Donald Trump's people have been quietly rigging a swing state's primary for his benefit, and it could backfire, according to a report.
Trump has railed against those who he believes "rigged" an election against him back in 2020.
But when he's the one doing the rigging, it's another story entirely, according to the Huffington Post's report.
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"In their zeal to make third-on-the-calendar Nevada easier for Donald Trump to win in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, state GOP officials may instead have created a scenario that could delegitimize the result entirely by giving zero delegates to a candidate who wins the most ballots," according to the report.
It also quotes former state party chair Amy Tarkanian as saying, "It’s a nightmare. It’s a debacle. I don’t even know where to start."
"Instead of holding either a caucus or a primary, Nevada is holding both, just two days apart in early February. The primary, on Feb. 6, is being conducted by the state, using all the state voting precincts with ballots mailed to every registered Republican," according to the report. "The caucus, on Feb. 8, requires participants to find the site closest to their home designated by the pro-Trump state party during two specific hours that night to cast a paper ballot that will be counted by hand, by the pro-Trump state party."
Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo was also quoted as saying, "I think it will disenfranchise a number of voters that are interested in voting for a presidential candidate ... I think that’s unacceptable for the voters and the understanding of how things should be done.”
It continues:
"If that pattern continues this year, the winner of the Feb. 6 primary could easily draw more votes than the winner of the Feb. 8 caucuses but wind up with none of the state’s 26 delegates to the summer nominating convention. Those will all be awarded based on the caucus result, and the party is not allowing candidates who participate in the primary to enter the caucus."
“'Even if the winner of the February 6th Primary received more votes than the winner of the February 8th caucus, it won’t matter. They won’t get delegates,' Gibbs wrote," the report states. “The voters will not react well to that, nor will the campaigns.”
