Early on at the state’s convention over the weekend, the Republican Party of Virginia was expected to put up a slate comprised of a mix of each presidential campaign’s supporters. Cruz supporters dominated the party’s convention on Saturday at James Madison University in Harrisonburg. If Trumps does not get 1,237 delegates, the Arizonans can change their votes on the second ballot.
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“We can all be wrong one time out of 20”, he said about the polling process.
“Right now we’re focused on unifying the party”, senior adviser Paul Manafort told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. Republican strategist Matt Rexroad is leaning towards Mr Cruz but said the selection of Ms Fiorina makes him question whether he will support the Texan senator.
‘It’s a screw-you branch, ‘ Corey Stewart, chairman of the Trump campaign in Virgina, retorted. Instead, the way we win is we provide a clear contrast, we paint in bold colors, not pale pastels and the difference between Carly and me on the one side and Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump I think couldn’t be clearer.
Six delegates were chosen for GOP front-runner Donald Trump. Sen.
Delegates tied to candidates who drop out usually become “unbound”, although states like Virginia require them to pledge their votes in the first round of the national convention even if their candidates are out of the running. The others supported Ohio Gov. John Kasich or were undecided. But they didn’t complain when, although Cruz and Kasich together won 35 percent of the primary vote, because of Arizona’s rules neither got even a single delegate.
A recent Washington Post survey of delegates found Cruz could pick up an additional 130-170 delegates on a second ballot if Trump doesn’t have enough to win the nomination on the first ballot.
Sixteen delegates and 13 alternates were approved at the state party’s convention Saturday with only eight dissenting votes out of nearly 300 cast. Cruz’s Arizona campaign organizer says simple math led to the at-large victory. By making Ted Cruz the man to stop Trump, the GOP has earned themselves four more years of Cruz’s abuse of the Senate to run for president.
‘This was a political hack deal, like so much of our country.
Unlike primaries in most states where voters directly choose between the candidates, Colorado’s voting system for Republicans involves several rounds. Former Gov. Jan Brewer attends the Arizona Republican 2016 state convention at the Mesa Convention Center Saturday, April 30, 2016.
Republicans will elect 27 of the state’s 42 GOP delegates, three each in caucuses held in the state’s nine congressional districts.
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The only confirmed delegates from MA so far are state party chair Kirsten Hughes, national committeeman Ron Kaufman and national committeewoman Chanel Prunier. While Cruz is playing within the partys rules, Trumps claim that what Cruz is doing amounts to stealing resonates with voters.In mid-April, after Cruz swept Colorados elected delegates, stay-at-home mom Erin Behrens said she felt sick about what was happening to her candidate.
