Posted on 03/23/2016 9:01:09 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Meet Curly Haugland, former chairman of the North Dakota Republican party and current Republican national committeeman. Haugland is one of just 112 delegates who will arrive unbound to this summer’s Republican convention in Cleveland, free to cast a vote for any candidate he chooses on a first ballot because North Dakota does not hold a primary or caucus. That makes him a particularly valuable asset to the still-dueling presidential campaigns.
Haugland, a Bismarck businessman and a member of the powerful RNC committee that will set the rules governing this year’s convention, says voters may be in for a rude awakening when they learn that the votes cast by delegates on the floor of the convention — rather than those cast in primaries and caucuses — actually determine the Republican nominee. “The results on Fox are just a participation ribbon,” he says. That’s true: Regardless of who wins each state’s nominating contest, a candidate does not become the party’s standard-bearer until he receives a majority of the delegate vote on the convention floor.
The behind-the-scenes efforts by presidential candidates to win the allegiance of delegates such as Haugland are now attracting as much press coverage as the campaign itself. But those privy to the internal workings of the RNC and the delegate-selection process — many of whom agreed to speak on background to preserve their relationships with the candidates — say that the task of wooing individual delegates is probably too complex for an active presidential campaign to successfully manage, and that it’s unlikely to matter much. That’s because the delegates, who are elected through processes dictated by state-party bureaucracies, are themselves likely to be long-time Republican insiders more partial to Cruz than Trump.
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Without reading my guess is more voters and delegates dislike Trump than like him and Trump obviously has not vetted his delegates to date.
Deluded Cruzies having day dreams pretending their is still race. It’s over. Trump won after Cruz went 0 for 6 on Super Tuesday.
Now the GOPe is just trying to frame the nom as a contested take over by Trump. No way they blow up the party for a sure loser like Ted Cruz.
I for one am fine with the demise of the GOP as it exists today. Sooner the better.
If the cost of burning down the establishment is a Hillary presidency, so be it. Why does it matter if we have a Democratic president if the RINO congress rubber stamps all things Democrat and rejects all things conservatives.
"Why a Contested Convention Favors guarantees Hillary......there fixed it.
Buh-Bye, Teddy Bug. Your time has run out. You have been measured, and found wanting.
Oh, and if you don't want Trump to ravage and pillage your Goldman-Sachs hag of a wife, then leave Trump's wife out of it. Pass it on...
Interesting.....and looks to be a complicated endeavor which Trump will likely fight against regardless of the rules.....he tends to ignore rules.
If the Sleazeball GOPe hands the nomination to a candidate with 400-500 less delegates than Trump, I will not only Never vote Republican again, I will, in protest, vote the straight Democrat ticket, forever....
A contested convention favors Hillery, and guarantees her the presidency.
LMAO!!!!!! Trump is KILLING him!
If the Cheap Labor Express gets their amnesty candidate by shenanigans at the convention, I will become a kamikazi voter and vote for every Democrat on my ballot forevermore.
GOP-RIP
More NR bs/garbage posing as an oped.
The NR, RNC/GOPe/Neocon Uniparty elite thugs, have been the overseers of the Faux Conservative plantations since 1961.
These overseers keep trying to trick/betray/control us to stay on/in their faux conservative plantations by selecting their ilk/puppets as our candidates. They lie and promise us conservatism and when elected $crew us daily in congress and as POTUS! NR and their handpicked tv/radio hosts have pushed their lies for decades.
In NH, SC, FL, Arizona and Nevada, Trump and his voters ignored them. His voters then voted big time for Trump. They won bigtime and broke the rules of the plantation masters by voting for Trump in NH. This is scaring the hell out of our former neocon RNC/GOPe masters of the faux conservative plantations and their ilk, the Club for Growth.
It is wonderful to see this decades old, long standing corrupt political system disintegrating right before our eyes. This corrupt system hates working Americans. It rewards illegals and those who bring them into America to freeload off the American workers slaving in the faux conservative plantation.
We are seeing a paradigm shift with us selecting our Presidential Candidate, instead of the RNC/GOPe/Uniparty elites, who hate us, selecting our candidates.
There is a Black Swan event occurring with the daily suicidal self wrought destruction of the RNC/GOPe, UniParty, Open Border Thugs, DC faux pundits, Faux News, ABCNNBCBS, NT and the left wing fish wraps. Something similar may be happening with the DEMes.
Many of us are looking forward to seeing the broken bones, drying blood and entrails of the Lying RNC/GOP Open Borders Elite, The Club for Growth, the UniParty, their DC faux conservative pundits, their mediots, their phoney pollsters and focus groups, Faux, ABCNNBCBS, their hired tv and radio hacks strewn across the primary states as much as our victories in those states.
We have escaped from their faux conservative plantations. We are not going back for more lies, abuse and mistreatment from our former RNC/GOPe masters.
We will vote for Trump and destroy them! Adios Bob!
Just Breath!
I won’t vote for a contested candidate.
No, it wouldn’t favor Cruz. It would absolutely favor Trump, but it does offer Cruz a bit more chance than the very slight chance he has now.
The ‘76 GOP convention was ‘contested’, but uncommitted delegates put Ford over the top on the first ballot. I would predict the same outcome for Trump if Trump falls just short of a committed majority.
It’s strange to me that FR seems down on Cruz. He has very good conservative credentials. Even though the primary battle has been fierce, I’m thrilled that we have two very good possibilities for the Republican nomination - Trump and Cruz. I like Cruz because of his constitutionalist orientation, and Trump because he’s really sticking it to the uniparty. I personally would prefer Cruz, but Trump would also be a good President of the United States of America.
Right the blow hard donor from ND who bought his way onto the RNC is the key not the millions of voters.
Someone is in for a big surprise in Cleveland when their discover their “party” is run by the state delegations, not blow hard media darlings from small 3 electoral vote states.
Cruz is faring far better in projections than Trump versus Hillary in the general election and the polls bear this out:
Bull***. Democrats have no clue who Ted Cruz is, one look at this video used as an ad, and away goes Teddy Down the Drain
¡Teb! has joined the Cartel he once railed against.
He has jumped on board the Cheap Labor Express.
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