Pennsylvania Republicans and unbound delegates in 2024

What's really at stake in the Keystone state and beyond?

The crack team at Newsmax last week stumbled onto something in the delegate rules that may hamper Donald Trump down the road in 2024:

Trump Strong in Pa. but Delegates Could Turn Elsewhere

Usually that is enough to draw a click from the pencil pushers working overtime at FHQ HQ. It did. And what followed was a commentary by John Gizzi that leans on some myths about how delegate allocation/selection works in the Keystone state and started to tiptoe down a path toward a quiet acknowledgment of the role unbound delegates may play in the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race.

Well, let’s have a look at that, shall we?