How does a brokered convention work? If Cruz wins Iowa and Trump wins all the rest, what are they brokering?
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How does a brokered convention work? If Cruz wins Iowa and
Trump wins all the rest, what are they brokering?
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You have to win a majority of the delegates on the first ballot.
If not then it becomes a brokered convention and delegates are released.
And the barganing begins......
Delegates to the convention: 2,470
Delegates needed to win the nomination (50%+1): 1,236
Many states award proportional delegates. Which means if a candidate wins say 40% of vote in the state, he gets only 40% of delegates, not all delegates.
So it is conceivable Trump could win 49 states and still not go over 50% of delegates. To complicate matters more, there are so called super delegates, which are party bigwigs, who are additional delegates on top of state delegates.
They're brokering fraud. Btw, have you ever seen how these Iowa caucuses work? It's freaking bizarre, all these unknown and no doubt hand picked insiders run around choosing their little committees and then sit around and each one gives speeches about why they think their guy is best. It's a bunch of BS.
IIRC the are required to vote as “electors” on the first ballot. If there is not a clear winner then they can vote for whomever they like. I believe that the strategy rests on getting the electors to not vote for who they have committed to by virtue of their election. So if these electors were to jump ship on the first ballot, it opens the flood gates to a “brokered” convention.....in which case the base revolts and leaves the party.
The gopE changed the rules. On Super Tuesday in March all the states’ delegates will be divided. It will not be a “winner take all”.