Though numerous delegates chosen Saturday are supporters of Cruz, they still have to vote for Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention on the first ballot.
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus met with GOP House members Tuesday on Capitol Hill to assuage concerns sparked by presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s accusations the nominating process is rigged.
“We’ve got a slate of delegates who are committed to supporting me in Cleveland”, Cruz said.
Mr Trump said his supporters are becoming increasingly angry with states such as Wyoming and Colorado.
Keene said the two-week extension for self-nominations was based on feedback from all three campaigns, while a Republican state lawmaker with ties to the Ted Cruz campaign criticized efforts to extend the deadline as a strategical ploy by Trump.
In the Philadelphia speech, Cruz’s only reference to Trump was a “politician tonight winning his home state”, the Times notes.
On the Republican side, should Trump fall short of an absolute majority, the votes of more than 100 uncommitted delegates will be key, as well as the loyalty of all delegates, many of whom can vote as they see fit if no nominee is chosen in the convention’s first round of balloting. Instead, 475 party activists convened for a state convention to award 14 delegates.
“It’s up to the campaigns to know the rules and compete within each of those states with the rules”, he said.
“The Donald Trump campaign, meanwhile, seems to have one hot mess after another that it’s dealing with in terms of, here we are seven weeks from the end of the primary contest, and they’ve got people who are quitting and that are getting fired and moving in and out”, Nehring said. “Because I’ll tell you what – you’re going to have a rough July at that convention”. When you read articles about whether Trump can reach 1,237 pledged delegates by the convention, these 54 Pennsylvania delegates are held out of the analysis. “I don’t know if I can bring Romney back”. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas was second with 559 and Ohio Gov. John Kasich was third with 144.
Des Moines, Iowa – Donald Trump’s relentless assault on the rules that govern how Republicans choose their nominee is coming far too late to change what even defenders acknowledge is a complicated selection system.
At a news conference in New York City’s Staten Island borough on Sunday, he repeated his assertion that the system was “crooked”.
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A total of 29 delegates are available from the state and Cruz is set to win nearly all of them-at RealClearPolitics, they’ve allocated 23-9 from the original vote and 14 from the convention-with Trump coming away with only one delegate.
