Found here. Short version: Ted Cruz’s campaign team has been busy shoring up delegates ahead of time again. Washington State, to be exact – and, hey, the potential delegate pool’s already been established, well before the actual election. Amusing, what-what?
Tag: delegates
Quote of the Day, Why Does This Stuff On Delegates Need To Be Spelled Out? edition.
Doesn’t everybody know this already about the delegate process?
A senior Republican National Committee official fired back with a thinly veiled response, writing in a Friday memo to reporters that “each process is easy to understand for those willing to learn it.”
“It ultimately falls on the campaigns to be up to speed on these delegate rules,” wrote RNC communications director Sean Spicer. “Campaigns have to know when absentee ballots are due, how long early voting lasts in certain states, or the deadlines for voter registration; the delegate rules are no different.”
Apparently not. OK, OK, I admit: I have been breathing in this stuff since 2003, 2004. And there is still much in the way of delegate allocation arcana that I am not familiar with. But it’s not freaking HARD to understand. If it was hard to understand they would have thrown it all out and replaced it with something that the average politician could grasp. I’m just saying, that’s all.
Via @LPDonovan.
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