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Go ahead, Donald, get 1,237; it won't matter: RNC delegate
CNBC ^ | April 22, 2016 | Lori Ann LaRocco

Posted on 04/23/2016 11:07:04 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Donald Trump may be the only Republican presidential candidate who can realistically hit the magic 1,237 number for the majority of delegates, but according to a senior Republican National Committee official that does not mean he will become the GOP presidential nominee.

Curly Haugland, a longstanding RNC official and an unbound delegate from North Dakota who will be on the convention rules committee in July, told CNBC that attaining 1,237 during the primaries does not secure the nomination.

"Even if Trump reaches the magic number of 1,237 the media and RNC are touting, that does not mean Trump is automatically the nominee," Haugland said. "The votes earned during the primary process are only estimates and are not legal convention votes. The only official votes to nominate a candidate are those that are cast from the convention floor."

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; donaldtrump; election2016; newyork; presidentdonaldtrump; rnc; teamromney; teamsoros; trump
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To: LongWayHome

The whole nation watches a riveting election series but Curly thinks it up to him. Frig him.


61 posted on 04/23/2016 11:53:34 AM PDT by major-pelham
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To: dfwgator
But what's to stop the RNC from doing a "Murkowski" and organizing a write-in campaign for KSick?

Nothing. It's standard procedure with these has-beens. The shenanigans to win that nomination weren't even subtle. There are still those among the 'pub elite trying to explain to us why what happened with delegates in CO, WY, and LA is okay.

Maybe facts will get them out of their alternate universe. There must be 20 Trump rally locations within an easy one-day drive from Cleveland. They average, what (?) 10,000 people who waited in line hours to attend a Trump rally. That's 2 million Trump supporters. What's to stop a lot of them, over a million, from getting to Cleveland?

It won't just be Trump supporters whose anger would spill over. On the dem side, it is so rigged that Sanders for all practical purposes lost before the first primary vote was cast. There would be across-the-political spectrum anger.

62 posted on 04/23/2016 11:53:35 AM PDT by grania
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To: PJ-Comix

Okay, we heard from Curly. Now what do Moe and Larry have to say?


63 posted on 04/23/2016 11:53:51 AM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: Brookhaven

I have a very conservative count of 1296. Steal that jack A$$es.


64 posted on 04/23/2016 11:54:58 AM PDT by WENDLE (Remember Colorado)
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To: fireman15

RNC leaders will need to have a face to face talk with Ted Cruz and tell him to drop out for the good of the party. If Ted wants to have any future in politics he’ll do the right thing. His name will be mud if he doesn’t.


65 posted on 04/23/2016 11:55:21 AM PDT by TexasCruzin ( He always hits back.)
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To: X-spurt

But, in a recent statement, the GOP party chairman said if Trump falls just one vote short (1236) that he will not be the nominee.

As this ND guy pointed out, there are a lot of rules-games that can be played with even so called bound/committed delegates to unbound & uncommit them.


66 posted on 04/23/2016 11:55:36 AM PDT by Brookhaven (Yet another proud brainwashed Trump zombie robot)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Had Colorado and Wyoming voters been allowed hold elections, the GOP vote in both states would have set records, bringing previously unseen-and-unheard-of thousands of previously registered Independents, Libertarians, Democrats and huge swarms who never even voted before.

Trump is doing that everywhere.

By not holding elections, those states kept the GOP bereft of that Trumped-up benevolence. Pretty stupid crap when you look at it in those terms, but then again, this is the GOP that gave us "The Human Penholder" Bob Dole, Commie Johnny McCain, and Mitt "The Mormon" Romney the last three time at bat.

In baseball, they'd be warming the pine after three stunts like that. Yer OUT!

67 posted on 04/23/2016 11:56:09 AM PDT by Gargantua ("...fee tine a maadyy..." ;^)
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To: ripnbang

Sounds like a challenge to me...

By golly, we can’t have any outsiders shooting their way into the inner councils and mounting a hostile takeover for control of the enterprise known as the Republican National Committee, nosiree, Bob.

Wouldn’t be the first time a corporate headquarters has been taken over from the outside, in what are (usually) bloodless coups.

The Donald is mounting essentially a third-party bid for the Presidency from within the corporate framework of an existing major party.

For that alone, I would cheer on the guy. “Business as usual” hasn’t been getting us much of anything lately.

What did Lee Iococca, the father of the Ford Mustang, do when he launched into Chrysler in 1978? An awful lot of deadwood got weeded out at corporate headquarters, that’s what, and what had seemed to be a doomed entity in American business, miraculously, was pulled back from the very jaws of oblivion. Chrysler went on to fail again later, of course, but that is a different story.

The Donald may be the closest thing we have today to another Lee Iococca. Might do to look up how it was done, you have the strategy and blueprint to be applied to the US Federal government.


68 posted on 04/23/2016 11:56:12 AM PDT by alloysteel (If I considered the consequences of my actions, I would rarely do anything.)
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To: Brookhaven

Of course, the hope is that in the meantime, Donald will do or say something that will ruin his campaign. Which is a distinct possibility.


69 posted on 04/23/2016 11:56:56 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: PJ-Comix

The GOP will be burned from the top of the ticket to the bottom if they keep this nonsense up. No real reason for Trump supporters to stay with the GOP since the GOP is against Trump, his policies & his voters.


70 posted on 04/23/2016 11:57:49 AM PDT by niki
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To: X-spurt

HE HIMSELF posted all those same details on his Republican CONTACT PAGE.


71 posted on 04/23/2016 11:58:13 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Okay, we heard from Curly. Now what do Moe and Larry have to say?


72 posted on 04/23/2016 11:58:14 AM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: X-spurt

Let’s take a look at this:

https://www.ndgop.org/pages-for-menu/officials-leaders-2/executive-committee/

What did he himself put there, hotshot..?

WASH OUT YOUR HEADGEAR AND **CLEAN UP YOUR ACT**.


73 posted on 04/23/2016 11:59:58 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: SamAdams76

I honestly don’t think the GOP establishment cares about the presidency. A Cruz loss to Hillary would be fine with them.

What they do care about is everything below that: congressmen, senators, governors, state reps, local officials. Because, those are the political offices most of the GOP establishment politicians hold. And, that’s where we need to make out threat—the threat of kicking them out of office.


74 posted on 04/23/2016 12:00:15 PM PDT by Brookhaven (Yet another proud brainwashed Trump zombie robot)
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To: PJ-Comix

75 posted on 04/23/2016 12:01:48 PM PDT by Bobalu (Mark Levin can improve any radio show just by not being on it)
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To: Brookhaven

Once in a great while a true leader steps up and answers the call....Trump is that leader for our time.


76 posted on 04/23/2016 12:03:03 PM PDT by princess leah
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To: PJ-Comix

Okay, we heard from Curly. Now what do Moe and Larry have to say?


77 posted on 04/23/2016 12:03:34 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: Brookhaven

They want all the perks of being in DC, without any of the responsibility.


78 posted on 04/23/2016 12:03:35 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: mkmensinger
Okay, we heard from Curly. Now what do Moe and Larry have to say?

"Moronica for Morons!"

79 posted on 04/23/2016 12:04:47 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: PJ-Comix

Okay, we heard from Curly. Now what do Moe and Larry have to say?


80 posted on 04/23/2016 12:05:44 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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