Elections

Texas still considering winner-take-all GOP primary

Font Size:

While GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum suspended his campaign Tuesday, the campaign to turn Texas into a winner-take-all primary continues.

“This does not affect the push to have an Emergency Texas GOP SREC [State Republican Executive Committee] Meeting to change our rules back to Winner Take All,” SREC member David Bellow explained following Santorum’s announcement.

Some SREC members have been pushing to call for an emergency meeting to vote to change Texas from a proportional primary to winner-take-all. Santorum supporters had hoped that a win of all Texas’ delegates would help to revive his campaign.

Bellow told The Daily Caller that the SREC has the necessary support from 15 committee members to petition for an emergency meeting. Supporters of the measure, however, have yet to schedule that meeting because they want to be certain there are enough votes to change the delegate math prior the meeting.

According to Bellow, the effort has never been about Santorum — but about keeping Texas relevant in the primary process.

The Republican National Committee told TheDC last week that it is unlikely it would grant Texas a waiver to change their delegate apportionment. According to Bellow, however, the state does not need the RNC’s approval. But the national organization could levy a penalty at the Tampa national convention for deviating from the approved primary process.

Bellow added that with Santorum out it is even more likely that Texas will become winner-take-all.

“I think it is even more likely now that the rest of the SREC members will join on. Because with Santorum dropping out it makes it very likely that it will not be a brokered convention and that Romney will be able to secure the nomination,” he explained, adding that he doubts the Republican National Convention will punish Texas for changing their primary math because there will be a goal of unity. “I really don’t think the national delegates are going to stir anything up and try to punish Texas.”

The Texas primary is scheduled to take place May 28.

A CNN source said the improbability of Texas becoming winner-take-all was a factor in Santorum’s decision to bow out.

Follow Caroline on Twitter

PREMIUM ARTICLE: Subscribe To Keep Reading

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign Up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
BENEFITS READERS PASS PATRIOTS FOUNDERS
Daily and Breaking Newsletters
Daily Caller Shows
Ad Free Experience
Exclusive Articles
Custom Newsletters
Editor Daily Rundown
Behind The Scenes Coverage
Award Winning Documentaries
Patriot War Room
Patriot Live Chat
Exclusive Events
Gold Membership Card
Tucker Mug

What does Founders Club include?

Tucker Mug and Membership Card
Founders

Readers,

Instead of sucking up to the political and corporate powers that dominate America, The Daily Caller is fighting for you — our readers. We humbly ask you to consider joining us in this fight.

Now that millions of readers are rejecting the increasingly biased and even corrupt corporate media and joining us daily, there are powerful forces lined up to stop us: the old guard of the news media hopes to marginalize us; the big corporate ad agencies want to deprive us of revenue and put us out of business; senators threaten to have our reporters arrested for asking simple questions; the big tech platforms want to limit our ability to communicate with you; and the political party establishments feel threatened by our independence.

We don't complain -- we can't stand complainers -- but we do call it how we see it. We have a fight on our hands, and it's intense. We need your help to smash through the big tech, big media and big government blockade.

We're the insurgent outsiders for a reason: our deep-dive investigations hold the powerful to account. Our original videos undermine their narratives on a daily basis. Even our insistence on having fun infuriates them -- because we won’t bend the knee to political correctness.

One reason we stand apart is because we are not afraid to say we love America. We love her with every fiber of our being, and we think she's worth saving from today’s craziness.

Help us save her.

A second reason we stand out is the sheer number of honest responsible reporters we have helped train. We have trained so many solid reporters that they now hold prominent positions at publications across the political spectrum. Hear a rare reasonable voice at a place like CNN? There’s a good chance they were trained at Daily Caller. Same goes for the numerous Daily Caller alumni dominating the news coverage at outlets such as Fox News, Newsmax, Daily Wire and many others.

Simply put, America needs solid reporters fighting to tell the truth or we will never have honest elections or a fair system. We are working tirelessly to make that happen and we are making a difference.

Since 2010, The Daily Caller has grown immensely. We're in the halls of Congress. We're in the Oval Office. And we're in up to 20 million homes every single month. That's 20 million Americans like you who are impossible to ignore.

We can overcome the forces lined up against all of us. This is an important mission but we can’t do it unless you — the everyday Americans forgotten by the establishment — have our back.

Please consider becoming a Daily Caller Patriot today, and help us keep doing work that holds politicians, corporations and other leaders accountable. Help us thumb our noses at political correctness. Help us train a new generation of news reporters who will actually tell the truth. And help us remind Americans everywhere that there are millions of us who remain clear-eyed about our country's greatness.

In return for membership, Daily Caller Patriots will be able to read The Daily Caller without any of the ads that we have long used to support our mission. We know the ads drive you crazy. They drive us crazy too. But we need revenue to keep the fight going. If you join us, we will cut out the ads for you and put every Lincoln-headed cent we earn into amplifying our voice, training even more solid reporters, and giving you the ad-free experience and lightning fast website you deserve.

Patriots will also be eligible for Patriots Only content, newsletters, chats and live events with our reporters and editors. It's simple: welcome us into your lives, and we'll welcome you into ours.

We can save America together.

Become a Daily Caller Patriot today.

Signature

Neil Patel