Addressing the RNC’s spring meeting in Hollywood, Fla., Priebus stressed that “the rules for how we choose a nominee have been transparent and effective for decades and this year is no different”.
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Ted Cruz, has aggressively recruited delegates from several states who would vote for Cruz if Trump falls short on the convention’s first ballot of the 1,237 needed to capture the nomination. We aren’t going to hand the nomination to anyone with a plurality, no matter how close they are to 1,237″, he said, calling the threshold “one of the bedrock values of American government.
“Ironically, if Robert’s Rules of Order had been passed, the nominations could have been reopened by a mere majority to allow Kasich to be nominated after the balloting had begun”, he said.
“We expect our candidates to support our Party and our eventual nominee”, he said.
While agreeing his proposal would make it tougher for anyone other than the delegate leader, part-time Palm Beacher Donald Trump, or Texas Sen. The state’s delegates initially are bound to follow voter preferences among presidential candidates who win at least 15 percent of the New Mexico vote on June 7.
The RNC and its rules committee can recommend changes in the processes the 2,472 convention delegates will use to crown a nominee. The GOP’s K Street fundraising network would be more shattered by a Cruz nomination than nominating Trump, who is flexible and corporatist enough to play ball with K Street.
Mickelsen told committee members she wanted to withdraw her resolution, but may bring it back at some future date. “Nobody can take an election away with the way they’re doing it in the Republican Party”, Trump said Tuesday after his resounding win in the NY primary. “And if there’s one thing we don’t need as a party, it’s the perception that the committee is trying to handicap, or finagle who’s going to [be nominated] and who isn’t”. “We can’t take a chance that we’re accused of any monkey business”, said Gov. Rick Scott.
“Unity makes the impossible possible”. It was sparked by the delegate fight between Trump and Cruz and the real estate magnate’s allegations of a “rigged” nominating system. “I will submit, Mr. Chairman, that in the supercharged political environment in which we find ourselves, this is not the time to be debating rules changes”. “It reinstilled in me that any of them can win in November”. “I think what there is is pro-candidate sentiment for a candidate that they supported maybe more than another candidate”.
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Three of New Mexico’s national delegate seats are reserved for state party Chairwoman Debbie Maestas and Republican National Committee members Rogers and Rosie Tripp.
