Can someone explain to me how states can pass when voting at a convention? Is this legal?
They want to be the one that pushes him over.
Can someone explain to me how states can pass when voting at a convention? Is this legal?
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They’ve been doing it forever to allow a certain state to put the nominee over the top. The GOP makes its own rules, so it’s legal.
There are few federal laws covering how a political party conducts its business and none, as far as I know, governing how they choose a presidential candidate in convention. For once the Republicans displayed a negative intelligence, meaning most of them weren’t stupid enough to absolutely defy the wishes of the voters in their primaries.
Yes a fit is an agreed upon process so that the home state can provide the count for the nomination
Every convention I have ever seen does this
It’s a tactic used to try to be the state that causes the nominee to reach the number of votes that puts them over the top. They’ll get called on again.
They do that so NY (his home state) could put him over the top. It’s planned.
It is legal, yes.
In the old days it was done quite a bit.
Basically it is a claim by the delegation chairman that the votes aren’t counted yet.