“The Alabama delegation is bound extremely tight”, said Alabama Republican Party Chairwoman Terry Lathan.
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It matters little in the answers which candidate someone supports. And it is a generalized concern, not determined by the outcome of the convention votes.
Cruz also said it was “ludicrous” that Trump is arguing the will of the people would be subverted if he loses the nomination in a contested convention.
Meanwhile, Trump spent the weekend in NY, which holds its primary this upcoming Saturday.
State party officials said the Cruz delegates nominated a slate of candidates for all the convention committees, but the Trump slate won. Another reason for concern is that most GOP voters do not expect anyone will have enough delegates to win the nomination by the time of the Convention. “Because they saw how I was doing and they didn’t like it”. So you’re seeing that on the Democratic side with superdelegates and you’re seeing it on the Republican side here. “This is a case where every delegate really does matter”. An unpopular presidential nominee like Donald Trump is nearly certain to cost Republicans House and Senate seats.
Your critics say it says something about your leadership ability – for somebody who touts himself as somebody who’s an organizational genius, who’s created this fantastic business organization, that you couldn’t create an organization on the ground that could beat Ted Cruz’s organization. The margin of error for the sample of 399 Republican primary voters could be plus or minus six percentage points. About 53% saying their opinion is “strongly unfavorable”.
John Kasich is the only candidate who could beat Clinton in November. Former President Ronald Reagan, for example, was also the victim of a contested convention in 1976, although the decision took just one round of ballots, not the “brokered convention” of multiple rounds that brings backroom dealing to mind.
Donald Trump is set to participate in a special CNN town hall in New York City Tuesday night, where he will be joined on stage by his wife and children ahead of next week’s crucial New York primary.
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Kyle Kohli, the communications director for the Colorado Republican Party, told ABC News that the group’s executive committee finalized their rules in September and that they were made public for all candidates on October 1. This includes ad revenue spent against other GOP candidates, as well as that spent against Clinton and Sanders. And that’s particularly true for Trump supporters.
