They aim to stack the rules committee with Cruz delegates and change the rules:
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Question if either of you or anyone else knows. Isn’t there a rules committee meeting
the week before the convention to establish the rules for the Convention? Those rules have
to be adopted once the convention meets.
Are you all talking about those rules or rules regarding candidates for President?
Thanks.
Yes, both. The rules are presented and need to be adopted. The rules for the convention dictate how a presidential candidate is nominated and who is eligible to be nominated. The 2012 rules don’t necessarily apply.
That’s why Trump needs loyal delegates. Many of the current delegates are obligated to vote for him through one ballot or beyond to through 3. But, they have no obligation to vote favorably on any of the rules.
So if Cruz has 566 of his own loyal delegates and hundreds of other Cruz delegates appointed in states where Trump has won, it could be a problem.
The convention rules committee is 112 and is different from the RNC rules standing, although some may overlap.
While Trump will win the state of Washington, the delegates are nearly all for Cruz 40/41, just like Arizona 46/58 (Trump won with over 110,000 votes) and other states where Trump has won the people and Ted poaches the delegates.
“Donald Trump may be the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, but Washington state’s GOP convention awarded 40 out of 41 elected delegate slots to Ted Cruz.” -Seattle Times May 21, 2016
Paul Manafort has to be 100% aware of all of this.