I was a Cruz guy from the beginning...

Didn't Trump win the most primaries, garner the most primary votes and have the most delegates of any Republican candidate in US history? That has to mean that Trump is going garner an extremely large section of any conservative vote in the general election right? I mean you can't be the most popular Republican candidate of all time and completely shit the bed a couple months later in the election, ESPECIALLY with Hillary as the opponent...can you?

I think the MSM doesn't want a Trump presidency, so they are underreporting his actual numbers. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to see Trump win in a landslide come November. I think this is exactly like the Brexit deal, nobody thought there was any way that the leave side would win, and it won handily.

I dunno, I think there's an awful lot of worrying that's being done prematurely. There's still PLENTY of time for things to change, especially once Trump and Hillary start going head to head in the debates.

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... the cold dead hands molon labe bullshit is just that, bullshit) every single person here would be no different than the california residents.

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It still serves one purpose... see my sig. [Coffee]
It REALLY strikes a nerve with some of them... they get insistent that "nobody is coming after your guns".... to which the answer is "not yet, not all at once"

I probably missed it (I've been working nights and haven't been able to follow it much), but why exactly did Cruz get booed off the stage after he was invited by Trump to speak at the RNC? Was it because he said “Don’t stay home in November. Stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution.” ? If those words alone are the reason he was booed, maybe we should pause for a moment and consider which of those words we disagree with and why.

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Didn't Trump win the most primaries, garner the most primary votes and have the most delegates of any Republican candidate in US history? That has to mean that Trump is going garner an extremely large section of any conservative vote in the general election right? I mean you can't be the most popular Republican candidate of all time and completely shit the bed a couple months later in the election, ESPECIALLY with Hillary as the opponent...can you?

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If anyone can, Trump can.

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I think the MSM doesn't want a Trump presidency, so they are underreporting his actual numbers. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to see Trump win in a landslide come November. I think this is exactly like the Brexit deal, nobody thought there was any way that the leave side would win, and it won handily.

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There is a theory that Trump is underpolling, as some people won't admit that they might vote for him. But Trump is way underperforming even in traditional GOP states against Hillary.

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I dunno, I think there's an awful lot of worrying that's being done prematurely. There's still PLENTY of time for things to change, especially once Trump and Hillary start going head to head in the debates.

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The worrying is because Trump has no ground game. None. Zipola. And Hillary already has an experienced, well organized campaign staff literally ten times larger than Trump's. The Clinton's know how to run campaigns and Trump has demonstrated that he does not have a clue.

Unless something dramatic happens, if it is close, Hillary is going to slaughter Trump with better ground game resulting in better turnout of her base voters. Just like Democrats did in 2008 and 2012.

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I probably missed it (I've been working nights and haven't been able to follow it much), but why exactly did Cruz get booed off the stage after he was invited by Trump to speak at the RNC?

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Cruz was booed because Trump is still campaigning against Cruz instead of Hillary. Trump organized delegates to boo Cruz at the convention intentionally - he had Cruz's speech in advance. Only yesterday Trump was yet again bringing up his bizarro-land nonsense about Cruz's father and JFK. More bizarre, Trump's daughter was delivering Democrat campaign slogans to the RNC and Trump delegates were cheering her.

I'm starting to think that Trump wants to throw the election. And that Trump was trolling the GOP - signalling the con - with those speeches.

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Cruz was booed because Trump is still campaigning against Cruz instead of Hillary. Trump organized delegates to boo Cruz at the convention intentionally - he had Cruz's speech in advance. Only yesterday Trump was yet again bringing up his bizarro-land nonsense about Cruz's father and JFK. More bizarre, Trump's daughter was delivering Democrat campaign slogans to the RNC and Trump delegates were cheering her.

I'm starting to think that Trump wants to throw the election. And that Trump was trolling the GOP - signalling the con - with those speeches.

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Again, this is why I'm confused: Trump could have easily accepted Cruz's comments (ESPECIALLY the calls for party unity) as an implicit endorsement and focused on moving forward to victory. Instead, he wanted to make some silly junior high drama about Cruz. [Dunno]

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Cruz was booed because Trump is still campaigning against Cruz instead of Hillary. Trump organized delegates to boo Cruz at the convention intentionally - he had Cruz's speech in advance. Only yesterday Trump was yet again bringing up his bizarro-land nonsense about Cruz's father and JFK. More bizarre, Trump's daughter was delivering Democrat campaign slogans to the RNC and Trump delegates were cheering her.

I'm starting to think that Trump wants to throw the election. And that Trump was trolling the GOP - signalling the con - with those speeches.

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I believed that when Trump started campaigning. I still don't trust him but I trust him more than any (D) right now.

It has been a while since there was a candidate I could really get behind. Seems like for at least 3, 4, 5 elections that we have the following choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0BuPgrBwHU