Republican National Convention
The Republican National Convention ( RNC ) is a once every four years taking place congress to the candidate of the Republican Party for election as President and Vice President of the United States to nominate and to define the party program.
The equivalent of the Democratic Party is the Democratic National Convention . The meetings traditionally end with the presidential candidate's speech and the baloon drop , a balloon and confetti fireworks display that rains down on the meeting visitors.
history
The first Republican National Convention was held in Jackson , Michigan in 1854 .
In 2012, it officially opened on August 27 at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa , Florida . At that convention, Mitt Romney was officially named a Republican presidential candidate.
In 2016 , it was held at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland , Ohio , July 18-21 , with primary winner Donald Trump confirmed as the Republican candidate for the 2016 presidential election .
In 2020 it will take place from August 24th to 27th in Charlotte, North Carolina . On the agenda is the nomination of Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for a second term as candidates for the upcoming 2020 presidential election .
Number of delegates by state
The number of delegates by state for the Republican National Convention is regulated by rule 14 of the party statutes:
- Ten delegates for each of the 50 states.
- National Committeeman, National Committeewoman, and Chairman of the Republican Party in each state, American Samoa , the District of Columbia , Guam , the Northern Mariana Islands , Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands .
- Three delegates for each congressional constituency from each state, sixteen from the District of Columbia, twenty from Puerto Rico, and six each from American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands.
- For each state that the majority of Electoral College electors voted in favor of the Republican candidate in the last presidential election, four and a half delegates plus a number of delegates representing 60 percent of that state's total electoral vote, fractions rounded up.
- An additional delegate for each of the following elected official functions, if the officers are from the Republican Party and were elected either in the year of the previous presidential election or in each subsequent election before January 1 of the year in which the national convention is held:
- for the governor
- provided that at least half of the state's elected MPs in the United States House of Representatives are from the Republican Party
- for the chairman of each chamber of the respective state parliament, if he is a member of the Republican Party and the Republican Party has more than half of the MPs
- if all houses of the respective federal parliament are made up of a majority of Republican MPs and all houses are presided over by Republican MPs
- to any and all of the US Republican Senators elected in that state within the six years prior to January 1 of the year in which the National Convention takes place.
- The District of Columbia also receives, if all or a majority of the electoral votes for the Republican candidate in the previous presidential election, four and a half delegates plus thirty percent of the 16 delegates assigned to the District of Columbia generally, both fractions being rounded up.
supporting documents
- ↑ Republican Party Congress in Florida: Too Much Calm after the Storm ( Memento from August 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at tagesschau.de, August 28, 2012 (accessed on August 28, 2012).
- ↑ RNC 2020: Republican Party convention nominates Trump - full schedule. BBC News, August 24, 2020, accessed August 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Rules of the Republican Party ( Memento from September 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
