A new WAC-A-MOLE.
Donald Trump has proven to have a 5th grade understanding of civics, and a second grade level of civility.
what there, why the, who the ##### made up these rules?!?!?!
Even if one is impartial they have to wonder, what’s the point then?
Someone smart there me, and there are many, explain the logic in this please.
I don’t think that’s a new rule at all. Reagan picked a Pennsylvania V.P. in 1976 trying to win over the delegates for the first ballot, but he picked a liberal and his base revolted.
We in PA also vote for all the delegates by name on the ballot and they are NOT assigned to any candidate on the ballot. They don’t have to declare who they support and they are not bound to vote for who wins their district or the state. There are only a couple other states not bound on the first ballot.
From what I understand, most of the people who run for delegates here are establishment politicians, because they have to have name recognition to get votes based on their name.
I doubt it.
He is a businessman. Not a corrupt, lifer politician.
Trump should get 54 friends from PA to be his delegates
Would make sense, I guess
PA has 71 total.
17 do go to the winner.
Do Pennsylvanians? because they ought to be concerned that their votes are meaningless.
Simple rule : If Don doesn’t understand the rules, then he must have been cheated.
Doesn’t matter. Trump needs to win the state and all the NE states. I want trump winning 36 states.
What we are seeing is the victory of politics and politicians over the people, who believe they have a say in their government but are actually just handed an illusion to believe.
The Democrats have their Supers and the Republicans have their shell games. And both parties are two sides of the same coin. That coin is Caesars, and you give to your rulers what is theirs.
Trump’s first mistake is not understanding that this is not business with set rules, the rules here are Byzantine - for professionals only. And because of that he didn’t quite grasp that revolutions MUST come from the outside. Unfortunately, they probably must also be by force.
No. He doesn’t understand how the Nomination works either I don’t think!!!
The Republican Party Election Rules are they same as a Union Local... not surprised
The article quotes two of the delegate candidates as being Trump supporters.
I know of a third, Joe Sacco, running in my congressional district, the 4th.
We have a couple hundred people to choose from for the 3 slots in each congressional district for a total of 54.
There are 15 candidates in my district alone.
Funny how those who traditionally berate and excoriate the GOPe/RNC for diddling with the process now believe that it’s all just a given part of the game - silly voters.....
As far as I know, yes, he knows this. The models that have him obtaining a majority of delegates at the convention have him taking 17 Pennsylvania delegates to the convention.
There was a long discussion about this on one of the channels last night as they were waiting for the returns to come in. They loosely compared the hunt for delegates to the Iowa caucuses. One commentator was saying state by state you have to meet with people, shake hands, woo them, and make sure they show up to vote for you, and just winning the primary was not going to be enough, especially if this becomes an open convention. Cruz’s people are doing that; Trump’s are not, at least not to the same extent.