Recognizing the very real possibility that Trump won’t go into Cleveland with a majority, the Cruz campaign has tried to load state delegations with as many Cruz supporters as possible.
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“We’re going to go into the convention I think as the victor”.
In the Philadelphia speech, Cruz’s only reference to Trump was a “politician tonight winning his home state”, the Times notes.
A total delegate shut-out in New York’s primary Tuesday officially precluded Texas Sen.
Through implementing a strong ground game and grassroots operation in delegate elections in states Trump won, including Virginia, Arizona, Georgia, and Arkansas, Cruz is ensuring that his supporters will be at the convention – ready to support him if the convention goes to a second ballot. If a candidate wins with more than 50 percent of the vote, he will take all three of that district’s delegates.
“Well, actually at this stage of course the rules are the rules, and the party put them out there well over a year ago”, Romney said.
A Ted Cruz presidency would be a bitter pill for Peter King to swallow. New York Rep. Chris Collins, who was the first GOP lawmaker to back Trump, was campaigning in his district and missed the meeting. But the delegate candidates’ names appear on the ballot without any affiliation to a presidential candidate, meaning voters won’t necessarily know who they are really supporting.
“I continue to be tremendously encouraged by what we have seen played out over the last month”.
Unlike a state like Floridan in New York, Trump will have perform better, that’s because delegates are awarded at the district level.
Many in the party want businessman Donald Trump and Texas Sen. The nomination could be in the hands of 2,472 people who are bound to no one in a brokered convention.
PoliticsPA stated Pennsylvania is one of the only states where delegates are directly elected and don’t have to state a preference beforehand. And he said that, despite charges from Trump and others that the process is “corrupt”, the RNC will remain a neutral umpire without picking sides, attendees said.
That upbeat assessment on Saturday was interpreted by many as an expression that he hoped Donald Trump would not have enough delegates to win the nomination on the first ballot, meaning the nomination could fall to someone else on subsequent ballots.
Trump has complained about the delegate selection process in recent weeks after individuals loyal to Ted Cruz have been picked to represent some states where Trump performed well with voters. And, sitting on the horizon is Pennsylvania with its whopping 71 delegates – a state where he holds a solid lead in the polls.
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Yue wants the convention to use Roberts Rules of Order, which would let delegates block the convention’s presiding officer from allowing the nomination of fresh candidates for president.
