GOP primary rigging megathread

[Mr. Morden]

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180817/kasich-campaign-gop-rigging-2020-in-favor-of-trump

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[NewYorkExpress]

Oh, for heaven's sake everyone knows you are running! Spit it out and announce already!

[HAnnA MArin County]

Oh, for heaven's sake everyone knows you are running! Spit it out and announce already!

He's probably just biding his time until Mueller wraps it up and the madman in the Kremlin Annex retires/resigns or if for some miracle he gets thrown in prison.

[junior chįmp]

Hopefully Kasich runs and sends the GOP down in flames

[Grassroots]

Hopefully Kasich runs and sends the GOP down in flames into an age of prosperity.

[mvd10]

Hopefully Kasich runs and sends the GOP down in flames into an age of prosperity.

This, but I wouldn't mind sending the current GOP down in flames either tbh

[Progressive Pessimist]

More evidence that conspiracy-mongering and concerning paranoia are endemic to Republican Party politics. When Moderate Hero Kasich starts using the "rigged" rhetoric, you know the problem isn't Trump.

[junior chįmp]

Hopefully Kasich runs and sends the GOP down in flames into an age of prosperity.

This, but I wouldn't mind sending the current GOP down in flames either tbh

Why not both fam

[TDAS04]

Not that it matters.  The GOP electorate will back Trump whether Trump rigs the primaries or not.

[pbrower2a]

Approval for Donald Trump within the GOP is at least in the 70s. so there is no need for Trump to rig any primaries.

[Mr. Morden]

Approval for Donald Trump within the GOP is at least in the 70s. so there is no need for Trump to rig any primaries.

Both the Iowa and South Carolina Republican parties are already talking about simply not holding a vote:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=296697.0

which I guess would mean that the party leadership of these states just picks their own delegates.  This is exactly what Trump said amounted to a "rigged" system back in 2016:

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-colorado-delegates-2016-4

but now he'll presumably be OK with it because it'll benefit him.

While not really specific to Trump, it's certainly the case that with the modern party systems, whenever you have an incumbent president running for reelection, there's a massive conflict of interest with the president's re-nomination, since the party chairman is de facto appointed by the president, and the national party committee usually starts operating as an arm of the president's reelection campaign before the primaries have even started.  This has been a non-issue for the past few decades, because only nobodies incapable of getting on the ballot in more than a handful of states challenged Clinton, GW Bush, and Obama for re-nomination, but it seems like it could be an issue this time.

Trump will presumably try to use the RNC as an arm of his campaign starting now, long before the primaries are held.  This seems like a problem to me, if there's to be any pretense of a primary challenger getting a fair shake, even if said challenger is almost certain to lose bigly anyway.  I actually think this could (eventually) become a big story even though, again, it's unlikely that anyone could come anywhere close to knocking off Trump for the nomination even under a "fair" system.

[Mr. Morden]

*bump*

I'll just keep this thread going re: GOP primary rigging, since it looks like this'll be an ongoing thing.  Latest:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/11/kasichs-camp-slams-gop-effort-to-head-off-primary-vs-trump-1054858

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[Ye We Can]

Hopefully Kasich runs and sends the GOP down in flames into an age of prosperity.

This, but I wouldn't mind sending the current GOP down in flames either tbh

Why not both fam

This guy gets it

[Lognog]

Hopefully Kasich runs and sends the GOP down in flames into an age of prosperity.

There is absolutely no one who could ever rescue the GOP from Trump or Trumpism

[I Can Now Die Happy]

Hopefully Kasich runs and sends the GOP down in flames

lol Kasuck can't do s*** to The Don

[Grassroots]

Hopefully Kasich runs and sends the GOP down in flames

lol Kasuck can't do s*** to The Don

You are an annoying and shameful hack.

[Lognog]

Hopefully Kasich runs and sends the GOP down in flames

lol Kasuck can't do s*** to The Don

You are an annoying and shameful hack.

he is a hack, but he is right that a primary against trump would be a huge failure

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Trump was nominated because the Republican primaries weren't rigged. And he won because the Democratic primaries were rigged.

[NYSforKennedy2024]

Hopefully Kasich runs and sends the GOP down in flames into an age of prosperity.

[Kyle Rittenhouse is a Political Prisoner]

Trump was nominated because the Republican primaries weren't rigged. And he won because the Democratic primaries were rigged.

Is there no topic that you cannot somehow manage to bring around to 2016 primary grudges?

[wildviper121]

Hopefully Kasich runs and sends the GOP down in flames

lol Kasuck can't do s*** to The Don

You are an annoying and shameful hack.

he is a hack, but he is right that a primary against trump would be a huge failure

Since when does a primary challenge have to oust the sitting president to be a success? I'm sure Kasich would consider it a success if more Republicans begin to question Donald Trump than beforehand. Kasich knows he can't win a primary challenge (besides an act of god), but that's not what the point is. The point is to protest the president.

[Mr. Morden]

Sununu not on board with the push to have the NH GOP endorse Trump before the primary takes place:

https://www.concordmonitor.com/On-the-trail-Steinhauser-2020-Kasich-22157725

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[Mr. Morden]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/south-carolina-gop-could-scrap-2020-primary-to-protect-trump

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[Mr. Morden]

At least one member of the RNC wants the organization to change the rules that allow a plurality of delegates in five states to put someone’s name into nomination:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/romneys-attack-prompts-call-to-protect-trump-from-2020-primary-challenger

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One wrinkle in any “RNC rigging” scenario is that the current chair of the RNC is Mitt Romney’s niece, and Mitt doesn’t sound keen on Trump’s renomination at the moment:

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[No War, but the War on Christmas]

Hopefully Kasich runs and sends the GOP down in flames