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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we need to punish the establishment.... I want to see a purge of the bushes, Romney’s and the McCain.... theses are the politicians that squandered Reagans legacy.
They’ve put more effort in this than actually ever trying to stop anything Obama has ever done.
Can this even be legal during an election cycle?
Limbaugh said that first thing Bush did in 1988 after winning the presidency was to purge all of the Reagan people. They got rid of all of the non establishment people.
Who says this? “The source”. Another timid flea-infested rodent from the GOPe wing squeaks.
There’s a ton of Islamonazi and soros $$ trying to elect Corrupt Hilliary — ( who is obviously sold out to them)-——and disrupting and undermining her political opponent’s campaign like this ( and with the agit-prop “demonstrations” and murders and so forth) is their standard operating procedure
You must really think that Trump is a weak-kneed, lily-livered neophyte - so why are you supporting him? Every time a story appears that someone, somewhere is going to stop Trump from getting the nomination, you are having the vapors to no end. If Trump is not strong enough to turn back Romney (or whoever the bogey-man of the day is), then he is going to get killed by Hillary. For that matter, even if he manages a win over Hillary, he will get eaten alive by N Korea, Iran, Russia, etc.
Either he is strong enough to win, or you should be joining the Never-Trump crowd to nominate someone who is strong enough to win.
If they are successful at picking their own VP candidate, you can be sure that impeachment proceedings will be attempted shortly after the inauguration.
“are these people just plain nuts????”
They are really being ridiculous. They don’t know how to play - time to take their balls home.
That was made a big deal after JFK was shot and his VP was also a Johnson.
Exactly!
“This may be somewhat of an IMPROVEMENT because at least it leaves Trump at the top of the ticket.”
You have that right. So have the NEVERTRUMP types given up and moving to plan B?
by N. Brian Caverly, Esq.
and Jordan S. Simon
” ... why are you supporting him?”
Why are you still here?
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