Posted on 08/24/2015 4:33:19 PM PDT by 11th_VA
The election is 14 months out, but this feels like no election I've ever experienced.
Let's assume the 'Donald' wins the nomination and the election - but a large number of GOPe electors refuse to vote for him. I would think the House of Reps would pick the President.
Who knows, we live in interesting times and the 'establishment' may not give up power easily.
Soapbox, ballot box, ....
They wouldn’t be “GOP electors”. They would be “Trump electors” chosen by Trump’s people. Maybe you could write a novel or something, but it ain’t gonna happen.
For it to get to the House, it would have to be tied in the electoral college. Possible, but not likely. Also, the format allows ONE vote per state delegation. Interesting dynamics would then come into play. Not sure where THAT would lead.
Will he have his electors in every state?
If Trump gets the nomination, he would still have to win in the general for the GOPe to steal the election. Plus, they have Jeb.
Not necessarily tied, just less that 270 I believe. Look what happened in VA last week. One VA GOPe Senator refused to support the Judicial Nominee, and now we have an empty Judge Seat
And the GOPe has a secret war room working against Trump
I’m not an expert, but I’m pretty sure each candidate puts their own slate of electors together. At least I’ve never heard otherwise.
I believe that you are right.
Didn’t the GOPe make changes to the nominating process after 2012 that could give them more control over who wins?
Could someone who knows explain this to us?
Regardless of who is the candidate, the party establishment will control the electors who choose the president.
Suppose Trump runs independent and get a plurality, but not a majority, of electors. The Deme and GOPe electors will choose the president. They will not let it go to Trey Gowdy’s house. They never gamble unless they own the house.
Keep in mind they ran a RINO as a 3rd party independent against Reagan in 1980 to try to help Carter beat him. It only failed due to Carter being so extremely unpopular.
Look to them to recruit Michael Bloomberg to run as an independent in 2016 to try and give the election to the Dems.
Yes, most of the conservative states vote early and are required to give proportional delegates. Most of the liberal states vote later and can be winner-take-all.
They also heavily reduced the number of debates because of how they hurt Romney. They assumed their guy again would have the most money and therefore not need debates for exposure. It backfired since Trump is their main opponent now.
The GOP establishment is to feckless to steal elections. Beside they can, “work with the Democrats to get things done”. Only the Democrats steal elections, because they are much more motivated.
He has billions to make that happen.
by their own petard are they hoisted
lol
I’m more thinking that obama buys the 270. After he creates chaos financial already started world already started nkor v skor, russia v. ukraine etc etc etc
they would most definitely be gop electors. the primary is run by the state gop. the electors are local political people.
In the primary each candidate has his own slate of delegates to the convention. You are really electing a slate picked by your candidate. Some states legally require they vote for that candidate on the first ballot, some don’t.
I always thought the electors for each general election candidate are chosen by the candidates too. But if someone really knows otherwise, I’d like to hear about it.
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