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Melania Trump was seen casting her vote on Tuesday, wearing sunglasses inside. Flanked by her security detail, the 45-year-old aspiring First Lady wore a sleek ensemble of white jeans, black t-shirt, and black blazer with stiletto heels to fill out the fateful ticket
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Donald Trump Jr filled out his ballot with his 18-month-old daughter Chloe near Trump Tower on Tuesday afternoon
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The Empire State building lit up red Tuesday after Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump won the New York primary.
New York State Primary Results!
http://dennismichaellynch.com/highlight-one/empire-state-building-lights-up-red-for-trump-victory/
If you were one of the thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that jumped on the bandwagon of trash talking Trump because of his "7/11" comment, you are officially less educated than those that knew what he was talking about, as well as those that kept their mouths shut.
For those thousands of you that are playing the role of "offended patriot" because of Trumps comment, here's a "fun fact": 711 was the first engine company that responded to the attacks on the World Trade Center. That's Engine 7, Ladder 1, Battalion 1, or Firehouse 711. How patriotic do you feel now? Better yet, how stupid do you feel now?
If you doubt me, here's the quote from Trump, word for word:
“I wrote this out, and it’s very close to my heart. Because I was down there and I watched our police and our firemen down at 7/11, down at the World Trade Center right after it came down. And I saw the greatest people I’ve ever seen in action.”
"DOWN at 7/11"??? Yea, definitely mistakenly referring to 9/11... Good job, guys...
Stop. Believing. Everything. The. Media. Feeds. You.
The Pennsylvanian Plan: How to secure the primary for Trump
Everyone should read this, but if you are short on time and not from Pennsylvania PLEASE share it!
This article contains CRUCIAL information for voters heading to the polls next week and sharing it alone will help Trump win.
Lyin’ Ted Cruz plans to steal Pennsylvania using one of his dirty tricks. It’s called a “loophole primary,” and its a nasty bit of business. This term might be familiar to you since Missouri and Illinois both incorporated the loophole concept into their primaries. Unfortunately, Pennsylvania is a bit different–and the difference matters. Basically it’s an over-complication of the standard primary system–in a typical primary delegates would either be awarded by a winner-take-all or proportional allocation. These delegates would then be “bound” to the candidate in question. That isn’t how Pennsylvania works–but I’ll explain that in just a moment.
First here is the breakdown on delegates in the Pennsylvania Primary that takes place next Tuesday:
So when Pennsylvanian voters head to the polls on the 26th, they won’t be given a simple standard ballot but a cumbersome list of delegate names. The names will not say whom they are supporting. The ballot will look like this:
This is the part that mattes most! Here is what you need to know!
Thankfully, one kind soul has gone through an excruciatingly exhaustive effort to detail each delegate and what is known about their stance–in a single document that can be found HERE, you will find all that you need to be informed about which delegates support Donald Trump.
Everyone should read this, but if you are short on time and not from Pennsylvania PLEASE share it!
This article contains CRUCIAL information for voters heading to the polls next week and sharing it alone will help Trump win.
Lyin’ Ted Cruz plans to steal Pennsylvania using one of his dirty tricks. It’s called a “loophole primary,” and its a nasty bit of business. This term might be familiar to you since Missouri and Illinois both incorporated the loophole concept into their primaries. Unfortunately, Pennsylvania is a bit different–and the difference matters. Basically it’s an over-complication of the standard primary system–in a typical primary delegates would either be awarded by a winner-take-all or proportional allocation. These delegates would then be “bound” to the candidate in question. That isn’t how Pennsylvania works–but I’ll explain that in just a moment.
First here is the breakdown on delegates in the Pennsylvania Primary that takes place next Tuesday:
- 3 delegates will be allocated t0 each of the 18 Congressional Districts for a total of 54 delegates
- 10 delegates will be awarded to the winner of the state’s popular vote
- 4 delegates are awarded as a “bonus” to the winner of the popular vote
- 3 RNC Party Officials will serve as delegates awarded to the winner of the popular vote
- I highly recommend reading The Green Papers for a more complete understanding of this process.
So when Pennsylvanian voters head to the polls on the 26th, they won’t be given a simple standard ballot but a cumbersome list of delegate names. The names will not say whom they are supporting. The ballot will look like this:
Congressional District 4
“Choose 3 Delegates”
[_] John Smith[_] Sally Poe[_] Joe Shmoe[_] Brett Mac[_] Jerry Jorge[_] Sal Mangie“Choose 3 Delegates”
Now, let’s say Cruz bought out three of the names on the roster here–the question is which three are Cruzbots and which three are Trump-friendly. Cruz is relying on low info voters to not know! So we need to be prepared.“Choose 3 Delegates”
[_] John Smith[_] Sally Poe[_] Joe Shmoe[_] Brett Mac[_] Jerry Jorge[_] Sal Mangie“Choose 3 Delegates”
This is the part that mattes most! Here is what you need to know!
Thankfully, one kind soul has gone through an excruciatingly exhaustive effort to detail each delegate and what is known about their stance–in a single document that can be found HERE, you will find all that you need to be informed about which delegates support Donald Trump.
[h=1]Forget the magic number 1,237: Trump campaign thinks it can snare an astonishing 1,400 delegates at the GOP convention in July[/h]
By NIKKI SCHWAB, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 23:18, 20 April 2016 | UPDATED: 23:18, 20 April 2016
Coming off his 'YUGE' win in New York, Donald Trump's campaign advisers are projecting he will win the nomination with the support of 1,400 delegates, nearly 200 more than the 1,237 needed.
The Washington Post got ahold of an internal campaign memo that articulates Trump's path to locking up the nomination.
The strategy focuses on being competitive in the remaining primary contests and bringing on board the 200 or so 'unbound' delegates that will go to Cleveland as free agents.
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Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail today in Indianapolis after his 'YUGE' win in New York, which his team believes will give him enough momentum to get more than enough delegates for the nomination
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Donald Trump is now the only candidate who can win the nomination on the first ballot and his team is projecting he'll win the nomination with the support of 1,400 delegates
The 1,165-word memo was sent out to Trump campaign surrogates by Erica Freeman and copied spokeswoman Hope Hicks and Rick Gates as well.
Gates is a deputy of Paul Manafort, a new Trump hire who has taken over some of the strategic work from longtime campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
It offers a number of talking points to be delivered by surrogates and other Trump supporters.
For one, it bowls over a claim coming from Sen. Ted Cruz's campaign that 'this will be a contested convention' and will go to a second ballot, where Cruz will be in a better position than Trump to win.
'The Cruz spin machine produces more lies than anybody else,' the memo says.
'Our projections call for us to accumulate over 1400 delegates and thus a first ballot nomination win in Cleveland,' it continues.
The memo didn't go so far as to call Trump the presumptive nominee, but it did label him the 'prohibitive favorite' of the Republican candidates.
After his win in New York last night, that the memo labeled as 'YUGE,' The Donald made it mathematically impossible for Cruz to win the nomination on pledged delegates.
He now has 845 of the 1,237 delegates needed to win.
There are 731 more delegates to be allocated, though only 620 of those will be 'bound' to the candidate who won a primary or caucus.
When just looking at those bound delegates, Trump will need 63 percent of them to clinch the nomination before Cleveland, which is possible, but an uphill battle.
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Donald Trump will have to do very we in the remaining primaries to get bound delegates, while also making a convincing case to the delegates who are coming to Cleveland who are unbound to a candidate
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That's why courting the unbound delegates will be key.
Another key part of the strategy outlined in the memo is to keep the pressure on the Republican National Committee.
'The RNC has a lot to answer for as do those who are part of the donor class and the party establishment,' the memo reads. 'This movement scares the hell out of them and the people scare them, so they will do whatever they can to keep power.'
By putting the RNC in the crosshairs, the Trump campaign can make the case that the party is trying to steal the nomination away from its rightful owner.
Pressure like that could cause the unbound delegates to come Trump's way.
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The Trump campaign has railed against the delegate selection process for weeks.
'We might as well have had straw polls instead of Secretary of State sanctioned primaries,' the memo reads.
The document also sheds some light on the beginning of Trump's general election strategy against Hillary Clinton, who won New York last night so convincingly that it will be nearly impossible for her rival Bernie Sanders to dig into her lead.
'Hilary email scandal is gong to loom large over the next several months. If anyone else had done what she had done, they would already be in prison,' is the Trump campaign-approved talking point.
The Trump team also tried to get out in front of what will be one of Trump's biggest perceived weaknesses: he's just not that well liked by many Americans.
The memo points to the low popularity of a number of Trump's opponents including Clinton, Cruz, Mitt Romney, who spoke out against Trump in early March, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and all of Congress.
'On its face the argument is absurd,' the note says. 'Everyone knows these numbers are quite fluid.'
Read more:
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- The Washington Post got ahold of an internal campaign memo that articulates Donald Trump's strategy to amass more than enough delegates
- Besides performing well in the remaining primary contests, the Trump campaign will focus on trying to get the support of unbound delegates
- Last night with Trump's big win, he made it impossible for rival Ted Cruz to get 1,237 pledged delegates on the first ballot
By NIKKI SCHWAB, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 23:18, 20 April 2016 | UPDATED: 23:18, 20 April 2016
Coming off his 'YUGE' win in New York, Donald Trump's campaign advisers are projecting he will win the nomination with the support of 1,400 delegates, nearly 200 more than the 1,237 needed.
The Washington Post got ahold of an internal campaign memo that articulates Trump's path to locking up the nomination.
The strategy focuses on being competitive in the remaining primary contests and bringing on board the 200 or so 'unbound' delegates that will go to Cleveland as free agents.
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Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail today in Indianapolis after his 'YUGE' win in New York, which his team believes will give him enough momentum to get more than enough delegates for the nomination
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Donald Trump is now the only candidate who can win the nomination on the first ballot and his team is projecting he'll win the nomination with the support of 1,400 delegates
The 1,165-word memo was sent out to Trump campaign surrogates by Erica Freeman and copied spokeswoman Hope Hicks and Rick Gates as well.
Gates is a deputy of Paul Manafort, a new Trump hire who has taken over some of the strategic work from longtime campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
It offers a number of talking points to be delivered by surrogates and other Trump supporters.
For one, it bowls over a claim coming from Sen. Ted Cruz's campaign that 'this will be a contested convention' and will go to a second ballot, where Cruz will be in a better position than Trump to win.
'The Cruz spin machine produces more lies than anybody else,' the memo says.
'Our projections call for us to accumulate over 1400 delegates and thus a first ballot nomination win in Cleveland,' it continues.
The memo didn't go so far as to call Trump the presumptive nominee, but it did label him the 'prohibitive favorite' of the Republican candidates.
After his win in New York last night, that the memo labeled as 'YUGE,' The Donald made it mathematically impossible for Cruz to win the nomination on pledged delegates.
He now has 845 of the 1,237 delegates needed to win.
There are 731 more delegates to be allocated, though only 620 of those will be 'bound' to the candidate who won a primary or caucus.
When just looking at those bound delegates, Trump will need 63 percent of them to clinch the nomination before Cleveland, which is possible, but an uphill battle.
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Donald Trump will have to do very we in the remaining primaries to get bound delegates, while also making a convincing case to the delegates who are coming to Cleveland who are unbound to a candidate
.
That's why courting the unbound delegates will be key.
Another key part of the strategy outlined in the memo is to keep the pressure on the Republican National Committee.
'The RNC has a lot to answer for as do those who are part of the donor class and the party establishment,' the memo reads. 'This movement scares the hell out of them and the people scare them, so they will do whatever they can to keep power.'
By putting the RNC in the crosshairs, the Trump campaign can make the case that the party is trying to steal the nomination away from its rightful owner.
Pressure like that could cause the unbound delegates to come Trump's way.
.
The Trump campaign has railed against the delegate selection process for weeks.
'We might as well have had straw polls instead of Secretary of State sanctioned primaries,' the memo reads.
The document also sheds some light on the beginning of Trump's general election strategy against Hillary Clinton, who won New York last night so convincingly that it will be nearly impossible for her rival Bernie Sanders to dig into her lead.
'Hilary email scandal is gong to loom large over the next several months. If anyone else had done what she had done, they would already be in prison,' is the Trump campaign-approved talking point.
The Trump team also tried to get out in front of what will be one of Trump's biggest perceived weaknesses: he's just not that well liked by many Americans.
The memo points to the low popularity of a number of Trump's opponents including Clinton, Cruz, Mitt Romney, who spoke out against Trump in early March, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and all of Congress.
'On its face the argument is absurd,' the note says. 'Everyone knows these numbers are quite fluid.'
Read more:
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