In addition, the candidate who wins the statewide vote gets an additional 13 delegates, according to Kaitlyn MacGregor, the state party’s communications director.
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In 1920, Warren Harding had less than 7 percent of delegates entering the convention.
“That makes the Minnesota delegation perhaps a strategic component of the convention”, said Keith Downey, the chair of the Republican Party of Minnesota.
And the people who end up there could have a greater say this year in who becomes the GOP’s presidential nominee.
John Kasich on Sunday categorically ruled out the possibility of joining a Ted Cruz or Donald Trump presidential ticket as either candidate’s No. 2.
The GOP is earnestly praying for Trump’s failure to win 1,237 delegates–the magical number required to win the nomination.
Granted, it would make the convention even more complex.
Much to the dismay of the party elders, they are left with only two contenders still running against Trump in the race to the White House – Texas Sen. And Donald Trump is on his way to taking the Republican nomination. I think bad things would happen, I really do. Marco Rubio, who, only a few weeks ago, was still being touted as the Republican party’s transformational figure for 2016. “The way to beat Donald Trump is at the ballot box”, the Texas senator said on “New Day”.
Paul said he took no pleasure in the GOP’s current conundrum, but did suggest their eventual nominee could face a third-party general election challenge.
“I said it in a joking way”, Trump said, adding that “The Mormons are very smart people”. The insiders, who hatched the plot over four heated hours in the stately surroundings of the Army and Navy Club in Washington, included congressmen, activists, and a former adviser to President George W Bush.
There has been a lot of press around Donald Trump due to all the violence at his rallies, and apparently the GOP candidate thinks there will be more to come! Minnesota Rubio backers are divided.
The former Secretary of State emerged victorious in the Democratic nomination by winning the votes of Florida and North Carolina.
It also disagreed with Trump being a “popular” candidate, arguing that Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has received more votes than him and many Republicans have not voted for the real estate tycoon.
But he adde: “You gotta understand that this is sort of a mission for all of us, and it’s not just me, it’s the team”.
“We will go into Cleveland with momentum and then the delegates are going to consider two things: Number one, who can win in the fall-and I’m the only one that can, that’s what the polls indicate”, he said.
Formal decisions about who serves as Minnesota’s RNC delegates will be made at congressional district conventions in late April and early May, and at a statewide convention in Duluth on May 20 and 21.
This Tuesday’s biggest prize is Arizona, a winner-takes-all contest worth 58 delegates, where polls put Mr Trump ahead by an average of more than 10 points.
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He could win the November election if people assume he’ll collapse under his own weight, that someone else is going to stop him.
