The rules in Cleveland will be whatever the delegates vote to approve.
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If you were Trump or Cruz, you might love new rules that prevent the “white knight” scenario by making fresh nominations impossible. A week or so before the convention opens, they’ll meet to determine how things will proceed. They can make it easier for delegates to ditch their commitments to their candidates. Party chairman Reince Priebus has discouraged any rule changes this week.
Members are now being methodically chosen day by day, in state after state.
Despite getting shut out of the delegate race in New York, Cruz is aggressively courting delegates across the nation who could hold great sway at the convention. Ash is the chairman of the Rules Committee. At least not right away. “And under the rules and under the concept of this country, a majority rules on everything”.
The GOP platform, which is formally adopted at the Republican National Convention, has included language every election year since 1984 with support for a human life amendment to the Constitution and a call for “legislation to make it clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children”.
I’m not anxious about the rules.
“It took Abraham Lincoln three ballots to get a majority in 1860”, he said.
North Florida dominoes: Now that a federal judge has thrown out the long-shot lawsuit of U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Jacksonville, the congressional district map selected by the court after the Florida Legislature failed to agree on one is the law of the land.
After two ballots, the convention is deadlocked.
At times, the speeches took a conciliatory tone, naming concerns of any leaders in the room who may be waffling on backing the nominee.
“My fellow RNC committee members, they will go back to their states and that’s exactly what they’ll do”. It would mean he would not get the nomination outright.
Trump’s campaign is dispatching Ben Carson to the meeting as part of a behind-the-scenes lobbying effort.
“I think that the nominee will choose the vice president”, Priebus said.
But there’s a danger in pushing too hard and alienating GOP voters. But he criticized the process during a small meeting with reporters after his presentation on Trump’s behalf to delegates at the RNC’s spring meeting.
But as chairman of the party, he has to put on a courageous face.
The intense media environment of modern politics has spawned a more thorough, lawyerly vetting process, which is what the Cruz and Kasich campaigns have begun.
This year’s convention is shaping up as perhaps the party’s most pivotal – and contentious – in a generation, but Senate Republicans appear increasingly nervous about it. Many in the party are agonizing over the possible elevation of Trump or a contested convention that awards the nomination to someone else, either of which risks damaging the party and handing Senate control to Democrats. Rules committee members, though, can be anyone’s supporters. They’re not bound by the state’s voting results.
Trump has complained that GOP rules are rigged against him at a time when his chief rival, Texas Sen.
Sounds like a lot of intrigue.
Yet the aides also noted that there’s another rule – 16(a)(2).
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The author of this dilemma is, of course, Donald Trump.
