Keeping Trump
from winning a plurality in Indiana is critical to keeping him under 1,237
bound delegates before Cleveland,” Kasich’s campaign said Sunday. “We are very
comfortable with our delegate position in Indiana already, and given the
current dynamics of the primary there, we will shift our campaign’s resources
west and give the Cruz campaign a clear path in Indiana.”
Indiana will
award 57 delegates to the winner of its primary. Oregon and New Mexico have 28
and 24 proportionately awarded delegates at stake, respectively.
We had just
shared yesterday the latest Indiana poll, which suggested Cruz had a good shot
at that state — if only Kasich would pull out. And so he does, though not quite
in the way we expected.
This will, no
doubt, upset Trump supporters as it did the candidate himself.
How about you
Cruz supporters? (Not sure how many Kasich supporters we’ve got following.)
www.dictionary.com/browse/machiavellian
being or acting in
accordance with the principles of government analyzed in Machiavelli's The Prince, in which political
expediency is placed above morality and the use of craft and deceit to maintain
the authority.
