“The chairman of the party of Florida, who is an avid and outward supporter of Marco Rubio, gets to appoint 30 of those delegates,” Lewandowski said. “Now, I understand those are the rules but Donald Trump won. … And now, you’ve got a person who is supporting Marco Rubio who gets to appoint 30 of the 99 delegates.”
Lewandowski’s comments were wrong on three counts: Ingoglia remained neutral before and after the state’s March 15 GOP primary; the chairman doesn’t “appoint” any delegates; and the chairman is in charge of recommending 15 — not “30 of the 99” — delegates to the state executive committee…
Some in Trump’s orbit grumbled that Lewandowski was needlessly alienating Ingoglia, who had been having “productive talks” with Trump’s team concerning the potential appointment of some friendly Florida delegates. The campaign has submitted a list of preferred delegates to Ingoglia, who’s in charge of recommending 15 candidates to the state party’s executive committee for approval at its May meeting…
“Corey goes on national TV to talk about how he didn’t really commit battery on a woman — a terrible topic for the campaign to have out there — and then he makes it even worse by getting his facts wrong and pissing off the chairman in Florida when he didn’t need to,” one Republican inside the campaign said.
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