To broker or not to broker, that is the question. Trump is more than half way to the magic number 1,237 delegates needed to grab the GOP nomination for President, but it is not a sure thing and unbound delegates could add to the drama at a brokered convention.
North Dakota, GOP delegate, Curly Haugland sent a letter to each campaign proposing a rule change, which would “allow any candidate who earns at least on delegate during the nomination process to submit his or her name to be nominated at the convention.”
“The rules haven’t kept up,” Haugland said. “The rules are still designed to have a political party choose its nominee at a convention. That’s just the way it is. I can’t help it. Don’t hate me because I love the rules.”
Most delegates bound by their state’s primary or caucus results are only committed on the first ballot. If subsequent ballots are needed, virtually all of the delegates can vote any way they want, said Gary Emineth, another unbound delegate from North Dakota.
This proposal would allow all those who had been in the race but are now out as to become candidates on the floor.
“It could introduce Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, or it could be the other candidates that have already been in the race and are now out of the race [such as] Mike Huckabee [or] Rick Santorum. All those people could eventually become candidates on the floor,” Emineth said.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, who decided not to run for the White House this year, said in a CNBC interview Tuesday he won’t categorically rule out accepting the GOP nomination if a deadlocked convention were to turn to him. But on Wednesday, a Ryan spokeswoman said the speaker would not accept a Republican nomination for president at a divided convention.
“It’s important that the Republican National Committee has transparency on what they’re doing [on the rules] going into the convention and what happens in the convention,” he continued. That’s because of “all the votes that have been cast in caucuses and primaries. Don’t disenfranchise those voters. Because at the end of the day, our goal is to beat Hillary Clinton or whoever their [Democratic] nominee is in November,” stated unbound delegate Gary Emineth, another from North Dakota.
Source: CNBC
Write in , and destroy the Republican party.
It’s time for all Trump supporters to form a third party !!!!
I will never vote for “Any Republican” ever again !!!!!!!
Amen Sister!!
Yup im all in! ][][][%
Biggest mistake of the GOP if they do this
Either way I’m done with the GOP
Our election system is CORRUPT, set up by the “insider establishment” to screw WE THE AMERICAN VOTER, designed to elect and put in office who THEY want, NOT who WE
THE PEOPLE want, but who THEY want. As for me, no matter what I have and will vote for the candidate of MY choice, DONALD TRUMP no matter how they change or rig the rules. I am not, nor have I EVER been a republican or democrat, I vote for who I think is the best choice for the job. The D and R system should be done away with. Let a person run on their own qualifications
If they do denie trump it will be the final days of the republican party
Yes but who votes for senators or representives in Congress will be voters… I would think you wouldn’t comment wisely and not wise-assly looks like a lot of idiots are going to be sent home…