Whatever name the
RNC wants to call it a Contested Convention, Open Convention or
Brokered Convention
it really should be called Screw the Voter Convention we will nominate our
choice.
While they are
preparing for a brokered convention are they preparing for a riot if the candidate
with most delegate votes is denied the nomination? Are they preparing for
thousand upon thousand renouncing the Republican Party and re-registering with
another party?
They changed rule
40 in 2012 to accommodate Romney as the nominee to oust Ron Paul.
If a candidate goes
into the convention minimally shy of the now required 1237 delegate change the
rules again. be
ABC News @ABC RNC Chair on contested convention: "We’re preparing for that
possibility" http://abcn.ws/1UdTAf3 #ThisWeek
RNC Chair: 'We're Preparing for
Possibility' of Contested Convention
RNC Chair Reince Priebus tells
"This Week" he's preparing for the possibility of a contested
convention. - See the whole picture with ABC News.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said
he no longer thinks a contested convention is a remote possibility and party
officials are trying to be transparent to “take the mystery away from what an
open convention looks like,” he said on ABC News' “This Week” Sunday.
“I think it’s possible and we’re preparing for that
possibility,” he said.
If a candidate does not have the 1,237 delegates required to win
the nomination outright, it sets up a contested convention, during which some
delegates are freed up in subsequent rounds of voting to choose whomever they
want.
Priebus said it was a common practice for party leadership to
continue voting until someone reaches a majority of delegates.
“There’s nothing magical about the number. It’s 50 percent plus
one,” he said, adding that it’s “highly unlikely” that anyone but the three
current candidates still running for president becomes the GOP nominee in
Cleveland.
“I can't 100 percent guarantee that. But I can't imagine right
now sitting here believing it would be anyone but the three remaining
candidates,” Priebus said.
Priebus also addressed the Stop Trump movement, and said the
possibility of running a third party candidate against Donald Trump,
if he becomes the Republican nominee, would doom the chances of the Republican party winning
the general election.
“But it isn't likely and it's probably too late and there is no
definitive answer right now as to who the nominee is going to be of our party,”
Priebus said.
