Ted Cruz is again showing that he can out-maneuver and out-organize the toupee’d con artist from New York as his team gobbles up delegates in Iowa today!!
Cruz sweeps all three national delegates in Iowa's 4th GOP district
— William Petroski (@WilliamPetroski) April 9, 2016
Cruz sweeps all 3 National Delegates at the IA 4th district convention. #CruzToVictory #Cruz2016
— Bryan English (@BE_Iowa) April 9, 2016
Here's where we're at with nat'l convention delegates in Iowa: Cruz has 3 of the 12 that will be picked today, other 9 haven't been named.
— Jason Noble (@jasonnobleDMR) April 9, 2016
Of Iowa's 12 national convention delegates that will be chosen today, we now know 7 — and 6 of them are supporting Ted Cruz.
— Jason Noble (@jasonnobleDMR) April 9, 2016
Beginning to get updates on Iowa distinct conventions. Looks like Cruz swept fourth district (we have 4).
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) April 9, 2016
Matt Schultz, Cruz's Iowa chairman, and Jacob Chapman, a county chair for Cruz, elected as national delegates in #IA03.
— Brianne Pfannenstiel (@brianneDMR) April 9, 2016
Update: we now know 9 of the 12 national convention delegates to be chosen from Iowa today — 8 of them are Cruz supporters.
— Jason Noble (@jasonnobleDMR) April 9, 2016
State Sen. Jason Schultz, Chuck Petterson of Persia, Adam Motzko of Sioux City are national delegates in Iowa's 4th Dist. All back Cruz
— William Petroski (@WilliamPetroski) April 9, 2016
Iowa selected 12 delegates today in respective district conventions- I'm hearing Cruz picked up 9, another 3 #NeverTrump.
— Liam Donovan (@LPDonovan) April 9, 2016
CRUZ mops up Iowa delegates
1st Chung, Salmon, Barringer
2nd Heartsill
3rd J Schultz, Chapman, Enos
4th M Schultz, Motzko, Petterson— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 9, 2016
Ted Cruz snags 10 of the 12 Iowa delegates elected today.
Trump wins ONE: Christen.
I'm not sure who the 12th, @millermeeks, backs.— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 9, 2016
BOOM!!! Now, of course none of this matters if el Trumpo gets the nomination straight out by getting to the all-important delegate number of 1,237. But if he doesn’t, then every delegate Cruz snaps up is another vote for him after the first vote at the Convention.
Trump and his sycophantic followers can whine all they want about “stealing” the votes, but this is how the game is played, and it’s the game Trump signed up for when he ran as a Republican. If he doesn’t like the rules then he can get the hell out of our party and fund his own damn campaign in a third party. But he won’t do that because he’s a cheap bastard and probably isn’t as wealthy as he lets on. Let’s hope his con game runs out soon…