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Delegate allocation (congressional district delegates) While the Pennsylvania process has a winner-take-all element to it, the plan also contains a wholly unique method of selecting -- not allocating -- congressional district delegates. Unlike other loophole primary states, Pennsylvania delegate candidates have no official affiliation with a particular presidential candidate or their campaign. That is official in that there is no pledge process associated with filing to run as a delegate candidate. As the delegate candidates are running as uncommitted -- unofficially pledged to a candidate or not -- they are treated as unbound by the RNC as a result. The...

After his resounding victory in New York Tuesday night, Republican front-runner Donald Trump looks ahead to a series of primaries in the Northeast, including Pennsylvania, where he will deploy a new strategy that includes aggressively courting delegates, a tactic he had previously and vocally panned as unnecessary and part of a "rigged" system. The hard push for support from individual delegates is a shift for Trump who has been outmaneuvered by rival Sen. Ted Cruz, but one that has proven necessary as if he is to ensure he has the support of delegates at the Republican nominating convention in July....

A senior adviser to Donald Trump held an organizing call with the campaign's Pennsylvania delegate candidates Sunday night, another sign of the Trump operation's increasingly sophisticated ground game. Paul Manafort, the campaign's convention guru, ran the call and talked to all 41 of Trump's congressional district delegate candidates in Pennsylvania ahead of Tuesday's crucial primary. The call was organized so that the delegates "knew they had the support of the campaign and its senior leadership team," a source on the call told CNN. Manafort took questions from the group, including basics such as what the delegates should do in case...

NBC's Hallie Jackson reports Cruz has changed his focus to Pennsylvania and making a play for the state's unbound delegates. Jackson, the network's Cruz correspondent, said even if Cruz has a third place finish in Pennsylvania, they'll win more than half the delegates. ... "Even if they come in a distant third, a top campaign aide tells me, they will still, they believe, pick up more than half the delegates there." More, with video

At some point after 8 p.m. on April 26, the cable TV networks will display a check mark next to the picture and name of the Republican presidential candidate who got the most votes in Pennsylvania - Ted Cruz, John Kasich, or Donald Trump. This time, plenty of people will be paying attention. Usually, the Pennsylvania primary comes long after the suspense has left the presidential race. But the primary is poised to have an impact this year, because the math makes it virtually impossible for Trump, the GOP front-runner, to win enough delegates to wrap up the nomination beforehand.