Marco Rubio's campaign is preparing for a contested Republican Convention as one option to take the GOP nomination away from Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, his campaign manager told top donors at a closed-door meeting in Manhattan Wednesday night.
As Rubio scrambles for support ahead of Super Tuesday, Terry Sullivan, Rubio's top adviser, used a Power Point presentation and took questions from attendees to lay out the two courses that Rubio's quest for the GOP nomination could take in the coming months, two people present told CNN, speaking anonymously to share details from a private meeting.
The first showed the number of states and delegates Rubio would need to clinch the nomination outright before July's convention.
The second was the scenario in which none of the candidates gain the simple majority delegates needed to clinch the nomination before the convention, unleashing a messy and potentially unpredictable battle where multiple candidates are vying for the title.
Rubio spokesman Alex Conant declined to comment. Sullivan did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
There were close to some 200 people present at the midtown Manhattan meeting -- and among them were former Jeb Bush supporters, the people present said.
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Hope it doesn't come to contested convention. We want someone to clearly win.
February 25, 2016, 05:24 PM
mbinky
^^^^ And that GOPe, is how you piss away the election.
February 25, 2016, 05:27 PM
Czechvar
Ben Shapiro:
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With Donald Trump’s victory in the Nevada caucuses, and even as betting markets make him the overwhelming favorite to win the nomination outright, the campaigns of Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) enter deeper into Delusionland.
The Cruz campaign seems to be working under the delusion that if they beat Rubio in the SEC primaries, Rubio will drop out. That’s insane. Rubio isn’t going anywhere. He’s picking up establishment endorsements at a rapid clip, Jeb! Bush’s entire fundraising infrastructure has shifted over to him, and he believes that if he can carry through to the late primaries, he’ll outlast everyone else and then beat Trump one-on-one in enough states to either win outright or take his candidacy to a brokered convention. Cruz is also relying on a big win in Texas, but the numbers there suggest he has no shot of winning the 50 percent necessary in order to turn Texas into a winner-take-all state; the most optimistic poll shows him at 37 percent to Trump’s 29 percent, and the latest poll from Emerson shows Cruz at 29, Trump at 28, and Rubio at 25.
Meanwhile, Rubio thinks that Cruz will drop out after the SEC primaries; he’ll have had his shot, and he’ll have come up short. That’s nonsense, too. Cruz has a ton of cash in the bank, a heavy base of support in states like California, and may have the only shot at winning eight states outside of Trump – a prerequisite for nomination eligibility. That means the only shot for Rubio to win would be for Cruz to drop out and endorse him; even that might not help Rubio, since Cruz supporters could shift to Trump. At the same time, Rubio’s increasingly nasty attacks on Cruz mean that Cruz won’t personally bend to Rubio.
Rubio himself sounds like he doesn’t need Cruz’s support; he said today that a Rubio-Cruz dream ticket, or the reverse, “never happens, and it isn’t going to happen now.” He’s wooing establishment types, which won’t help him much in a three-way race. Today, the campaign announced, in silly fashion, that Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn would be endorsing Rubio – just in time to miss the Nevada caucuses entirely. Well done, Team Rubio. And Rubio himself said today, “You don’t win the nomination by how many states you win.”
Originally posted by mbinky: Nice . Could The Donald pick his son as VP LOl
Well, "If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?"
February 25, 2016, 05:38 PM
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Yup. Mexico--along with a few other despicable leaders in the world--is scared shitless of a President Trump, a fact in which I find lovely.
Do you think they will leave the country and head south...maybe Brazil??? Looks like he was shaking in his boots.
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Originally posted by sdy: Earlier this year, Mexico’s central bank released data indicating Mexicans abroad sent home $23.6 billion in 2014, almost all of it from the United States
Originally posted by oddball: Here's a great little video of Donald Jr. stumping for his dad in NV on Monday. Well spoken smart guy. Lots of talk on the 2A and guns after the 20 minute mark. Even gets into the .22LR shortage .
That's an impressive video. I feel like his son speaks in more specifics than his father does, though.
I have serious reservations about Trump himself, but this kind of evidence lessens them some.
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Chuck Norris put the laughter in "manslaughter"
Educating the youth of America, one declension at a time.
February 25, 2016, 08:03 PM
Himiko
By their fruits shall ye know them.
February 25, 2016, 08:21 PM
oddball
Seems Ross Douthat, a Republican Establishment columnist for the New York Times, yesterday tweeted (since deleted) “Good news guys I’ve figured out how the Trump campaign ends” with a link to a youtube video showing a fictional presidential candidate in an attempted assassination plot.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
February 25, 2016, 08:33 PM
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Another reason to vote for TRUMP!
Al Sharpton might 'get out of here' if Trump wins
By Anna Giaritelli (@anna_giaritelli) • 2/25/16 6:41 PM
Rev. Al Sharpton told attendees at a Center for American Progress Action Fund event Thursday he would flee the country if Donald Trump won the election, in order to avoid being deported by Trump.
Sharpton, a Democrat, had positive feedback for many of the Republican presidential candidates until he got to Trump.
"If Donald Trump is the nominee, I'm open to support anyone [else], while I'm also reserving my ticket to get out of here if he wins, only because he'd probably have me deported anyway," Sharpton told attendees, who responded in laughter.
Sharpton, who has participated in various national protests condemning police brutality, did not explain why he thinks Trump would deport him, though both New Yorkers have publicly shared their differences of opinion on various issues.
The Democrat is expected to endorse Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders for the party's nomination and has spoken with both about their views on issues that relate especially to black voters.
If, in addition to crushing Jeb's chances, Trump gets Sharpton to leave the courtry we ought to Knight the man or some such.
(not really, but how great would that be... Sharpton deporting himself...)
February 25, 2016, 09:43 PM
entropy
...to a country that doesnt have extradition for tax offenses.
Dont forget that part of the statement there Al...
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February 26, 2016, 08:13 AM
justjoe
Watch Ted Cruz virtually "endorse" Marco Rubios in this interview with Jake Tapper. (around the 4 minute mark) I started out regarding Cruz as my first choice, ideally, and have slowly lost more and more respect for him. I have just about zero now.
"You get much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone."
February 26, 2016, 08:54 AM
stickman428
What the fuck are you talking about Joe?
Rubio did have a VERY good night. Cruz has made similar positive comments about Trump and did so even in the video you posted.
Think critically and less emotionally. Cruz and Rubio have no chance of defeating Trump alone. You are surprised they appear to be cozying up to each other to try and chip away support from Trump?
Did you lose any respect for Trump when he changed his tone 100% on Cruz? Or is it a one way street to Trumpville?
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The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance
February 26, 2016, 08:59 AM
sdy
Trump should use his negotiating skills and pull off this combo to run against Clinton:
President Trump VP Rubio
SC nominee Cruz
February 26, 2016, 09:54 AM
Ackks
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Originally posted by justjoe: Watch Ted Cruz virtually "endorse" Marco Rubios in this interview with Jake Tapper. (around the 4 minute mark) I started out regarding Cruz as my first choice, ideally, and have slowly lost more and more respect for him. I have just about zero now.
A New York professor whose formula has proven accurate in every presidential election but one since 1912 says Donald Trump has a 97.6 percent chance — or better — of taking the White House if he’s the Republican nominee.
Political-science Professor Helmut Norpoth, of Stony Brook University on Long Island, created a statistical model for presidential elections using candidates’ primary results and other data to predict the victors, and he’s making Trump an all-but-sure thing this year.
The prediction wizard told university alumni gathered in Manhattan Monday night that Trump has a 97 percent chance of beating Hillary Clinton and a 99 percent chance of stomping Bernie Sanders, according to the school’s newspaper, The Statesman.
“The bottom line is that the primary model, using also the cyclical movement, makes it almost certain that Donald Trump will be the next president if he’s a nominee of the [Republican] party,” Norpoth said at the SUNY Global Center in Midtown.
The professor’s formula measures each candidates’ performance in primaries and caucuses to gauge party unity and voter excitement.
One major assumption is that a party that has held the Oval Office for two consecutive terms is less likely to win another term. Norpoth applied his model, which he created in 1996, to every presidential election going back to 1912, and it worked for every one — with the exception of 1960, when John F. Kennedy narrowly defeated Richard Nixon.
“When I started out with this kind of display a few months ago, I thought it was sort of a joke,” Norpoth said of his 2016 results.
“Well, I’ll tell you right now, it ain’t a joke anymore.
“You think, ‘This is crazy. How can anything come up with something like that?’ ” Norpoth told the audience.
“But that’s exactly the kind of equation I used to predict Bill Clinton winning in ’96, that I used to predict that George Bush would win in 2004, and, as you remember four years ago, that Obama would win in 2012,” he said.
The probability of a Trump win is “almost ‘take it to the bank,’ ” he said.
. Could The Donald pick his son as VP LOl
