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Pennsylvania Republicans and unbound delegates in 2024

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

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Josh Putnam
Aug 11, 2023
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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?

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