http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/ted-cruz-republican-national-convention-rules-223175 6 convention fights for the GOP's future
Ted Cruz's allies are coming to Cleveland ready for a set of high-stakes fights over the party's rules.
By Kyle Cheney
05/14/16 07:48 AM EDT
Updated 05/14/16 09:05 AM EDT
Ted Cruz has given up on running as the Republican party’s presidential nominee, but he hasn’t given up on running the Republican party.
When Cruz heads to Republican National Convention this summer, he’ll bring a list of ideas for changing the way the party governs itself and picks its presidential nominee. He’ll also bring plenty of backup: hundreds of delegates who were handpicked by the Cruz campaign. The delegates were assembled as part of Cruz’s now aborted bid to capture the party GOP nomination in Cleveland, but now they’ll be key allies on the rules committees and other panels that will set the party’s ground rules for the next four years.
Cruz is eyeing another presidential run in 2020, but it’s about more than that. Along with setting the rules of the GOP primary, the party will also hash out its official policy platform — and even to determine how much power the Republican National Committee has to make new rules of its own.
But Cruz isn’t the only one coming to the convention with an eye to the future. Donald Trump and his allies, fresh off a stunning primary run, have their own ideas about what's next for the party. As do the parts of the party responsible for the 2013 GOP autopsy, which called for Republicans to consider immigration reform and take a more inclusive tone in its interaction with women, Latinos and other minorities.
They’re all coming to Cleveland, ready to rehash old fights and pick new ones — all against the backdrop of a party that has been turned on its head by the most unlikely of nominees. Here are the marquee battles.
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