What's the point of the primary if it doesn't determine the party nominee?
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
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here is a WaPo article explaining the situation:
After decades of holding sparsely attended caucuses, which sometimes got messy and chaotic, Nevada legislators passed a law in 2021 requiring primary elections whenever more than one candidate was on the ballot. After more than a dozen candidates launched campaigns for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Nevada officials scheduled a Republican primary for Tuesday.
But that 2021 law contained a big loophole.
“There has to be a primary, but the law doesn’t say how the party allocates their delegates” that who will count toward determining the winner of the Republican presidential nomination, said Rebecca Gill, a political science professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
That omission, combined with the intense lobbying of Nevada GOP leaders by former president Donald Trump, has led to a unique, and perhaps bewildering, scenario: Nevada this week will hold a state-run primary and party-run caucuses.
TL;DR: Nevada made a law to make the it easier for citizens to participate in the “select your party’s nominee” process, but it was written kinda poorly and has a huge loophole clearly contrary to the intent of the law, which the GOP is of course exploiting.
But why isn't Nikki Haley running in the caucus?
The Caucus was pushed specifically by Trump and Trump affiliated officials in Nevada.
These are some elementary school level maneuvers...
Did they block her from the caucus, or did she choose not to enter the caucus? If the former, how, and if the latter, why?
From everything I read, the state sanctioned the Primary, then the party went behind everyones back to specifically set up the Caucus for Trump.
There's not a lot to do in Nevada beyond gambling and hookers.
Someone should combine that and make bank...
Trump already did and guess what? It was one of his many losses.
Call the establishment "slot machine" but have the top of the o broken so it flickers to a u.
Fascinating stuff
1% reporting in the Caucus and Trump is the winner. LOL.
Donald Trump - 97.6% - 362 votes
Ryan Binkley - 2.4% - 9 votes