Posted on 07/09/2016 12:47:35 PM PDT by springwater13
Anti-Trump delegates are preparing a rules change proposal that would chart a path for delegates to choose their own vice presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention, instead of voting for Donald Trump’s choice.
A draft proposal obtained by BuzzFeed News outlines several changes to Rule 40 that would make it easier for delegates to reject whomever Trump picks as his running mate and present their own alternative. BuzzFeed News has learned that it will be presented at the Rules Committee meeting next week in Cleveland ahead of the convention.
Already, delegates are technically not bound to vote for the nominee’s choice for vice president. But in the past, vice presidential picks have largely been automatically ratified by the convention after being chosen by the nominee.
This year is different, as a vocal contingent of anti-Trump delegates to the convention are searching for ways to stop Trump from being nominated — or, failing that, to at least assert control over the party’s vice presidential nominee.
The proposed rules change centers around Rule 40, which has already been a topic of much discussion this year. One of the rule’s clauses requires a candidate to win the support of the majority of delegates in eight states in order to be considered for the nomination. The rule was changed from five to eight states in 2012 to prevent Ron Paul’s name from being given as an option. Changing that rule would allow non-Trump candidates to be considered for the nomination on the floor.
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are these people just plain nuts????
Yes that is exactly right!
WTH is wrong with these people? Talk about sore losers!
So who is their choice?
Who is it, Howdy Doody?
This might have been their plan all along... Romney’s Super PAC “Our Principles PAC” set out to get as mant establishment delegates as possible... Just like JFK in 1960 and just like Ronald Reagan in 1980, they want to get an establishment person in the VP slot. FYI, I do not consider Newt establishment. If the establishment delegates do not get their VP slot then this will be the first time the president and the VP are not establishment candidates an extremely long amount of time.
Probably that staunch Republican and hero of conservative values, Yeb!
They are hell bent on giving this election to hillary and we can kiss our a##es goodbye
More banana republic stuff!
Hillary?
These Hillary-loving turds seem to have a lot of “plans”. How about a plan to win the White House, you whining punks?
This may be somewhat of an IMPROVEMENT because at least it leaves Trump at the top of the ticket.
The only problem that Trump will have, if his VP is a ‘moderate’, will be the same problem Reagan had in 1981 - and that is staying alive.
Oh, God, no. Maybe she’ll fall off the stage again.
These BAS**RDS never give up do they. More horse heads need to be in hotel room beds.
The Cruzers are still playacting at picking Vice Presidential candidates? Does Carly get to return to the part, or will they seek out a new person for the role? This will never get passed by a majority of the delegates, so I guess whatever they want to do to entertain themselves is fine…It’s too bad they couldn’t just focus on defeating Hillary though.
>>Talk about sore losers!
They want to be losers. The globalist game is played best with a Democrat president and Republican Congress. The Democrat president keeps the hopes of the productive people low so the Globalists can pay as little as possible and scare the workers into working like galley slaves. The Republican Congress blocks certain bills to make the productive people think that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. But there isn’t. The value of work continues to decline until everyone is demanding some sort of basic living stipend and then the Globalists can reduce pay to almost nothing since its really just a tip over and above the BLS.
Meanwhile the Fed keeps pumping out the fiat currency and the Chinese keep propping up the world’s newest communist regime—even if it is communism with a little bit of a private property twist just to keep the American comrades fat, dumb, and happy...and productive!
More nonsense from the nevertrumpers.
Exactly! Think paul ryno.
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