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South Carolina: a case study in how Trump is being driven crazy
https://www.yahoo.com/news/south-carolina-a-case-study-in-how-trump-is-being-201352012.htmlDonald Trump continued this week to lose ground to Sen. Ted Cruz in the race for second-ballot delegates, whose votes will matter in a contested convention. In the latest setback, a caucus in one of the seven congressional districts in South Carolina picked delegates who are likely to support Cruz if the national convention goes to multiple ballots....
However, if the national convention isn’t settled on the first ballot, it looks likely that many of the 50 delegates from the Palmetto State would desert Trump, who came in first in the primary, but with only 33 percent of the vote. The national convention will go to multiple ballots if Trump does not win at least 1,237 delegates out of the 2,472 available from 50 states, six U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia. Currently, Trump has 743 delegates to Cruz’s 545 and 143 for Kasich.
Only 12 of the state’s 50 delegates have been chosen so far, counting the state party chairman, Matt Moore, and the state’s two members of the Republican National Committee, Glenn McCall and Cindy Costa, who serve automatically. Over the next few weeks, the remaining four congressional districts will caucus to choose three delegates each. Then on May 7, 870 delegates to the state convention will chose an additional 26 national convention delegates.
Of the 12 picked so far, only one — Jerry Rovner of Georgetown County — is considered likely to keep voting for Trump beyond the first ballot. State insiders believe the other 11 will desert the New Yorker once they are no longer bound. And they say that’s likely to be true for many or most of the delegates yet to be named.
However, if the national convention isn’t settled on the first ballot, it looks likely that many of the 50 delegates from the Palmetto State would desert Trump, who came in first in the primary, but with only 33 percent of the vote. The national convention will go to multiple ballots if Trump does not win at least 1,237 delegates out of the 2,472 available from 50 states, six U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia. Currently, Trump has 743 delegates to Cruz’s 545 and 143 for Kasich.
Only 12 of the state’s 50 delegates have been chosen so far, counting the state party chairman, Matt Moore, and the state’s two members of the Republican National Committee, Glenn McCall and Cindy Costa, who serve automatically. Over the next few weeks, the remaining four congressional districts will caucus to choose three delegates each. Then on May 7, 870 delegates to the state convention will chose an additional 26 national convention delegates.
Of the 12 picked so far, only one — Jerry Rovner of Georgetown County — is considered likely to keep voting for Trump beyond the first ballot. State insiders believe the other 11 will desert the New Yorker once they are no longer bound. And they say that’s likely to be true for many or most of the delegates yet to be named.
edit: "driven crazy"? That's not a drive, that's a putt!
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