Kenneth T. Walsh
US News.com
May 21, 2012
Republican strategists and some of Ron Paul’s advisers are concerned that diehard Paul backers may turn confrontational at the GOP national convention, bent on pushing a libertarian agenda and perhaps staging a series of protests against the Republican establishment and presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Paul’s effort to amass delegates for his presidential campaign is proceeding, even though he says he won’t campaign in the remaining primary states, only at state conventions and other gatherings where political organization can make all the difference. His backers won 32 of 40 delegates from Minnesota last weekend after Paul leaders again outmaneuvered Romney supporters at the state’s GOP convention.
It won’t be enough to derail Romney’s nomination, since his string of big victories recently has placed him at 991 delegates, only 153 short of the 1,144 needed for a majority, according to the Associated Press. Paul, the only other GOP candidate left in the race, has 107.
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