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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHas a mathematically eliminated candidate ever announced a running mate before?
What bizarre world are we in. Cruz was mathematically eliminated last night. I know he's hoping to block the first round trump vote and more power to him. By he was mathematically eliminated and immediately thereafter announces his running mate! Just think about where this 2016 race is going.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)But still, to announce a running mate when eliminated is looking glass style.
Maybe he does know something more. Rule committee has yet to make this year's final amendments.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Trump may drop out?
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)It said Reagan did it in 1976, running against Gerald Ford.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Skink
(10,122 posts)Cruz cannot reach 1,237 if he gets every delegate remaining. He's mathematically eliminated.
Journeyman
(15,043 posts)He explained himself pretty much the way Ted Cruz would, were Ted honest with us (and himself):
"Deep down," Paulsen affirmed, "I happen to be very shallow."
He ran (and lost) in almost every Presidential contest from 1968 to his death in 1997, usually under a resounding slogan such as:
"We Can Be Decisive, Probably," and "United We Sit."
He explained his vice presidential pick to The Los Angeles Times in 1992:
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-01-19/local/me-773_1_pat-paulsen
Retrograde
(10,175 posts)She was trounced in the general election for senator, but she did manage to beat a moderate Republican (yes, we still have that endangered species) in the primary. He's desperate, and hopes that he can get enough votes in the closed GOP primary in California to make a dent in Trump's lead.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)His hope is that neither of the others get 270 votes, in which case the election is decided by the Republicans in the house.
former9thward
(32,121 posts)Far too late for that.
Ballot deadlines will be gone.
world wide wally
(21,758 posts)which is on fire by the way.
MFM008
(19,827 posts)Cruz has enough loose marbles to play Chinese Checkers?