BECAUSE THESE DELEGATES HAVE ALREADY VOTED IN THEIR STATE PRIMARY.
BECAUSE THESE DELEGATES GET TO VOTE ONCE IN PRIMARY, AGAIN IN FIRST BALLOT, AGAIN IN SECOND BALLOT AND AGAIN IN A THIRD BALLOT IF DEEMED NECESSARY.
BECAUSE STATES ALLOCATE THEIR DELEGATE VALUE ON PRIMARY DAY.
BECAUSE THAT STATE ALLOCATION IS MANIPULATED AT NATIONAL CONVETION.
BECAUSE 1237 IS A FALSE NUMBER WHEN DELEGATES VOTE GET COUNTED *FOUR* TIMES TRYING TO REACH IT!
You’re incorrect. You don’t understand the process. If you want to have a conversation, please don’t post in all caps.
No. Many states have neither held primary elections nor held state-level caucuses to elect delegates. So there is no such thing as "these delgates" because they haven't yet been elected.
No. States were required to submit their delegate selection plans to the Secretary of the Republican National Committee by October 1, 2015. (RRP Rule 16f)
I doubt a majority of national delegates have even been selected yet.
No. Voters vote in primaries. Delegates get elected by voters at caucuses to represent the voters who elected them. Just like the Electoral College.
There is no "deemed necessary." No one deems anything. The elected delegates vote on rules for the convention. The rules provide a process to follow when no candidate comes to the convention having received 50% + 1 of the required number of delegates. That number is required by the rules - voted for by the elected delegates.
It's very similar to the process followed by the Electoral College and would be very similar to the process for an Article 5 Convention of States. You're not opposed to either of those, are you?
No, it isn't. States submit a delegate allocation plan to the RNC in October before the primary election begins. Candidates are awarded delegates (after the primary election) based on the plans submitted to the RNC.
No. There are 2,472 Republican delegates this year. 1,237 is 50% + 1 of 2,472.
Theoretically, the whole slate of national convention delegates could decide (by voting in a rule change) that 50% + 1 is too high of a bar and lower the threshold. The power lies with the elected delegates not the GOPe.