{"id":2210767,"date":"2024-04-01T16:06:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-delawares-delegates-were-assigned-before-the-contest-ever-happened\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T16:06:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T20:06:35","slug":"why-delawares-delegates-were-assigned-before-the-contest-ever-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-delawares-delegates-were-assigned-before-the-contest-ever-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Delaware&#8217;s delegates were appointed prior to the competition commencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fwhy-delawares-delegates-were-assigned-before-the-contest-ever-happened%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=2210767&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--><p>Delaware\u200c canceled its primary contests\u200b due to the lack of serious competition in both \u2064Republican \u200dand Democratic races for president. Despite \u200cvoters \u2062not being able\u2064 to cast \u200dballots for\u200c Joe Biden \u200dor Donald Trump, the \u2063state still \u2062has delegates to \u200dsend to the respective party conventions. The cancellation saved taxpayers \u200d$1.5 million, a rare move as most\u200d states proceed with primaries despite \u2062costs. Delaware canceled its primary contests due to the lack of significant \u200ccompetition in the Republican \u200band Democratic races for president. This decision\u2063 means\u2062 voters won&#8217;t \u200cget to vote for Joe Biden or Donald Trump. However, the \u2062state still needs to send delegates to\u2063 the party conventions, with \u200dthe cancellation saving\u2064 taxpayers\u2063 $1.5\u2063 million,\u200d an uncommon move\u200d compared \u200dto most states.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/delaware\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Delaware<\/a> canceled its primary contests earlier this month when it became clear there was no serious competition in either the Republican or Democratic races for president. <\/p>\n<p>Voters won\u2019t be casting ballots for either President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> or former President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> on Tuesday. But the state still has a handful of delegates to send to the respective party\u2019s conventions this year to put a seal of approval on each candidate representing their parties in November. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some key things to know about one contest that won\u2019t happen on April 2.<\/p>\n<h2>How did Delaware cancel the primary?<\/h2>\n<p>The First State canceled its Republican primary contest after former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley\u2019s departure from the race left dozens of states with only Trump as an option for their primary election. Without a viable alternative, Delaware called off the contest and assigned its 16 delegates to Trump. Canceling the Republican primary saved taxpayers nearly $1.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Political strategist Josh Putnam told the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/06\/us\/politics\/state-primaries-haley-out-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>New York Times<\/a><\/em>  states will typically go on with the primary election as planned, despite the costs. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be unusual for states to come out and say, \u2018Yeah, we\u2019re not going to have a primary after all,\u2019 at this point,\u201d Putnam said. \u201cI would be shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Delaware, Feb. 9 was the withdrawal date to remove candidates from the ballot,\u00a0but lawmakers suspended the rules by passing legislation and getting it signed by the governor. Under normal conditions, there is only a one-week difference between the filing deadline and the withdrawal date. <\/p>\n<p>For the Democratic primary election, incumbent President Joe Biden was the only candidate available. Typically, states will opt out of running a primary with an incumbent as a contender. In the case of New Hampshire, a primary was run, but Biden wasn\u2019t on the ballot, as he didn\u2019t file in the state\u2019s early voting contest, making him the first incumbent in half a century to do so. He won the primary election as a write-in. <\/p>\n<h2>Where will the delegates go?<\/h2>\n<p>The state\u2019s 16 primary delegates will automatically be assigned to Trump. The same will happen for all of the state\u2019s primary elections to come. Despite this, it is unlikely for other states to follow Delaware\u2019s lead in canceling their primary elections. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not an authoritarian country in which we just cancel and nothing happens,\u201d Daniel Schlozman, a political scientist, told the <em>New York Times<\/em>. \u201cThat is changing the system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, skipping primary elections does happen. During the 2020 election, the GOP canceled six state primaries and caucuses. And in 2012, 10 Democratic state parties canceled their primary when President Barack Obama was running for his second term. Delaware is the only state to cancel a primary this election cycle thus far, making it an anomaly. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>States still left to run their primary races include Oregon, Wyoming, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut. <\/p>\n<p>The last primary election will be held on June 4, with states Montana, New Mexico, New Jersey, and South Dakota holding contests just a few weeks before the Republican National Convention. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delaware scrapped its primary contests this month due to the lack of significant competition in the Republican and Democratic races for president. Consequently, voters won&#8217;t be able to vote for President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump. Despite this, the state must still send a few delegates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2542,"featured_media":2210768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24087849485777-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24087849485777-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210767","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\/2542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2210768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}