Posted on 04/10/2016 4:31:43 PM PDT by Kaslin
New Yorkers head to the polls on April 19 to vote in their primary election. Two pretty high-profile Donald Trump surrogates, however, will be shut out of the polls: Ivanka and Eric Trump.
New York, as it turns out, has a "closed" primary--and neither Ivanka or Eric are registered Republicans.
Donald Trumps three oldest children have campaigned with their father and served as surrogates during the presidential race. But only one of them is actually a member of the party Trump hopes to lead.
Records from the New York State Board of Elections show that neither Ivanka Trump nor Eric Trump is enrolled in a political party. Trumps oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is a Republican.
In what is certainly an unusual election law, New York voters had to register with a political party by October 9 in order to vote in the 2016 primary. New York is unique in this extremely early requirement. First-time voters had until March 25 to affiliate with a political party to be eligible for the primary. Ivanka and Eric are not affiliated with any political party. (Donald Jr. is a registered Republican, and no voter information exists for Tiffany Trump. The youngest Trump child, Barron, is 10-years-old and ineligible to vote.)
This is a pretty head-scratching slip-up--one would think that someone would have made sure that everyone associated with the Trump campaign would at least be eligible to vote for him in the primary election.
Classy comment. You must be a Cruz fan boi. WTH is a sigh of “relieve” anyway?
They are still more Republican than Cruz and Cruz’s friend Romney.
Why would the Trump kids vote for Cruz? They’re obviously well educated and very intelligent.
Yeah, well this 52 year long registered Republican who has voted Republican in every election since 1964 will remain a registered Republican only until after the California primary in June.
The leadership of the Republican party has proven to be a bunch of corrupt bastards. Come late June, my wife and I will be changing our registration to Independent. I have two words for the Republican leadership, and they are not Happy Birthday.
They are in panic mode now and not necessarily because of Trump, although he helped to jump start it.
My point is there are way more of us than there is of them.
As I’ve said before, Mr. Trump would be just as successful running as a democrat.
I could not vote in our state’s Republican primary since I went Independent after the NY23 fiasco is 2009. That’s where the GOP candidate was losing to the Tea Party candidate, dropped out, and told his supporters to vote for the Dem, who subsequently won. That told me all I needed to know about the GOP and nothing has changed since.
This, along with Trumps poor ground game, will be blamed on Cruz, the establishment or both.
I only know that you have to switch in NY 25 days before the previous general election because I wanted to switch to the Dem party to vote in local primaries here in Brooklyn in 2005 (there is no local Republican party in Brooklyn) after I moved here in 2004 and didn’t switch in time. I seriously doubt anyone else knows it.
BUT, this meant I knew to switch back to the GOP back in July 2015 when I saw a competitive GOP primary on the table. Maybe the Trump kids should have been smarter, but I doubt hardly anyone knows about this rule except for me.
Btw, there will be plenty of Republicans who won’t be able to vote in the NY Primary in 2016, and don’t be so sure they’re all Trump supporters (I know a couple of specific Cruz supporters in Brooklyn who are registered Dem because of local elections). What do you think happens to the voters like Sean Hannity (though he’ll vote for Trump) who are registered to the Conservative Party. They’re out of luck too.
Yeah, it’s an option in NY. About 20% of voters all told.
Congratulations! Yea, not always good to say everything you think to your spouse.
You are talking about personal choices. Considering the crapola tactics in Colirado and other places I would point out that some don’t take the votes of citizens to be very meaningful
And? Many here claiming to be done as registered Republicans and they are usually commiserated with....
“Theyre obviously well educated and very intelligent.”
They may be but your not. It was a joke. You didn’t get it,
that spells dumb.
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