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RNC official: Donald hitting 1,237 won't matter
CNBC ^ | 4/28/2016 | Lori Ann LaRocco

Posted on 04/28/2016 1:45:22 PM PDT by wrrock

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.

"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."

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: 2016election; agitprop; cnbc; cruz; curlyhaugland; election2016; elections; gop; gope; loriannlarocco; newyork; northdakota; ntsa; rnc; stupidparty; treachery; trump; tyranny; uniparty
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To: traderrob6

The stages apply for normal people, not the mentally impaired.


81 posted on 04/28/2016 4:21:22 PM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm
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To: wrrock
It's simple. If the first ballot on the floor yields Trump 1237 delegates, he is the nominee, period.

5.56mm

82 posted on 04/28/2016 4:23:26 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Political Junkie Too; Rennes Templar

Most organizations have rules that might be INTERPRETED to conflict with other rules. That’s why it’s normal for all organizations to have a rules committee.

Political parties are the last stronghold of state sovereignty. No national convention, especially this one, is going to have a majority of delegates vote in favor of neutering state party rules.

Cruz and Kasich know they are positioning themselves for four and eight years from now.


83 posted on 04/28/2016 4:27:03 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: wrrock

They don’t get that the great fleecing is over..


84 posted on 04/28/2016 4:45:07 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe)
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To: wrrock

Rope. Curly Haugland. Some assembly required.


85 posted on 04/28/2016 6:13:59 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: wrrock

Trump as the republican nominee will end up with Democratic control of the WH, possible the Senate as well. Goodbye Supreme Court, the left now owns thee....


86 posted on 04/28/2016 6:23:43 PM PDT by utford
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To: utford
Trump as the republican nominee will end up with Democratic control of the WH,...

I know it hurts, but the neo-cons are dead.

For those who have fought, for those have seen friends die for no reason whatsoever, for those who have children who are on the front lines of tomorrows "wars", these are the patriots who applaud the America first stance.

There are many things worth fighting and dying for. The Washington cartel isn't one of them.

87 posted on 04/28/2016 6:34:41 PM PDT by Mensius
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To: NonValueAdded

Their way of thinking about so many issues has failed. The old Gop has been destroyed. Let’s make sure those type’s never have the power again. Frauds.


88 posted on 04/28/2016 6:37:28 PM PDT by Carry me back (.Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

A comment quite obviously coming from a “normal” third grader.


89 posted on 04/28/2016 6:52:52 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: utford

“Trump as the republican nominee will end up with Democratic control of the WH”

Who would you rather see get the nomination?


90 posted on 04/28/2016 7:09:22 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
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To: KansasConservative1

You mean GOPi as in GOP Irrelevant, right?


91 posted on 04/28/2016 8:30:05 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: wrrock

These guys making these “technical arguments” really demonstrate the big problem with GOP. They don’t understand the emotional components involved. They think that they can through some underhanded set of events in Cleveland that they can deny Trump even if he reaches the 1237. Anyone who embraces that idea might as well just give up now because the results of such a brazen usurping of the will of the people will absolutely destroy the GOP. It will be deader than dead.

While I understand some of the angst against Trump though I believe it is largely misplaced I can’t understand outside of desire of control why some hate Trump so. He’s on the verge of making GOP primary history and will have garnered more votes in a primary than anyone else ever. He’s clearly bringing people into the party and generating great enthusiasm. Right now Trump has won the nomination in all but a few very bitter unrealistic people who would rather burn the party to the ground than rally behind an out of the box America first candidate like Trump.


92 posted on 04/28/2016 9:17:49 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Free is just another word for someone else has to pay.)
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To: Bullish

I think an alternate delegate without such delusional behavior will take his seat whilst he is escorts to the newly opened Donald J Trump retreat for the Criminally Insane, where Haugland can get proper.medication


93 posted on 04/28/2016 9:21:55 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy

Do what? Ignore the preposterous inflammatory headline, all the guy said was that the numbers we hear presently are estimates/projections. And they are, people have different numbers. This is the media trying to stir up (crap), non-story.


94 posted on 04/28/2016 10:12:38 PM PDT by Impy (Did you know "Hillary" spelled backwards is "Bitch"?)
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To: wrrock

This Curly Haugland keeps burping up like a bad pepperoni pizza!


95 posted on 04/29/2016 1:43:31 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism!!)
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To: wrrock

This is old news about a jackass braying like this was a normal election cycle. Noting to see here folks move along.


96 posted on 04/29/2016 5:21:27 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

97 posted on 04/29/2016 7:06:37 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: wrrock
They're just itching for a fight in Cleveland aren't they?

Ok, challenge accepted!

98 posted on 04/29/2016 7:09:09 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: wrrock

This guy is the embodiment of why the electorate hates the political class of both parties.

Trump is the cure.

Cantorize Paul Ryan in the Wisconsin primary!


99 posted on 04/29/2016 9:02:51 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry Bear formily known as Ursus Arctos Horrilibis (or U.A. Californicus))
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To: wrrock

Then simply, they won’t matter..


100 posted on 05/03/2016 12:27:49 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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