{"id":14133,"date":"2016-04-18T01:33:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T01:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14133"},"modified":"2016-04-18T01:33:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T01:33:50","slug":"whinin-donald-needs-to-quit-griping-about-delegates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14133","title":{"rendered":"Whinin&#8217; Donald needs to quit griping about delegates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cruz.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13639\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cruz-300x200.png\" alt=\"cruz\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump has a trove of nicknames he tosses out at his political foes.<\/p>\n<p>Lyin&#8217; Ted is one. So is Little Marco. Now he&#8217;s come up with Crooked Hillary.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but one of those adversaries, Ted Cruz, may have coined a name for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Whinin&#8217; Donald.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Cruz\u00a0today told Trump to quit his &#8220;whining&#8221; about the Republican Party&#8217;s delegate selection process leading up to the GOP presidential convention in Cleveland this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is griping about the process, calling it a &#8220;sham&#8221; and a &#8220;disgrace.&#8221; He says the game is rigged against him.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s the way the RNC has set up the selection process. It allows candidates to persuade delegates to join their team. Trump&#8217;s campaign staff apparently hasn&#8217;t gotten the word on how the process works. They&#8217;re being outhustled by the Cruz Missile&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p>Trump doesn&#8217;t like it.<\/p>\n<p>RNC Chairman Reince Priebus says he isn&#8217;t changing anything. The rules are the rules, he said. Trump has to work within those rules, the chairman added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/276595-rnc-chief-no-changes-to-delegate-requirement-likely\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/276595-rnc-chief-no-changes-to-delegate-requirement-likely<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Priebus said the RNC will continue to insist that one of the candidates for president must have a majority of delegates pledged to capture the party&#8217;s presidential nomination. Trump suddenly is looking vulnerable in the hunt for delegates and he is arguing now that a plurality ought to be good enough.<\/p>\n<p>No can do, Priebus said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump now has turned to whining about the process.<\/p>\n<p>This GOP campaign gets more fun as each day passes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump has a trove of nicknames he tosses out at his political foes. Lyin&#8217; Ted is one. So is Little Marco. Now he&#8217;s come up with Crooked Hillary. Oh, but one of those adversaries, Ted Cruz, may have coined a name for Trump. Whinin&#8217; Donald. Sen. Cruz\u00a0today told Trump to quit his &#8220;whining&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14133\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Whinin&#8217; Donald needs to quit griping about delegates<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1424,2139,2892,3878,3967,4537],"class_list":["post-14133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-marco-rubio","tag-reince-priebus","tag-rnc","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14136,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14133\/revisions\/14136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}