It’s been a rough month for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).
After dropping out of the Republican presidential race after his home state primary, Rubio sent a letter asking the Alaska GOP not to release his bound delegates before the national convention.
There was just one thing amiss: he referred to the delegates he won running for the highest office in the “Untied States.”
“The decision to suspend my campaign for president of the Untied States [sic] is not intended to release any national convention delegates bound to me as a result of the 2016 delegate selection process that took place in your state,” he wrote in the letter, addressed to the chair of the state party.
NBC News tweeted a photo of the letter early Wednesday morning.
.@marcorubio making unprecedented bid to keep his GOP delegates for a contested convention https://t.co/MjDdzRC5MB pic.twitter.com/22iJ2Cmt1l
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 30, 2016
The undated letter, sent with a carbon copy to national party chair Reince Priebus, is part of Rubio’s effort to keep the delegates he won before dropping out, a move to block frontrunner Donald Trump from securing the nomination in the event of a contested convention.
NBC reported Rubio is asking state parties in 21 states and territories to not release the 172 delegates he won in the race.
Epic Freudian slip…
He outa higher me. I never make splelling miskates.
Send it straight to the archives — Along with his candidacy —
Untie those delegates, Alaska … just untie them.
Well, another secessionist trying to untie the bonds of the United States of America! His plan revealed with a Freudian slip!