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Republican Fissures Deepen as Feuding Candidates Rip Up Loyalty Pledge
In a sign of a fractured party splitting even further apart, all three Republican presidential candidates on Tuesday walked away from their pledge to support the winner of the nomination in the general election.
Donald Trump and John Kasich said they would no longer abide by that loyalty pledge without knowing who the nominee is, while Ted Cruz made a personal and substantive case against supporting Trump.
Read More >>Kasich quest angering GOP
A broad cross-section of the GOP is frustrated by what they view as John Kasich’s quixotic quest for the GOP presidential nomination.
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Why Donald Trump’s delegate math is even better than it looks
Deal-making Donald Trump is getting an awfully good price on his delegates.
Sure, Ted Cruz’s campaign is looking to outmaneuver him at the post-primary delegate selection conventions this spring, and Trump’s campaign says it’s planning to file a complaint with the RNC over the Louisiana delegate count. Still: so far, thanks to the varying rules in each GOP contest, Donald Trump has managed to score more delegates per actual vote than any of his primary season rivals.
Read More >>Trump’s delegate danger
Ben Carson is hitting the trail for Donald Trump this weekend, but don’t expect to see him at any rallies or town halls. In fact, don’t expect to see him at all — unless you’re a North Dakota Republican insider.
Carson is flying into Fargo to huddle with the state’s GOP activists, who are convening to elect 25 delegates to the Republican National Convention.
Read More >>Candidates Plan for Contested Convention
As the possibility of a contested GOP convention becomes more likely, the three remaining Republican candidates are planning how to eke out a win on the first or any other ballot to be held. National Journal has an interesting look at the pursuit of so-called “unbound delegates,” those who arrive at the convention without any binding pledge to support a specific candidate:
The Race Is on for Unbound Delegates
On March 12, Rich Counts won a ticket to the Republican National Convention ... Read More >>
Ted Cruz and John Kasich Begin Advertising in Wisconsin
Wisconsin is the next major battleground in the Republican presidential contest, and two of the campaigns — Senator Ted Cruz’s and Gov. John Kasich’s — are already buying television airtime.
The third candidate in the primary and the front-runner for the nomination, Donald J. Trump, has yet to invest in television time there, according to records compiled by two people tracking the media spending in the campaign.
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