[frogjerk]

How many unpledged delegates have defected in previous primaries or what is their percentage?

[ReneeLynn]

As a Northerner I have to sigh when I say, “Thank God for the South.”.

[Bailee]

Ahh Good Question will have to do research at the state convention.

But it appears at the National convention. Defecting delegates may have given us President Harding.

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