How to: Eliminate the Grassroots influence for the third presidental cycle in a row...

father_abraham85 Sun, 07/17/2016 - 12:58

CLEVELAND — Minutes before midnight on Wednesday, two of Ted Cruz’s top conservative allies – Ken Cuccinelli and Mike Lee – huddled in Cleveland’s Lakeside Street Doubletree Hotel with the top brass of the Republican National Committee.

It was a meeting meant to be kept secret – a quiet but urgent negotiation to avert an ugly and divisive fight over the future of the GOP, one the Republican leadership worried could embarrass Donald Trump, and the party, in front of a nationally televised audience.

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According to multiple sources inside Trump’s campaign and the RNC, these GOP leaders were authorized to make a deal -- and they were close. But instead of a truce ... negotiations ultimately collapsed, ... within 12 hours, leaders on both sides were left bitterly pointing fingers.

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(That same day), just before Cuccinelli would huddle with RNC leaders at the Doubletree, Priebus joined senior Trump campaign officials Rick Gates and Jim Murphy to deliver a pep talk to dozens of Trump supporters on the Convention Rules Committee at the nearby Westin hotel.

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"The (Trump) campaign and RNC left nothing to chance. As they exited the meeting, campaign officials encouraged all the delegates present to put their cell phone numbers on a list to receive text messages throughout the Rules Committee meeting instructing them how to vote on every single amendment and motion.

Indeed, Cuccinelli and his band of insurgents so spooked the Trump campaign and the RNC that it forced the two to coordinate more closely than ever before, fostering a tighter partnership between the candidate and the party leadership he and his team once deeply distrusted.

“It was the first time where the Trump operation and the RNC operation en masse melded as one,” said another source in the room, who called it a “watershed” moment of cooperation.

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Posters Thought: Trump first made the deal with Clinton to be her inside man of the RNC. Now he seems to be making cuddle sessions with RNC Leadership just to spite the grassroots. Now if trumps support within the Party is real (having swept the primary process) why does the leadership need Trump's backdoor men to manipulate the Rules Committee?

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