One of Cruz’s most powerful allies, she noted, was the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, which circulated ubiquitous blue fliers touting Cruz delegates at every voting location this week.
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In interviews, many of those Trump supporters said February was their first caucus and Saturday, their first convention.
Now, if you’re looking to jump on the bandwagon today, the bad news is it’s probably too late. “If they don’t get what they want, they blow it up”. “This is the reward at the end of a four-year rainbow”.
But the ballot distributed by the state party did include at least one clerical error: There was no bubble on the ballot for delegate candidate #379 (who was running as a Trump delegate, according to the state party list).
The afternoon concluded with details of the state convention, which will be held April 23 in Lexington. Kasich is hoping to pick up delegates in congressional districts across the state that will help him in a contested convention. The party requires would-be delegates to register with their county parties three days prior to their county conventions, but those conventions are not held on a uniform date across the state, so technically there is no single deadline.
In other words, winning delegates in the primaries and caucuses may be just the first round.
The Republican National Committee is already working on rules to present to the convention. If Texas Sen. Ted Cruz can block Trump from clinching the nomination on the first ballot, these unbound delegates are going to be the most popular people in Cleveland. “You get your delegates wherever and however you can”. “He’s also dominated the delegate selection process in a whole host of states where they are pledged”, the Iowa Republican added.
“The strength of our campaign from the beginning has been the grassroots”, Cruz told Denver7.
“On behalf of my partner Fred Zinnemann, who’s the chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Museum, I just want to be on record as saying we don’t think you have anti-Semitic bone in your body, and on top of that, we think you’re one of the best friends we’ve ever had in the Senate”, the man said. When including superdelegates, or party officials who can back any candidate, Clinton has 1,756, or 74 percent of the number needed to clinch the nomination.
The ballroom floor was littered Cruz campaign slates (the tip sheets indicating which delegates are endorsed by the campaign). Some counties had no representation, like Adair and Metcalfe counties, because no delegates or alternates showed up.
Williams said it probably won’t be clear how numerous delegates elected Saturday support any given candidate – they’re not required to report their candidate preference at the convention. At those assemblies, three delegates each were selected for the RNC.
They spoke after Cruz completed his sweep of Colorado’s 34 delegates by locking up the remaining 13 at the party’s state convention in Colorado Springs.
The process, however, can be complicated, with rules and requirements varying from state to state.
On the Republican side, Mr Trump continued to try to catch up to Mr Cruz’s ground operation, which is months ahead and trying to eat into Mr Trump’s home state support in pockets of NY. “Washington State is actually going to have a voice”, said Montgomery, who joined roughly 400 in Puyallup for the all-day convention.
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-Let former contenders like Rubio assign their delegates to a remaining candidate, a practice that now varies by state. He addressed Republican Jewish Coalition members who had backed other candidates – a “perfectly natural reasonable thing” given how big and diverse the GOP field was when the race began – telling them now is the time to unite. Keeping those delegates on board through multiple ballots could prove decisive for candidates. We looked at people who had been supporting Cruz for a long time.
