Posted on 09/11/2023 12:42:58 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign is expected to fight against California’s new presidential primary rules during the state’s Republican Party convention at the end of September. In July, the CAGOP transitioned to a winner-take-all system, instead of allocating presidential primary delegates by Congressional district. Now if a candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote state-wide, they capture all of the state’s delegates. If no candidate reaches that benchmark, delegates are awarded proportionally.
President Donald Trump leads the field in California by over 50 points, appearing to be on track to secure all of the state’s 169 delegates. DeSantis, polling a distant 2nd place with only 16 percent would be awarded no delegates, angering Tallahassee-based consultants such as Erin Perrine, the official spokesman for DeSantis’s Never Back Down political action committee (PAC).
Perrine – who previously worked for the failed Dr. Oz campaign, as well as Trump’s 2020 re-election bid – said the changes were “Trump-inspired rigging”, arguing the California GOP was “making grassroots involvement impossible.”
The CA GOP says the changes are not for any particular candidate, but instead about ensuring the party is in compliance with new Republican National Committee (RNC) rules. The RNC has emphasized the need for primary candidates to campaign across the whole state and not just specific congressional districts in which they’re competitive.
In late August, Never Back Down ended its paid door-knocking operations in California, as well as in Nevada – another state where the DeSantis campaign is accusing the state party of attempting to rig the election for Trump.
Oh noos, the rules aid the number 1 contender!
Ron DeSantis needs to ask himself why am I still doing this and how the he’ll did I get talked into it in the first place?
I suppose there would be a point here to be made, but this only triggers with over 50% of the vote.
It’s not like one guy gets 36%, the next 35%, the next 10% and 9% etc and awarding all delegates to 36%.
It’s scoring 51% and the next guy is 15% and 10% etc. Of course 51% is entitled to winner take all. He’s going to get most of the districts anyway.
This is a weak complaint.
Just making the obvious grammar fixes no one else will do.
Without grammar, all is gobbledy-gook.
Will meatball even make it to the CA primaries?
Yeah - like that pesky rule that whoever gets the most votes wins.
Have you ever seen a career politician stop running for office he/she covets and desires?
Rhonda Santis aided himself by getting the State Legislature to hide his past and future travels, who he meets with, etc., from public scrutiny. He also aided himself by pulling a “Charlie Crist,” and getting that same State Legislature to change the “Resign-to-Run Law so he could continue to get a paycheck from Florida taxpayers while he’s running around the country destroying his political future.
The article leaves out that the Establishment Republicans had changed the rules with no announcement that it wasn’t winner take all before that.
If meatball did not have bad luck, he would have no luck at all.
Good post. I like the idea of having delegates awarded proportionately, but it’s silly to see a guy who is polling below 20% complaining about a “rigged” primary.
Good point. Ambition trumps common sense.
no, the primary use to be later, and who ever had the majority in a precinct, won the delegates for that precinct.
The calif GOP tried to change it to a proportional distribution of delgates, claiming that was what the national GOP said had to happen.
That’s what I said.
CA has been Winner Take All for most of the last century.
Last cycles they goobered it up a bit, but now we’re back.
What makes CA SOOOO important this cycle, more than any other, is that the primary will occur on Super Tuesday instead of mid-June after everyone else.
It’s over 10% of all delegates.
The article leaves out that the Establishment Republicans had changed the rules with no announcement that it wasn’t winner take all before that.
If it was winner take all, then the “wasn’t” is negating that premise.
i.e. I think you meant “it was winner take all before that.”
So, a collection of what 10 or 12 candidates and Trump... and between all of them they know Trump will handily top 50% most of the time so none of them will wind up with anything...
Think about that, 10 or 12 (or how many they are up to now) can’t collectively get 50% of the primary vote, but we are to believe they are better general election candidates?
You knew the rules when you got into the race, stop whining.
“Ron DeSantis needs to ask himself why am I still doing this and how the he’ll did I get talked into it in the first place?”
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Exactly my thoughts!! Ron would’ve been a lay up as either VP pick now (and Trump committing to only one more term), or sit back and coordinated with Trump that in the event Trump couldn’t run in ‘24 then Ron could jump in with Trump’s full endorsement and declaration from day one to pardon Trump, or etc....there would have been so many options available to Ron instead of the choice he decided on by listening to the Bushies! Unbelievable what’s happened here!!
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