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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke during a news conference at the Trump National Golf Club Tuesday in Jupiter, Fla.
After counting 2,043 “provisional ballots,” Hawaii Republican Party officials said today that Tuesday’s GOP caucus results remain unchanged, with billionaire businessman Donald Trump picking up 11 delegates, said caucus chairman Andrew Walden.
“The final results, which we completed last night, do not change the calculation from what it would have been had we used the results without the provisional ballots,” Walden said today.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won seven Hawaii delegates, followed by one for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Walden said. The Republican National Convention is scheduled for July 18-21 in Cleveland.
GOP officials allowed Republican voters to cast provisional ballots at polling sites even though they were registered somewhere else.
In Tuesday’s GOP caucus, Trump received nearly 43 percent of the 13,377 votes cast; Cruz garnered more than 32 percent; Rubio received more than 13 percent; and Ohio Gov. John Kasich took 10 percent.
Retired surgeon Ben Carson and former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who were both on the ballot despite having dropped out of the race, each received less than 1 percent.
Hawaii GOP officials said 15,672 voters participated in Tuesday’s caucus, up 53 percent increase from 10,228 in the 2012 Republican caucus.
Take a moment to think about it. Why would anyone want to be President? The world is your audience and the burden upon your shoulders is staggering.
save–I agree, what our decision is as voters is to figure out who can take that load. In local State voting we don’t have decisions to make–same old career politicians–tax and spend and bow to the lobbyists.
That’s why we have such poor choices.
SP, reason I’m always impressed to our Country’s founders. We continue to have leaders ready to step forward and the process has been established. The system exists in nearly all American organizations, the education, training, gaining experience to take leadership. Some people have the tools to lead with individuals always stepping forward. And, yes we have many failures, yet many pick themselves up and start again.
At least during my lifetime, the presidents all end up fabulously wealthy after leaving office — as do their friends and cronies.
And in my lifetime we see career politicians who are making a killing in and out of office…Reid, Hatch,Pelosi,Romney,Lazy Maizie,McConnell,Clinton(s),Leahy,Mikulski,Rangel,Biden,Kerry,Cheney etc … it’s too numerous to mention. Needless to say, it’s on both sides of the aisle.
I agree with both ryan and Tita. Career politicians have become the scourge of our society. What gets me is the public has generally fallen for the BS messages told by these guys. Party loyalists care more about winning elections than the content of their candidates message. Until we have term limits and publicly financed elections we will be stuck with these Bozos whose goals are personal gain.
ryan, I agree they are extremely wealthy–both sides of the aisle–and guess who pays for Secret Service protection for them for the rest of their lives????
agree…This year’s candidates are all incredibly unprepared for the job. Only Hillary seems ready and she is, as we all know, badly flawed.
Kasich is extremely qualified and well prepared
hiliar is committed to continuing obama’s culture of corruption. hiliar’s conspiracy to become the first female felon elected president is in jeopardy with pagliano now testifying under immunity about nda violations committed by hiliar and her nixonian cabal.
pagliano needs to protect himself from the “clinton suicide syndrome” that plagues clinton corruption whistleblowers.
Why is the Hawaii GOP primary called a caucus? I turned up at the polling place, waited in line, got a ballot and voted. Sounds a lot like a primary to me.
only registered republicans were supposed to have voted in this exercise. and the ballot included only republican candidates. the vote was closed to all other parties and their candidates.
the primary is open to all voters of all parties and the ballot carries candidates from all parties, but you are supposed to vote only one party’s ballot.
good on you for voting the caucus.
Trump all the way! Now if this state can find SOMEONE to STAND UP and TAKE down the current lolo elected so called leaders or Dems that like to tax us to DEATH.
Republicans can’t get ahead in Hawaii because of their choices.