Tennessee GOP having sudden delegate fight.

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Last night some of us were ‘treated,’ if that is the right word, to a sudden and hysterical (in the ‘kind of shrill’ sense) email from the Tennessee Trump campaign shouting about how the TN GOP was planning to STEAL THEIR DELEGATES at a meeting today. To speak dispassionately on the subject: at issue here is the slate of 14 at-large delegates that will be picked today.  The Trump campaign is claiming that they had an existing understanding that seven of their delegates would be picked; the state GOP is saying that there wasn’t any sort of deal, and there won’t be one now, given that a person on the Trump campaign in Tennessee allegedly ‘spoke dismissively‘ of both the process and a female member of the TN GOP.  The Tennessee Trump campaign called for a bunch of people to show up at the executive committee meeting today; by all accounts, they’re going to have to sit through at least two hours of various committee reports first, which is kind of funny right there.

Is any of this important? Yes, actually. – Or it’s at least relevant.  As of right now, the TN Trump campaign is watching as the TN GOP is removing the number of Trump partisans in the at-large delegates shrink from allegedly seven out of fourteen to allegedly four out of fourteen.  And, reading between the lines, it’s apparently because somebody in the TN Trump campaign threw his (almost certainly a ‘his’) weight around and said something rude enough to give the TN GOP an excuse to stand on its prerogatives.  Complicating matters for the TN Trump campaign is that all Tennessee delegates are bound to the candidates for two votes at the convention, not one: strictly speaking, the delegates picked and assigned today are more bound to the candidates than the average.

Which suggests that more and more people are assuming that the Republican convention will be contested. Including people on the Trump campaign. Especially people on the Trump campaign, given that they’re right now fighting over three delegates in Tennessee.  Gonna be interesting to see what the final score there is going to be…

Moe Lane

PS: Actually, the moral of the story maybe should be Play nice, even when you don’t think that you have to. And Know the rules. But never mind me.

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Does this shock anybody? Rumpsters keeping it classy.

[Free Vulcan]

Cruz just needs to take a leg busting, take-no-prisoners style in getting all the delegates he can out of the process.

[Frank Cannon]

Does this shock anybody? Rumpsters keeping it classy.

I am kinda shocked that Trump has no one on his campaign informing him that even though you may have won the Primary, the delegate wrangling doesn't end. Cruz has been one of the most organized and disciplined candidates in staying active in states to pick up every last available delegate. At the end of the Primary season, this is going to pay off big for Cruz and his efforts.

[ABX]

It isn't a 'fight'; Trump failed to follow through for his voters in Tennessee, Louisiana, and other states and leave a ground game in each precinct to ensure his voters had representation at the precinct level to choose delegates for him. Breaking promises right after getting the votes. That has to be a new record. Most candidates at least keep the promise to actually be a candidate and complete the responsibility of that.

It is like winning a bid to construct a building and not show up on ground breaking day.

[Bill Cipher]

Does this shock anybody? Rumpsters keeping it classy.

Not in the least.

[Free Vulcan]

Does this shock anybody? Rumpsters keeping it classy.

Not any more. Trump and his campaign think they are entitled to win this. They think wrong.

It's time to stop screwing around with him and the tough guy act. Time to just go in swinging and stomping and showing him what real hard nose politics his. Hope the Cruz team keeps up the hard work and take-no-prisoners attitude.