Ted Cruz on Saturday won all of the 14 Wyoming at-large delegates that were up for grabs at the state's convention, another sweep for the Texas Senator in the Western states. Less than 500 elected county delegates met in Casper, Wyoming early Saturday morning to elect the last 14 up for grabs delegates. Cruz was the only candidate to address the convention in person, urging the assembled crowd to back Cruz supporters for the delegate slate in order to stop both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. "If you don't want to see Donald Trump as the nominee, if you dont want to hand the general election to Hillary Clinton, in which is what a Trump nomination will do, then I ask you to please support the men and women on this slate," Cruz said, as he held up a piece of paper that showed a ballot of the 14 delegates supporting him. "The state of Wyoming right, now the entire country -- its eyes are on this state." …show more content…
A Trump-delegate, Claire Powers spoke in behalf of Trump and ask the crowd who do they prefer between the two top rivals. “Who do we want, Cruz or Trump?” Powers said before the crowd interrupted her by shouting back - "Cruz!" The success in Wyoming for Cruz now means that 23 out of the state's 29 delegates are bound to vote for the Texas Senator on the first ballot. Saturday’s sweep for Cruz follows his victory last month in Wyoming, when he scored 9 of 12 available delegates at county conventions. Trump and Marco Rubio each won one delegate last month in Wyoming. Four delegates are uncommitted and 14 alternates delegates are divided with seven for Cruz and the rest of the other seven are uncommitted. The victory for Cruz demonstrates how his grassroots efforts and campaign have organized strategic movement to prevent Trump from garnishing the 1,237 delegates needed before the July GOP convention as well possibly causing a contested convention to
David Hicks was a 34 year old black male. He was on death row in Texas from December of 1987 to April of 1988, sentenced to die by lethal injection for rape and murder, on April 25th 1988, of his 87-year-old grandmother, Ms. Ocolor Heggar. David was only a suspect because he was near her house at the time of the crime. There was no indication that he had been inside¡Xexcept, for DNA evidence. The DNA test determined that similarities between sections of DNA removed from David¡¦s blood and DNA recovered from semen in Ms. Heggar¡¦s house would occur only one time in a total of 96 million people.
While Donald Trump is expected to win my most accounts, it’s not as certain as some of the other states for him. Though he has been polling quite well in Georgia, the state does have a large sect of Southern Baptists. Has Trump done enough to perform well among evangelical voters? If South Carolina is any indication, yes. Trump performed extremely well there among all demographics and should do the same in Georgia. Marco Rubio should win second place, with Ted Cruz coming in third. These positions will reflect what most states see on Super Tuesday, with some obvious
Cory Booker, senator of the United States, uses personal judgements along with pathos,ethos,logos, and various rhetorical devices to convince the audience that Hillary Clinton and Jim Kaine are the most suitable candidates from the Democratic party for presidency. During the month of July 2016, a speech by Booker was given at the Democratic National Convention in New Jersey. The speech was to inform and connect to the people of America, known as the audience, that the two candidates, Hillary and Tim, are capable in holding the position of presidency and continuing the traditions of the past.
majority of the states, and those that were on the ballot in a majority of
A state's primary election or caucus is usually an indirect election: instead of voters directly selecting a particular person running for President, they determine the delegates each party's national convention will receive from their respective state. These delegates then in turn select their party's presidential These unplugged or superdelegates do not need to vote the way their constituents would prefer, making a few men or women as powerful as a whole county in a state. Also the states’ primaries and caucuses are held over about four months with about four states on average each week. The overall results of the primary season may not be representative of the U.S. electorate as a whole: voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and other less populous states which traditionally hold their primaries and caucuses in Late-January/February usually have a major impact on the races, while voters in California and other large states which traditionally hold their primaries in June generally end up having no say because the races are usually over by then.
Ever since the election season of 1972, presidential primaries have become “the dominant means of selecting the two major party candidates.”i[i] The primary system is one in which the eligible voters of each state do one of the following: 1) Vote for a presidential candidate to run for their party in the general election. 2) Vote for a delegate pledged to vote for a certain candidate at the party’s national convention. As intended, this process would bring the candidate selection processes out into the open and “let the people vote for the candidate of their choice.”ii[ii] On the surface, this may look very democratic (and admittedly, in some instances it was/is), but upon closer examination, it becomes overwhelmingly clear that the candidates are chosen long before the people cast their vote. The culprit: the structure of the presidential primary system.
Next up on the tier of representation is the governor. The governor of Texas is republican Rick Perry. Similar to Leffingwell, Perry is a native Texan. He grew up in a small town near Forth Worth, where he lived the majority of his youth. He then attended Texas
With less name recognition than his opponent and his predecessor as for Democratic candidate, both of whom garnered name recognition as members of the Stafford Board of Supervisors, Cole’s campaign must ensure voters are aware not only that Cole will be on the General Election ticket, but also aware of his name and personality weeks or months before the
Ted Crux is a government official of the opposite party of the current leaders of the country. His stance on issues are on the farthest point right of the conservative republicans. What Democrats will bring forward, Cruz will do what ever it takes to make sure that it doesn’t pass and dies on the floor. Whatever the Democrats position, Cruz will take the opposite. Ted Cruz has stated multiple times that ...
When ABC decided to pick up the tab for “Designated Survivor” last December, Donald Trump was also in the middle of GOP voting for their official candidate. Trump bested several Republicans who have been in the political scene for quite some time. Just recently,
There’s a time in U.S. history where time calls for a new national leader. As our time is drawing closer, the heated debate over a new presidential leader is here. As Democrats and Republicans and all the other parties that no one ever really hears about, vie for the presidential position, Ted Cruz enters the race. As he represents Texas and hopefully the Unites States, I believe he is the best candidate to bring this country back to its respected and original roots that our founding fathers intended it to have.
The disputed election of 1876 was one of the most controversial Presidential elections in United States history. This election began as many others when Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes a three- time governor from Ohio faced off against Democratic candidate and reform governor of New York Samuel J. Tilden. At the start of the election, it appeared that Tilden would sweep the majority of the popular and electoral votes as he had nearly 300,000 more popular votes and earn 184 out of the 369 electoral votes. (Brinkley 369) Towards the end of the voting process, it was made apparent that there were 20 disputed electoral votes that came from Florida, Oregon, Louisiana, and South Carolina and if Hayes won all 20 electoral votes, he would win the Presidency. These disputed votes
On June 3rd, 2014 in the state of California, elections were held with the aim not to select who will occupy certain government positions, but to select who will be the two major remaining for the November elections. Jerry Brown won the first position with 54.5 percent of the vote, becoming the only Democratic candidate to reach the final election for November (which he is most likely to win). In second place was Neel Kashkari, a Republican and former member of the administration of President George Bush, Kashkari could leave other third Republican in the race, Tim Donnelly, a supporter of the Tea Party movement and viewed by many
won 64% of the seats using the first past the post system. In a truly
Aside from the media, the internal issue with our election is the two party system, corruption, and the gerrymandering. This issue affected both the Republican side and the Democrat’s side of things for this election, however the Republicans are not immune to these issues. Hillary and Bernie has had a historic clash in the primaries that will go down in the history books. This run for to the nominee of the Democratic party ended in a way that angered half the party. As I observed the primaries through my own eyes, there was a lot of turmoil going on and it wasn’t the republican side. The Primaries is a game of who can get the most delegates and super delegates. People voted and in most the states it was close between Sanders and Clinton. What