As I wrote about earlier this month, there is big MA GOP showdown this weekend to elect loyal Trump delegates to the RNC Convention between the Real Donald Trump camp and the Cruz camp, who are running as Trump delegates and will then abandoned Trump if he doesn’t win on the first ballot.
I’m on Trump’s email list and just got their “all hands on deck” call to attend one of the nine caucuses this Saturday. The email had three links, all bringing you to the same webpage, where you’re supposed to be able to learn where your caucus will be.
Just below the video on the page, the first line reads: “Find your caucus location here” and takes you to the Secretary of State’s page to find your local polling location…not your caucus location. Whoops.
Even better, the email ends, “and then join us this Saturday at 7AM at your local caucus location to vote for the Trump slate of delegates.”
Hmm…7 am sounded awfully early for me, so I checked the MA GOP site, which listed the start time for each caucus at 10 am. And it kindly lists the location of each caucus. (And I suppose by writing this post, I’m giving them enough time to correct it…but the Trump organization is hapless and I’m pretty sure they’ll screw up the second chance they’ve been given.)
You need to get in line early.
And stories like this won’t matter too much after Indiana. From Boehner to Romney’s advisor Rob Kuafman, we are starting to see the establishment begin to fall in line.
The Republican party “establishment” hates Ted Cruz and simply does not have the energy or the ability to fight off Trump. Trump is going to be the nominee and the election is going to a long, nasty fever dream that can only possibly end with him losing. I wish I could afford to spend six months overseas.
We should prepare to prevent that with the full resources possible. The Hill showed a record 35% vowing to sit this out. A record 54% claiming to never vote for the Democrat and a record 60% claiming never to vote for the Republican. But Trump had a lead of 38/18% among unaffiliated voters with the vast majority of them undecided. We may find that shocking, but a good number of Americans hate both nominees and will take a long time choosing the lesser of two evils. We can counteract that by running a campaign against their real enemies.
There’s also some sense that the locations (ave size about 350 people) might get crowded and latecomers would be discouraged/unable to enter, so the thinking was fill the place up with your supporters.
All the caucus locations are on the MA GOP website, as you mentioned.
Part of the Trump’s campaign’s issues like this are the high number of volunteers. In FL for example, volunteers were running regional offices.
On the Dem side national caucuses, like state caucuses, shut down registration fifteen minutes after the announced call to order, with anyone in line at that point still able to register.
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In fact, THEY are running as Rubio delegates as well, to the chagrin of Rubio workers who are worried they will be defeated and not get to go, which seems a fair assumption since the Trump people are turning out.
From my own observations and report of minions, Trump has pretty much swept the delegate caucuses
Even the Rubio, Cruz, and Kasich delegates AND alternates will vote for Trump on any subsequent ballot. Makes pledges of candidates of who they will release their delegates to look pretty hollow (…cough….Kasich..
cough).
And this is in Massachusetts.
Not more needs saying.
What are you trying to say?
I view today’s Massachusetts GOP as a far-right fringe organization comprised of utterly irrational extremists (with a scattering of more reasonable stalwarts attempting to steer it back towards political sanity and relevance).
I have never doubted that Mr. Trump is the overwhelming choice of those far-right extremists. In my view, any voter extreme enough (and disconnected from reality enough) to join the MA GOP is also extreme enough to enthusiastically support Mr. Trump, to totally squash any alternatives, and to absolutely jettison any semblance of fairness or process.
A more succinct summary is that I view today’s Massachusetts GOP (the party) as more like a mob than an organization. The behavior you describe is that of a mob, and the behavior you describe exemplifies the motivation of my assessment.
It contributes to the understanding of reality based.
or any of its elements, as well as the rank and file GOP voter.
But that’s not unusual here. Just like the premise of this post was pure speculation that turned out to be wrong, many here just guess as to what the MA GOP is all about.
If you were following the primary at all, you would know that Trump polls pretty steady across all demographics, and “extremist” is less a label for this supporters than “ordinary”. Note Rep Jim Lyons, who you would consider one of those extremists, was the Cruz state chairman. Other Republican players in MA supported Rubio and Paul. The people who showed up at the primary voted Trump. Maybe they’re just fed up.
Let’s just put down that “MA GOP expert” is not one of your strengths.
Says one GOP voter to another. “We’re not extremists.” Nah, really. You guys are just “different winged”. Sure.
Here’s a clue for somebody who is NOT in the GOP — “extremist” is one of the more positive things that can be said about a voter who supports Donald Trump.
and because you’re among liked minded people, no one calls you out on it.
I could go into a Tea Party meeting and say ” all progressives are idiots” and get 100% agreement. That doesn’t mean it’s true.
Your comment is not in any way intelligent or insightful. It’s just more evidence that both ends of the political spectrum have the same thought process “Our side good. Other side bad.”