If the front-running Trump enters the convention without the 1,237 but doesn’t win the nomination on the first round of balloting, the so-called “unbound delegates” are free to vote in subsequent rounds for essentially any candidate.
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The Republican convention has not been contested since 1952 and Henry Barbour, an RNC member from MS, noted it was “uncharted waters” for the party not to have presumptive nominee so late in the cycle. Trump is delivering what’s being billed as a major foreign policy address to the National Press Club on Wednesday.
In the Democratic race, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders continued their bout, with Sanders saying on ABC he’d consider backing Clinton should she win their contest.
Mrs Clinton campaigned in CT before her visit to Rhode Island.
But Sanders said it’s not that easy. Trump is leading his opponents, Cruz and the governor of Ohio, John Kasich, in the polls and in the number of delegates he has secured, though commentary has turned to the idea of a “contested convention” if Trump does not secure enough delegates to win the nomination on the first ballot at the Republican Party convention at the end of July.
“I think we get that 1,237”, he says.
Cruz benefits from more favorable demographics in IN than Pennsylvania, but he also performs better there among the demographics that have provided his base in the past, including evangelicals, Tea Party supporters and very conservative voters.
But a darker offshoot of that argument is that the system is “rigged” and that he should be the nominee because everyone else is cheating.
This year in Florida, we will send 99 delegates to the convention to represent our state: 81 of them are elected within their congressional district by the three local Republican leaders of the counties that make up that district (county chairs, state committeemen and state committeewomen); 15 are at-large delegates, suggested by the chairman and elected by grassroots leaders that make up our executive board.
Democrats, including Clinton, have criticized Koch and his brother, David Koch, for using their wealth and a huge funding network they helped organize to support politicians, usually Republican ones, who reflect their opposition to government regulation of industry.
Sanders is addressing more than 7,000 people at a Providence, Rhode Island, park ahead of the state’s primary on Tuesday.
“Not at all”, Clinton said. Last week’s NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that 62 percent of Republicans thought the “candidate with the most votes in the primaries” should become the nominee in the event that no candidate wins a majority of delegates, compared with 33 percent who said Republicans should choose the “candidate who the delegates think would be the best nominee”.
Senior Trump aide Paul Manafort dismissed rival Republican candidate Ted Cruz’s accusation that the real estate mogul had lied about his policies on immigration to “fool gullible voters”. He denies giving money to efforts to oppose Trump. But he says that he’d “have to believe her actions would be quite different than her rhetoric”.
“Now, he can’t do it on the first ballot, because they’re locked in to me”, the billionaire businessman said to cheers and applause.
It was announced this week that that Tubman would be featured on the $20 bill. They cruised to huge victories in Tuesday’s primary in NY, a state both have called home.
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Clinton said Trump wants to “go after every one of the rights we have”.
