The Mad World of Donald Trump

vivatifosi

HornetSaver wrote: »

If the Republican race went to a brokered convention, would Kasich have a chance? That is obviously the only reason he has stayed in the race, just curious about people's opinions on whether he would have a chance even if it did pan out that way.

Kasich says yes, but Cruz and Trump trying to ensure opposite. CNN has an interesting and current article on this:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/04/politics/ted-cruz-donald-trump-stop-john-kasich-convention-committee/index.html?eref=rss_politics

Generali

Could the nomination be bought...?

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/04/politics/contested-convention-bribing-delegates/index.html

antrobus

Generali wrote: »

TBH I suspect you have a roughly similar chance of becoming the next President of the US as The Bern. To a European he's probably centre left but to an American I reckon he's beyond the Pale....

He hasn't done that badly so far. Won the last six primaries anyway, which is probably a testament to a widespread mistrust of Ms Clinton.

Still won't win mind you. Unless there's a miracle in New York or something similar.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

HornetSaver wrote: »

If the Republican race went to a brokered convention, would Kasich have a chance? .

Yes... If they can find a way around the rules committee '8 state minimum win' issue. So Trump/Cruz will try pretty hard to block Kasich supporters from being on the rules committee.

The problem they have is that Kasich is the only candidate that polls say would beat Clinton or Sanders in the GE. Both Trump and Cruz would lose decisively to either of them.

Generali

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Yes.......

According to viva's link from CNN it would take a rule change which Trump and Cruz's supporters could simply vote down.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Generali wrote: »

According to viva's link from CNN it would take a rule change which Trump and Cruz's supporters could simply vote down.

Yes it would - cross posted with my edit to clarify.

HornetSaver

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Yes... If they can find a way around the rules committee '8 state minimum win' issue. So Trump/Cruz will try pretty hard to block Kasich supporters from being on the rules committee.

Thanks for that.

Both Trump and Cruz would lose decisively to either of them.

Clinton yes. Sanders I'm less sure about. I don't dispute what the polls currently say, I just think he's too far to the left for America to say with confidence that he'd beat Trump (Sanders would beat Cruz because in that event Trump would presumably also run).

Wednesday2000

michaels wrote: »

BBC are practically crowing this morning - they obviously don't realise that Cruz is even more the antithesis of their 'liberal' views.

Ted Cruz is positively scary.:eek: I would say his views are laughable, but it's terrible as he seems like he really believes what he is saying.

Malthusian

Cruz strikes me as the Nick Griffin to Trump's Nigel Farage. Trump may have bad ideas but he's probably too much of a buffoon to do any real damage. Cruz sounds genuinely dangerous.

Generali

Malthusian wrote: »

Cruz strikes me as the Nick Griffin to Trump's Nigel Farage. Trump may have bad ideas but he's probably too much of a buffoon to do any real damage. Cruz sounds genuinely dangerous.

This is Scott Adams, writer of the Dilbert Cartoons, on why Trump will be the next President of the US. Trump was still a rank outsider at the time:

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/126589300371/clown-genius