[TomGuy]

shall demonstrate the support of a 40 of 42 majority of the delegates

I think I have figured out what that means:

Those are numbers in the 2012 National Republican Party Rules. That document has 42 rules. Rule 40 of the 42 rules regards the majority of delegates.

In the actual document, there are references to 8 of 42, 12 of 42, 40 of 42, etc. Those refer to the specific Rule #X out of 42 Rules.

[Petrosius]

No, it was just a copy and past from the pdf that included the page number “40 of 42” at the bottom of the page. The correct quote should just leave this out.

[jjotto]

Rule 40 begins on page 43 of this .pdf, which is page 39 of 42 on the original:

https://cdn.gop.com/docs/2012_RULES_Adopted.pdf