Trump accuses Cruz of buying delegates in Colorado
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz
Donald Trump does not like what happened in Colorado:
April 11, 2016
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s concerns about how delegates are allotted turned into a roar on Monday as he accused the campaign of rival Ted Cruz of buying votes after his weekend win in Colorado.
The New York billionaire amassed a delegate lead by winning many state contests but Cruz has proven tenacious in pursuit of every last delegate available by other means in hopes of winning the nomination at a brokered Republican convention in July.
Cruz’s campaign has worked effectively in states where the delegate allocation process is more complex, such as Colorado, where the U.S. senator from Texas picked up 34 delegates on Saturday at the state Republican convention.
“The people out there are going crazy, in the Denver area and Colorado itself,” Trump said on Fox News. “They’re going absolutely crazy because they weren’t given a vote. This was given by politicians – it’s a crooked deal.” …
Trump on Monday also accused Cruz of trying to steal delegates in South Carolina, which Trump won. Cruz came in third in that state in February but won three delegates Saturday at congressional district meetings, according to local media.
“Now they’re trying to pick off those delegates one by one,” Trump said on Fox News. “That’s not the way democracy is supposed to work. They offer them trips, they offer them all sorts of things and you’re allowed to do that. You can buy all these votes.
“What kind of a system is that? … It’s a rigged system.”
Trump’s new adviser on delegate matters, Paul Manafort, said on Sunday the campaign would protest what he called Cruz’s “Gestapo tactics, the scorched-earth tactics” on delegates.
A tweet from the Colorado Republican Party appeared to briefly verify Trump’s fears that state party officials favored Cruz. After Saturday’s results, the party tweeted, “We did it. #Never Trump,” the Denver Post reported.
The party then deleted the tweet, which it said was unauthorized, and said it was investigating. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN0X81HE
So, Donald Trump is objecting that Ted Cruz is essentially ‘playing politics’ and ‘buying votes.’ It is unusual that Donald Trump sees this as a problem as he has admitted to donating to Hillary Clinton in the past as he felt it was ‘good business.’ The financial corruption of USA politics is not new.
The sad reality is that compromise, pressure, ‘bribes,’ and ‘back-room’ deals have long been a part of politics. And the politicians in the USA are not above engaging in those types of activities.
As far as Ted Cruz goes, here is some of what Wikipedia is reporting as his political positions:
Political positions
Main article: Political positions of Ted CruzDomestic affairs
On abortion, Cruz is “strongly pro-life” and “would allow the procedure only when a pregnancy endangers the mother’s life.”[180][181]
Cruz opposes both same-sex marriage and civil unions.[182] He believes that marriage should be legally defined as only “between one man and one woman,”[183] but believes that the legality of same-sex marriage should be left to each state to decide.[184]
In 2015, Cruz voted in favor of the USA Freedom Act, which reauthorized the USA Patriot Act but reformed some of its provisions.[185][186]
Cruz is a proponent of school choice[187] and opposes the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[188] Cruz is a strong critic of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the ACA or “Obamacare”). He has sponsored legislation that would repeal the health care reform law and its amendments in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
Cruz is a gun-rights supporter.[189] Cruz adopted a “hard-line stance” on immigration issues during the 2014 border crisis[190] and is an opponent of comprehensive immigration reform.[48][190] Cruz advocates for an increase from 65,000 to 325,000 annually in skilled foreign workers entering the United States using H-1B visas.[191]
Cruz opposes the legalization of marijuana, but believes it should be decided at the state level.[192]
Cruz opposes net neutrality, arguing that the Internet economy has flourished in the United States simply because it has remained largely free from government regulation.[193]
Crime
Cruz has called for an end to “overcriminalization, harsh mandatory minimum sentences, and the demise of jury trials.”[194] He supports the death penalty. In his 2012 Senate campaign, Cruz frequently mentioned his role as counsel for the State of Texas in Medellín v. Texas, a 2008 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court found that Texas has the legal right to ignore an order from the International Court of Justice directing the U.S. to review the convictions and sentences of dozens of Mexican nationals on death row.[195] Cruz has referred to Medellín as the most important case of his tenure as Texas solicitor general.[195]
In an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt discussing the attack that killed three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Cruz said that “the simple and undeniable fact is the overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats”, and that the reason Democrats are soft on crime, is that convicted felons tend to vote Democratic.[196]
In August 2015, in the wake of the ambush death of a Texas police officer who was gunned down while filling up at a gas station, Cruz said that police are “feeling the assault from the President, from the top on down, as we see — whether it’s in Ferguson or Baltimore, the response from senior officials, the President or the Attorney General, is to vilify law enforcement. That’s wrong. It’s fundamentally wrong. It’s endangering all of our safety and security.”[197]
Economy
Cruz has been described by the Cato Institute‘s Center for Trade Policy Studies as a “free trader”[198] and as a “free-trade advocate” by the Wall Street Journal.[199]
In 2013, Cruz proposed the abolition of the IRS and the implementation of a flat tax “where the average American can fill out taxes on a postcard.”[200] Cruz is “adamantly opposed to a higher minimum wage.”[201]
Cruz wants to decrease the size of the government significantly. In addition to eliminating the IRS as described above, Cruz has promised to eliminate four other cabinet-level agencies. Cruz proposes to eliminate the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, Department of Commerce, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.[202]
Environment
Cruz is a supporter of TransCanada‘s Keystone XL Pipeline,[203] and along with every other Republican senator was a cosponsor of legislation in support of the pipeline.[204]
Cruz rejects the scientific consensus on climate change.[205][206] He has said that “the scientific evidence doesn’t support global warming.”[207] He has stated: “They call anyone who questions the science who even points to the satellite data – they call you a, quote, ‘denier.’ Denier is not the language of science. Denier is the language of religion. It is heretic. You are a blasphemer. It’s treated as a theology. But it’s about power and money. At the end of the day, it’s not complicated. This is liberal politicians who want government power.”[207] In March 2015, he said that some people are “global warming alarmists” and, citing satellite temperature measurements, said that there had been no significant warming in 18 years.[207][208][206]
Cruz voted against the Water Resources Development Act of 2013, that would have created the National Endowment for the Oceans and authorized more than $26 billion in projects to be built by the Army Corps of Engineers, at least $16 billion of which would have come from federal taxpayers.[209][210] Cruz voted against the bill because it neglected “to reduce a substantial backlog of projects, to the detriment of projects with national implications, such as the Sabine–Neches Waterway“.[211] Cruz stated that the Corps’ responsibilities were expanded without providing adequate measures for state participation.[211] Proponents of the bill argued that it would provide steady funding to support research and restoration projects, funded primarily by dedicating 12.5% of revenues from offshore energy development, including oil, gas, and renewable energy, through offshore lease sales and production based royalty payments, distributed through a competitive grant program.[212]
Foreign affairs
Cruz has been an adamant opponent of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a 2015 international nuclear agreement with Iran negotiated by the U.S. and other world powers, calling it “catastrophic” and “disastrous.”[213][214]
Cruz is a critic of the rapprochement between Cuba and the United States, saying on Fox News in December 2014 that the thaw in relations was a “manifestation of the failures of the Obama-Clinton-Kerry foreign policy” that “will be remembered as a tragic mistake.”[215]
In 2013, Cruz stated that America had no “dog in the fight” during the Syrian Civil War and stated that America’s armed forces should not serve as “al-Qaeda‘s air force”.[216] In 2014, Cruz criticized the Obama administration: “The president’s foreign policy team utterly missed the threat of ISIS, indeed, was working to arm Syrian rebels that were fighting side by side with ISIS”, calling ISIS “the face of evil”.[217] In a statement opposing US intervention for regime change in Syria, Cruz said, “If President Obama and Hillary Clinton and Sen. Rubio succeed in toppling (Syrian President Bashar) Assad, the result will be the radical Islamic terrorists will take over Syria, that Syria will be controlled by ISIS, and that is materially worse for U.S. national security interests.”[218]
Let me add that while the Republican establishment seems to be willing to support Ted Cruz to stop Donald Trump from getting the 1237 delegates needed to secure the party’s nomination for the US presidency, that same establishment does not like Ted Cruz.
They do not like Ted Cruz mainly because he has been unwilling to compromise certain of his positions and he has resisted a lot of ‘back-room’ pressure from the Republican party establishment. But perhaps because of some of what they have tried to do to him, he thinks he learned how ‘the game is played.’
That being said, Donald Trump’s basic complaint that voters do not not get heard completely has long been true. Because of what both Ted Cruz and the Republican establishment have done, Donald Trump may well leave the Republican party if he does not get the nomination in July.
Many believe that if he runs as an independent, that this will give the presidency to Hillary Clinton (presuming she is not indicted for her email or Benghazi matters).
National repentance and prayer is what the USA needs or it is biblically-doomed (cf. Habakkuk 2:6-8; Daniel 11:39).
The USA needs the Kingdom of God. No major party politician is calling for that.
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