Despite coming in first in Georgia’s Republican presidential primary, Jim Galloway and Greg Bluesmen of the Atlanta Journal Constitution report that the New York businessman was outmaneuvered by the Ted Cruz campaign:
Across the state, 14 GOP conventions were tasked with electing 42 of the 76 delegates who will go to Cleveland for the July national nominating convention. Each district chose three delegates and three alternates.
In the 11th District, which stretches from Buckhead into northwest Georgia, backers of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz swept up most of the delegate slots. Trump loyalists were skunked.
At the Sixth District gathering in Alpharetta, the Trump campaign salvaged one of the three delegate slots, but lost the rest. Two supporters of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who garnered less than 6 percent of the primary vote, were named alternate delegates.
Elsewhere, Trump’s forces struggled. Debbie Dooley, a tea party organizer and Trump ally, was defeated in her delegate bid at the Seventh District gathering. Several Trump supporters soon bolted the convention – taking the American flag with them.
Maybe Trump should go back and read his “Art of the Deal” again. As Daily Kos Contributing Editor David Waldman notes, how can the genius billionaire businessman get Mexico to build a wall when he can’t even close the deal in places like Georgia?
Watch as one man storms out while another Trump supporters screams “I hope you’re proud! Proud to be ‘Mericans!” Meanwhile, a bewildered man in the audience can be heard saying “Is he stealing the flag?!”