GOP Virgin Islands Delegates Declared Ineligible...

[Fargobison]

I guess Marco Rubio has won the Virgin Islands Caucus...What a mess...

[An American Tail: Fubart Goes West]

Good riddance to the Yobs.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Just wait till the credentials challenges begin in earnest come June.

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heh losers

But it is another Rubio win. What a shame. Or would it be considered a tie between Rubio and Uncommitted?

[IceSpear]

#Marcomentum

Will this cause him to drop back in?

[Averroës Nix]

Does this affect the majority threshold for winning the nomination on the first ballot?

[TJ in Oregon]

Does this affect the majority threshold for winning the nomination on the first ballot?

No, the Virgin Islands has alternate delegates to replace them.

[Erc]

Discussed this in the delegate megathread.  Basically, the VI GOP chair challenged the Yobs & Eilons in court and lost.  After losing, he immediately brought out this technicality (which doesn't even apply here) to throw them out (as well as 3 actual VI residents). 

I fully expect the Yobs to be restored at the convention, if not well before then.

[PresidentTRUMP]

LOL how can a man not in the race win? I don't get how that happened.

[dax00]

I fully expect the Yobs to be restored at the convention, if not well before then.

This. Canegata stepped out of line - obviously voting Lyin' Ted. Certification committee has yet to certify.

[Erc]

I fully expect the Yobs to be restored at the convention, if not well before then.

This. Canegata stepped out of line - obviously voting Lyin' Ted. Certification committee has yet to certify.

I don't think this was at the behest of or in support of some candidate, this is a purely VI GOP internal power struggle.  In fact, I'm pretty sure Ted would rather not have had this happen; he presumably doesn't want Trump to win a delegate here, even if he wins one himself, and would rather go with the crapshoot that is the Yobs.

[Mr. Morden]

Speaking of Yob, I don't suppose any of you have read his book on contested conventions?  I'm not ruling out the option of buying it myself and taking a look, if we really are going to have a contested RNC this year.