Post by Logan on Apr 30, 2016 0:34:13 GMT -6
Nebraska Sen. Sasse says Trump could still be stopped at convention
One of the leading Republican opponents to Donald Trump’s ascension as the party’s presidential front-runner suggested on Friday that it’s still possible to nominate a different candidate at the national party convention in July.
U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, of Nebraska, headlined a Polk County GOP dinner in West Des Moines on Friday night, delivering a wide-ranging speech that focused more heavily on conservative philosophy than policy or politics to a couple hundred party activists.
In an interview with The Des Moines Register, he described a historical precedent for denying the GOP nomination to Trump, who is controversial and unpopular even among Republicans but appears increasingly likely to capture the delegates needed to win the nomination on the first ballot.
“We have a presidential front-runner on the Republican side that’s only gotten about 38-39 percent of all the primary votes cast thus far,” Sasse said. “In the modern primary system … there’s been six contested conventions where the person who ended up winning the convention didn’t go in as the leader, let alone having a majority.”
Read more: www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2016/04/29/nebraska-senator-ben-sasse-says-donald-trump-could-still-stopped-republican-convention/83713654/
One of the leading Republican opponents to Donald Trump’s ascension as the party’s presidential front-runner suggested on Friday that it’s still possible to nominate a different candidate at the national party convention in July.
U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, of Nebraska, headlined a Polk County GOP dinner in West Des Moines on Friday night, delivering a wide-ranging speech that focused more heavily on conservative philosophy than policy or politics to a couple hundred party activists.
In an interview with The Des Moines Register, he described a historical precedent for denying the GOP nomination to Trump, who is controversial and unpopular even among Republicans but appears increasingly likely to capture the delegates needed to win the nomination on the first ballot.
“We have a presidential front-runner on the Republican side that’s only gotten about 38-39 percent of all the primary votes cast thus far,” Sasse said. “In the modern primary system … there’s been six contested conventions where the person who ended up winning the convention didn’t go in as the leader, let alone having a majority.”
Read more: www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2016/04/29/nebraska-senator-ben-sasse-says-donald-trump-could-still-stopped-republican-convention/83713654/