I was still trying to figure out why Ted Cruz would pick Carly Fiorina as his running mate. She’s basically the exact opposite on policy to Ted Cruz. Then I finally found the answer. The California Republican Convention is this weekend. By picking Fiorina, Ted Cruz thinks this will give him a big boost at the convention. California is the last “big” primary state in June, with over 100 delegates. If Cruz is to deny Donald Trump of 1,237 delegates, he is going to have to take a big share of the GOP delegates in the California primary.
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In choosing former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his running mate, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
has achieved a small but significant scheduling coup: he will now dominate the whole second day of the California Republican Convention this weekend.Fiorina was already scheduled to give the convention’s final address, on Saturday evening. Cruz is scheduled to speak during the day. That will give the Cruz-Fiorina ticket a full day to make their case to California’s Republican voters.
Frontrunner Donald Trump is scheduled to address the convention first on Friday, while Ohio Gov. John Kasich, running a distant third, is scheduled to deliver a speech on Friday evening.
Unlike other state parties, the California Republican Party does not select its delegates to the Republican National Convention (RNC) at its state meeting. Rather, each candidate presents the party with a slate of delegates and alternates, who will attend the RNC in Cleveland in July if their campaign wins the congressional district they are assigned to represent.
However, the convention will be crucial in setting the tone for the decisive five-week primary. Trump will arrive with several recent primary victories in hand, but Cruz hopes that selecting Fiorina — who hails from the Golden State, and ran for Senate there in 2010 — will help him build momentum.
I watched Fiorina’s feeble run for Senate in 2010, in a Republican year. She couldn’t even get within ten points of old hag Barbara Boxer who is unpopular, even in this loony state. She may have had a few good GOP debates, but she is about as progressive Republican as it gets.