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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

There is one problem with this - Trump didn’t start getting his delegate slates together until last week, and he only has two more weeks to finish. He has to find 6 delegates in each congressional district (three delegates, three alternates). They must be registered Republicans, and they must be able to pay a $900 participation fee out of their own pockets (the campaign cannot pay the fee.) In addition, they have to be able to afford the cost of the trip to Cleveland (travel, food, lodging) as well as a mandatory delegate meeting in LA a month before the convention.

Now, in some places this will not be a problem. But in a lot of congressional districts, there are very few Republicans to begin with. And a lot of those districts are low-income (south Central LA, the central valley, etc). So finding 6 Republicans who support Trump and can afford the cost of being a delegate might be tough to do in 2 weeks. It took the Cruz campaign almost 6 months to find all the delegates - and they had a much larger operation in CA than Trump currently has.


42 posted on 04/21/2016 1:08:39 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: CA Conservative; Jim Robinson

Thanks CA Conservative,

With over 5 million registered republicans in CA, surely the campaign will find enough delegates for Donald Trump in California.

I bet the FR owner, Jim Robinson, knows a few republicans that would be honored to be Trump delegates.


60 posted on 04/21/2016 1:28:11 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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