Not a Single Republican Delegate Is ‘Bound’ to Donald Trump

[ABX]

Those who claim otherwise would evade responsibility for his nomination. Let’s begin with a simple proposition: As a matter of law and history, there is not a single “bound” delegate to the Republican National Convention. Not one delegate is required to vote for Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, or any other individual who “won” votes in the primary process. Each delegate will have to make his or her own choice. They — and they alone — will choose the Republican nominee. The paragraph above contradicts much of what you’ve been told about the presidential nominating process, and it even contradicts state law in multiple jurisdictions, but state law does not govern the Republican party. The party governs itself, and according to the rules it has implemented, there is only one convention where the delegates were truly bound: 1976’s, when Gerald Ford fended off a challenge from Ronald Reagan. In every other Republican convention ever held, every delegate has been free to vote their conscience....

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[EasyAce]

A very remarkable and on-the-money article.

And before anyone comes sauntering in to crow about yet another bid to "thwart the will of the
people," we should remind ourselves that:

a) We don't know for dead last certain how many actual Republicans voted for Donaldus
Minimus in the primaries (thanks to open primares we can't even be sure how many actual
Democrats voted for Hilarious Rodent Clinton or Bernt Weenie Sandwich, for dead last certain); and,

b) "The people," for better or worse, aren't strictly of the Republican Party, never mind how many
made mischief enough in the mischievous open primaries. Until the votes in November, I don't
know the "will of the people," and you don't, either. (Allowing, of course, for the prospect that
less than fifty percent of registered voters nationwide might actually bother to vote.) Not to
mention,

c) "The will of the people" does not inherently equal the wisdom of the people.