Republican Party begins preparing for contested convention
Source: AP
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) The Republican National Committee has started preparing for a contested national convention, which would follow the primary season should no GOP candidate for president win enough delegates to secure the party's nomination.
While calling the need for such plans ultimately unlikely, several GOP leaders at the party's winter meeting in South Carolina told The Associated Press on Wednesday that such preliminary planning is nonetheless actively underway.
They stressed it had little to do with concerns about the candidacy of billionaire businessman Donald Trump, describing the early work instead as a necessary contingency given the deeply divided Republican field. With less than three weeks to go before the Feb. 1 leadoff Iowa caucuses, there are still a dozen major Republican candidates in the race.
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Are they nervous?
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)with real change.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)really stupid gaff that can not be over come. Notice how his anger is amping up,this guy has major mental things going on.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)RNC would rather Hillary win than Donald Trump.
Reter
(2,188 posts)Two sides of the same coin.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)Reter
(2,188 posts)Both establishments would go nuts.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)what we want is one thing and then there is reality of the real power elite.
Gore1FL
(21,122 posts)His republican support has a very high floor, but he has very low ceiling with the electorate. He has emboldened his enemies as much as he has entrenched his supporters.
elias49
(4,259 posts)WheelWalker
(8,954 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)not help them in the primary and in the election election.
WheelWalker
(8,954 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)...by our convention here in Philadelphia.
I'll be there to see her accept.