{"id":1986177,"date":"2023-07-30T11:53:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T15:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-gop-overhauls-primary-rules-likely-giving-trump-an-advantage\/"},"modified":"2023-07-30T11:56:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T15:56:29","slug":"california-gop-overhauls-primary-rules-likely-giving-trump-an-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-gop-overhauls-primary-rules-likely-giving-trump-an-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"California GOP changes primary rules, potentially benefiting Trump."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-gop-overhauls-primary-rules-likely-giving-trump-an-advantage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1986177&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The California Republican \u2064Party Makes Primary Rule Change to Benefit Trump<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The California\u2064 Republican Party changed\u2063 the way its primary operates on\u2062 Saturday after its\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-carolina-gop-works-to-push-back-first-in-the-south-primary\/\" title=\"South Carolina GOP strives to maintain first-in-South primary status.\">executive committee approved<\/a> a plan\u2062 widely considered to benefit former President Donald\u200d Trump\u2064 as he seeks the 2024 GOP nomination.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-pelosis-new-house-rules-package-silences-the-voice-of-republican-minority\/\" title=\"Speaker Pelosi\u2019s new House rules package silences the voice of Republican minority\">rule change<\/a>, reportedly backed by the Trump \u200dcampaign,\u200b will\u2062 change how delegates are allocated to candidates for\u200d the state\u2019s primary contest. \u2064Critics argue\u2064 the change could discourage other candidates from\u200c campaigning in the\u200d state,\u2062 while proponents say the move will \u200cdraw them in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s\u2063 vote \u2026 was a massive victory\u2063 for California\u200c Republicans who\u2063 are eager \u200bto\u200c have a say in deciding who our Party\u2019s 2024 presidential nominee will be,\u201d Jessica Millan Patterson, the\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-governor-after-censure-vote-state-party-should-focus-on-winning-races\/\" title=\"Arizona Governor After Censure Vote: State Party Should \u2018Focus On Winning Races\u2019\">state party chair<\/a>, said in a\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/cagop.org\/s\/blog\/cagop-statement-on-the-passage-of-a-presidential-delegates-rules-change-MC7FO6W6EAVJHF5O7MVJQN5O2BMQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the new rule, any Republican candidate \u200dwho receives more than 50% of the vote will receive\u200d all of\u2064 California\u2019s\u2064 delegates \u2014 169\u200d in total,\u200b more than any other state, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2023-07-29\/california-republican-primary-delegates-trump-desantis-presidential-election-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>. However, if\u200b no candidate reaches 50%, state delegates will be \u2062allocated proportionally based on how candidates performed in the statewide \u200bvote. The executive committee approved \u200cthe rule in a 53-16 vote.<\/p>\n<p>The move will likely benefit former President Trump,\u200c who consistently polls at or above 50% in the state\u200c for the primary contest. According\u200c to one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-gop-overhauls-primary-rules-likely-giving-trump-an-advantage\/\" title=\"California GOP changes primary rules, potentially benefiting Trump.\">unnamed executive committee member<\/a> who spoke with a Trump campaign official, \u2063the former president\u2019s campaign supported \u2063the plan because of his strong polling in the \u2062state, the L.A.\u2063 Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Cuccinelli, \u200cfounder of the\u2063 pro-DeSantis\u200c Never Back Down super PAC, blasted the new delegate allocation rule, calling it \u201casinine\u201d \u200cand\u200c saying it\u200b doesn\u2019t reflect the \u201cwill of or benefit voters\u200d in any state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmoke-filled\u2064 back\u2064 rooms do not reflect \u200cthe\u2062 will of or benefit voters in any state,\u201d Cuccinelli said in a\u200d statement. \u201cYet across the country games are afoot to enhance the potential outcome of primary elections for\u2064 one former president who half \u200dof \u200bthe Republican electorate no \u2063longer wants as the party leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previously, three \u2063state delegates were awarded for each congressional \u200cdistrict a candidate won. This system encouraged candidates to compete in specific geographic areas rather than the entire state.\u200c Jon Fleischman, director of\u2063 the California GOP \u200dwhen this \u2064rule was adopted over two decades ago, told\u200c the L.A. Times that candidates don\u2019t have an incentive campaign in the state under the\u2063 new rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cost \u2062to advertise statewide is too great \u200dand the impact of trying to motivate volunteers is too \u200dsmall. So \u2064they will \u200cgo \u2062to other states and \u2063ignore California in the primary, as\u2064 they ignore California\u200c in the general election,\u201d \u2063Fleischman said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>California GOP Faces Rule Change to Protect Delegates<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/cagop.org\/s\/blog\/cagop-statement-on-the-passage-of-a-presidential-delegates-rules-change-MC7FO6W6EAVJHF5O7MVJQN5O2BMQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California \u2064GOP<\/a>, the\u200d rules\u200b already on the books were not \u200d\u201cin compliance\u201d with the Republican National \u2062Convention\u2019s rules, and if they failed to overhaul its\u200c delegate allocation process, it\u200d would\u2064 have lost half of its delegates. While a heavily Democratic state, California\u2019s large\u2063 delegate count could play a significant role in choosing the\u2063 Republican \u2062presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>California Republicans will head to the \u200dpolls on Super Tuesday, March 5,\u2063 to vote for their preferred\u200d candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am grateful to \u2062the many CAGOP delegates who engaged in our Party\u2019s rules change \u200bprocess, \u2063provided insightful feedback and debated\u200d the \u2064merits of the\u2063 change to make sure that our Party landed on the best solution for all California\u200c Republicans,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cTogether, we will help the\u200c Republican Party select\u2063 the candidate who can take back \u200dthe White House and retire President Biden next November.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California GOP altered its primary process, favoring ex-President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2024 GOP nomination bid. The executive committee&#8217;s approved plan modifies delegate allocation for the state&#8217;s primary, reportedly supported by the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1530,"featured_media":1986178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}