So, if a state doesn't have a primary. are delegates still allowed to vote at the convention?

[MoonRiver]

Just curious, cause in my state the GOP idiots are not having their usual primary.

[RainCaster]

1. Who cares? The big issue is - do the electoral votes count?

[Codeine]

9. Of course they do.

Primaries are completely unrelated to the election and aren’t required at all.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Some states still have caucuses.

Sometimes a party doesn't have either, especially in a year where the incumbent president is running for re-election. Delegates to the national convention always get selected some way or another.

Each party has their own rules and regulations, at both the state and national level.

[Hortensis]

3. Well, asked another way, did those states decide to

abandon their peoples' rights to have a say in who will be our presidential candidates?

[jberryhill]

7. States don't decide how parties select their candidates

[Codeine]

10. There is no such enumerated right.

The parties are free to run whomever they choose.

[Hortensis]

12. You both missed my point. Parties will send delegates.

[Codeine]

13. Of course they will.

That wasn’t in question.

[Lochloosa]

4. It's their primary and their convention. Sure.

[lame54]

5. Those states prostitutes need to eat too

[trof]

8. NAILED IT!

[Eugene]

6. State Republican parties are making "one-time" rule changes.

The latest example is California. If California law keeps Trump off the primary ballot, he will still get delegates.

California GOP opens alternative pathway for 2020 delegates (Associated Press)

https://apnews.com/ee5adc940b0f48c498751d8df9642478

[Retrograde]

11. Their convention, their rules (nt)