A Virginia delegate to the Republican National Convention filed a class action lawsuit in federal court Friday challenging a state law that binds delegates to support the primary victor at the nominating convention.
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When the Tea Party was beginning to fight the establishment, Donald Trump was funding the establishment in both Democrat and Republican parties. “Correll believes that Donald Trump is unfit to serve as President of the United States and that voting for Donald Trump would therefore violate Correll’s conscience”, the complaint added.
Correll’s attorneys filed an injunction declaring Correll will need protection from prosecution under the state law because he plans to vote against Trump at the convention.
Last month, Trump fired Rick Wiley, who was the campaign manager for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a former 2016 candidate, and was brought on to run Trump’s nationwide get-out-the-vote effort. These delegates are looking for ways to cast votes for whomever they want.
Congressman Adrian Smith begged off answering the question of who he supported for the Republican presidential nominee previously, electing to let the process play out.
Eric Minor, a delegate from Washington state who has become a point person in the effort to block Trump’s nomination, told Politico delegates were “frightened” to oppose the property tycoon.
1,542 delegates are pledged to support Trump. He voted for Ted Cruz in the GOP primary but said at the time that he would be open to a Trump presidency.
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Trump leapt into presidential politics with a small group of aides, some drafted directly from his real estate business, with no experience running a White House campaign.
