Michigan GOP Changes Primary Rules As Part Of Effort To Boost Trump In 2020

on March 4, 2016 in Warren, Michigan.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to guests during a rally on March 4, 2016 in Warren, Michigan. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Michigan’s Republican Party is switching up the rules of its primary process to help President Donald Trump beat his GOP opponents.

Michigan GOP spokesperson Tony Zammit told MLive.com that under the new rule, primary candidates will receive delegates only if they reach 20 percent of the primary vote. In 2016, the requirement was 15 percent.

Zammit said the party’s rules “try to reflect the will of the voters.”

Unlike South Carolina, Nevada, Arizona and Kansas, Michigan doesn’t allow parties to cancel their primaries outright. However, Michigan’s rule change marks yet another state GOP chapter changing its nomination process to protect Trump.

However, Iowa and New Hampshire have refused to cancel their caucuses and primaries for the upcoming election.

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  1. This just seems monumentally stupid to me. If your candidate can’t win the party faithful then isn’t that a thing you’d like to know before the general election?

  2. Maybe it’d be quicker to pick a single candidate and have the party members vote for them unanimously, North Korean style?

  3. Dear Leader Trump will not allow any dissent in the ranks of the unwashed masses.

    HE knows what is good for you. YOU do as you are told. Free-Dumb.

  4. This is more to ensure that if other candidates make it to the Convention floor, that votes can’t be split.

    Sooo much winning.

  5. Zammit said the party’s rules “try to reflect the will of the voters…”

    “…by denying the will of the voters.”

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