In Michigan, hundreds of Republicans gathered Friday and Saturday in Lansing to pick the national delegates to represent the state’s Republicans at the convention.
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At the “first ballot”, delegates are required to vote for the candidate that they were pledged for, but if no candidate has 1,237 votes, the nomination is open to anyone, Schweber said. But Trump has performed well in other Northeastern states, and delegate rules favor the leader: CT has a 50 percent winner-take-all rule for statewide delegates, and DE has a winner-take-all rule for all of its delegates.
Bernie Sanders was on “Late Night” early this morning, promising to support Hillary Clinton if she’s the nominee even after he called her “unqualified”.
Sanders, coming off a victory over Clinton in Wisconsin on Tuesday, tried to stick more to the issues after a fractious week in which he questioned Clinton’s qualifications to be president. When including superdelegates, or party officials who can back any candidate, Clinton has amassed even more delegates: 1,756 compared to 1,068 for Sanders. “So I think he will get past 1237 by the second ballot, which is good because he’ll unite the party, bring us together”.
He said, “I don’t believe that she is qualified if she is, through her super PAC, taking tens of millions of dollars in special interest funds”.
Asked what was the biggest worry of prospective supporters, Doug Deason, a major Cruz donor in Dallas, did not hesitate.
Worryingly for senior GOP figures, 16 per cent of those polled said they would leave the Republican party altogether if the nomination is stolen from under Trump. “In three weeks, in 10 elections in a row, we have beaten Donald Trump”, Cruz said, referencing the multi layered delegate selection process in Colorado.
The slate of Trump candidates Polisi was handing out listed 26 different names. So far, he’s winning about 45 percent.
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Because of this possibility, “candidates are paying very close attention on who’s bound to them”, said Michigan Republican Party Communications Director Sarah Anderson.
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– Nosh Tarachand, Chairman and co-founder of the National Asian Indian Republican Association – The Republican from Denver is in support of Colorado’s caucus system versus turning to the more common primary election.
