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Go ahead, Donald, get 1,237; it won't matter: RNC delegate
CNBC ^ | April 22, 2016 | Lori Ann LaRocco

Posted on 04/23/2016 11:07:04 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

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.

Curly Haugland, a longstanding RNC official and an unbound delegate from North Dakota who will be on the convention rules committee in July, told CNBC that attaining 1,237 during the primaries does not secure the nomination.

"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."

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; donaldtrump; election2016; newyork; presidentdonaldtrump; rnc; teamromney; teamsoros; trump
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To: MichaelCorleone

It has taken me decades to unterstand why we have open primarys and close primarys caucuses and the like.

Short answer....
The Stat parys will nominate the candidate and you have a vote in the general election.

Most states allow votes from the people in the primarys but it is purely up to the state and the party to set the rules.

I dont have to like it but that is how it has been forever.

Lincoln got in on a 3rd ballot in a contested covention in 18 whatever


141 posted on 04/23/2016 3:16:02 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Just mythoughts

Give it up, you birthers were annoying enough after Obama got his second term (it aint sticking) but yer crazy to use that loser argument on one of OURS.

It has been ruled in court numerous times


142 posted on 04/23/2016 3:25:23 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: MichaelCorleone

Mike I effect change every day just by existing.

That is what is demanded of us


143 posted on 04/23/2016 3:28:30 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: mylife
Give it up, you birthers were annoying enough after Obama got his second term (it aint sticking) but yer crazy to use that loser argument on one of OURS. It has been ruled in court numerous times

Ah, dearie, I know what 'natural born' US citizenship is, and I also know that our corrupted courts divined a right to kill the unborn, and also due to Cruz neglect that a Texas case Lawrence... went unchecked to the unholy supremes that divined a Constitutional right for same sex hook ups to be called a marriage. I have had enough of Texas politics.

144 posted on 04/23/2016 3:28:31 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Just mythoughts

Cute the way you tacked on that Liar Ted thing again.

Don never lied, Hillary never lied Bernie never lied /S

What ever happened with Teds’s girlfriends? oh... that was a lie


145 posted on 04/23/2016 3:32:28 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: mylife

Ted Cruz will NEVER EVER be a ‘natural born’ US citizen... NOT an attack just a fact. You love him you keep him. Ted Cruz does NOT even keep his oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution... YOU think he cares about YOUR Constitutional ‘rights’... dream on... Ted Cruz is LBJ in a Cuban face.


146 posted on 04/23/2016 3:40:13 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I guarantee those GOPers who discount Trump’s 1237+ delegate win will rue the day they snatched victory away from a contest that was won by the rules. If their determination to support their candidate means throwing the election to Hillary, they will do it. If they do, there will be hell to pay for the Republican Party.

How do they expect to do it? Will they buy off the Trump delegates with call girls? Will they pay for all their evening dinners and entertainment? Will they slip a G note with their hand shake? How about a private jet ride to Paris for a dinner in an expensive four star restaurant or a Mediterranean cruise? How about this one: How about a Thailand Adult Sex Vacation? Bank on it: There is no action beneath the corruption of those who oppose Trump.

If all their crap and corruption does not succeed, will they do in Trump like they did Robert F. Kennedy? They are the type that will destroy America to hold onto their brass rings.


147 posted on 04/23/2016 3:41:17 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Just mythoughts

This is our 3rd run at that wasted contest.

Thems the facts

If Obie was eligible Ted is eligible


148 posted on 04/23/2016 3:42:32 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: mylife
This is our 3rd run at that wasted contest. Thems the facts If Obie was eligible Ted is eligible

Live in your fantasy world.... Trump forced the Obama crew to produce a born in the USA birth certificate for Obama. NONE will ever produce such for Teddy. MY problem is that my introduction to Ted Cruz was, he followed the 'original intent' of the Constitution.... Well except he thinks he is entitled to be Obama II in all stripes. What part of a 'natural born' Canadian, Harvard Law school grad, junior senator, escapes your common sense brain. Cruz's problem is there is NO groundswell for the first Cuban Canadian born president.

149 posted on 04/23/2016 3:48:28 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Just mythoughts

If me and the pregnant wife are vacationing in France and she delivers the baby on French soil and the French government extends citizenship THAT does NOT delete American citizenship.


150 posted on 04/23/2016 3:48:49 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Just mythoughts

STop fighting your own team brother


151 posted on 04/23/2016 3:51:13 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: mylife
If me and the pregnant wife are vacationing in France and she delivers the baby on French soil and the French government extends citizenship THAT does NOT delete American citizenship.

Ah but we are NOT talking about citizenship, we are talking about natural born citizenship... YOU and YOUR pregnant wife are the only two people that can bestow 'natural born' US citizenship upon YOUR child... and if you do not have the foresight to do it on US soil then YOUR offspring is NOT natural born...

I am yet to be convinced that Ted Cruz is actually an American citizen, period. He will NEVER EVER be a natural born US citizen.

152 posted on 04/23/2016 3:53:09 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: mylife

If Teddy’s eligibility is contested in court, I hope they drag out Zer0’s Hawaiian birth certificate to prove the true precedence that allowed an illegible person to win the White House.


153 posted on 04/23/2016 3:54:06 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Just mythoughts

Ted Cruz aint Obama and Donald aint Ronnie


154 posted on 04/23/2016 3:54:47 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: mylife

If you want to bring that baby back to American soil you have to go to the American embassy and register his birth because the French hospital is not giving him a US birth certificate

Mama Cruz apparently never did that with little Ted

How she brought him back over the US border, with what paperwork, is yet to be discovered

The Governor of Maine had 2 children born in Canada and he had to get the US Embassy to naturalize both of them


155 posted on 04/23/2016 3:57:30 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: jonrick46

I dont care who does what and who does who, I just want the constitution and states rights


156 posted on 04/23/2016 3:58:37 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: mylife
Ted Cruz aint Obama and Donald aint Ronnie

But of course, Cruz is playing like he is a Christian... but he is still NOT eligible to hold the office of president. Cruz could not even get McConnel of the Senate to give him a Senate resolution that Cruz was eligible to hold the office of president... Hence Cruz called McConnell in public fit of rage a 'liar'...

157 posted on 04/23/2016 4:01:07 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: PJ-Comix

people are just looking for stuff to get all spun the hell up about. some semi-nobody from freaking north dakota has no juice whatsoever. he can blather all he wants, and no one cares . . . well, except for the people freaking out in this thread.


158 posted on 04/23/2016 4:01:09 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: silverleaf

I have personal experience in this BS

I tried to emigrate to Australia in the 80s and I have a new Indian family now it the states

This shit aint the way they say it is in papers


159 posted on 04/23/2016 4:03:38 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: musicman

put your false threats away. I didn’t say anything even faintly resembling that.


160 posted on 04/23/2016 4:05:10 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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