Ted Cruz can win a majority on the Texas delegation, for example, they could pack the rules panels with two Cruz supporters. “You had a lot of young people who were the children of CEOs and titans on Wall Street and people with fame and wealth and power”. As Craig Shirley recounts in his masterful history of the 1976 campaign, Ford’s chief delegate hunter, James Baker, complained to Time magazine that Ford’s people were being “outhustled” by Reagan, declaring “These Reagan people don’t care; they’re absolutely ruthless”. Trump is now leading the delegate count with 743 delegates.
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If no one gets 1,237 off the bat, 10News political expert Dr. Lars Hafner says 43% of delegates can vote for whatever candidate they want on the second ballot.
The post from the RNC Chairman comes as Trump has continued to attack the GOP nomination process as “crooked” and “corrupt”. In the latest poll from Quinnipiac, Trump still dominates with a majority against both Cruz and John Kasich, and looks set to win most if not all of the delegates. “You can buy all these votes”.
At least one Republican Party player, North Dakota’s Curly Haugland, is lobbying to do just that: Free the delegates.
According to the new poll, almost 6 in 10 Republican voters – 58 percent – think the candidate with the most delegates after all the state contests are finished should be the nominee, even if he doesn’t have a clear majority. What that entails, basically, is creating a voting slate consisting of the names and ballot numbers of candidates-there are about 600 on the ballot, so the numbers are important-who are reliable supporters.
In the aftermath of Ted Cruz routing Donald Trump at the Colorado GOP meeting, Trump and his allies have loudly protested how Trump was cheated out of his rightful share of delegates.
Douglas Heye, a former communications director for the Republican National Convention, said the organizational nature of a potential delegate fight plays into Cruz’s strengths. When his campaign attempted to reprint another copy of the slate, that version, too, contained errors. “We’ll do whatever it takes to protect the legitimacy of our support in Colorado”, Trump aide Alan Cobb told NBC, suggesting the campaign may challenge the results.
The point isn’t the particulars of the arcane rules themselves.
LLAMAS: He points to Colorado.
Trump won all 50 of South Carolina’s delegates. Trump simply has lost his leverage. He appears to have been totally unaware of the requirements in some of these states. And I think he was surprised as anybody. But hes doing so poorly in securing delegates to the convention, if Trump were on his own reality show The Apprentice, he would have to fire himself, Cruz said.Cruz even got in a jab at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has endorsed Trump after dropping out of the race.Chris Christie right now is trapped in his own private hell, Cruz said.
“The media’s enthusiastic embrace of the Obama narrative – that America should be willing to accept a dimmer future – has blinded it to the appeal of the Trump candidacy, and of an alternative, more compelling narrative”.
Priebus reacted to Trump’s comments on Twitter. Colorado Republicans cancelled their presidential since it would not affect their unbound delegates.
In a tacit acknowledgment of strategic shortfalls, Trump last week installed veteran GOP strategist Paul Manafort as his new “convention manager”, entrusted with shoring up his team’s efforts.
Anti-Trump conservatives have gleefully watched as the Trump campaign has struggled to grasp the delicate delegate-allocation process in states around the country. Trump ignored them, and lost out.
10News WTSP is breaking down why Republican convention rules could be against you as a voter.
“No, I was ready for a democratic race, meaning, you know, democracy”, Trump said. The disparity is even larger among women under 40 years old, only 7 percent of whom said they support Trump.
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But the editor has since vowed to stop giving “input” to Trump’s presidential campaign, the report said.
