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=<div>If you’re inclined to dump Trump, the Committee’s your best hope of getting traction. If 57 of the 112 members agree to pass a “conscience” clause unbinding the delegates in their votes for nominee, you’ve got a real chance — not necessarily a great chance, but a real one — to oust Trump in favor of someone else. Obviously who those 112 are is crucially important. Last week the RNC named the new head of the Committee, a <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2016/06/17/uh-oh-new-gop-rules-committee-chair-for-the-convention-probably-isnt-the-person-trump-would-have-chosen/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">longtime GOP operative from Utah</a> who’s chilly towards Trump and seems warmish to the possibility of untraditional rules for the convention. But you still need 57 yays to get where you’re going.The full 112-member list was <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/never-trump-movement-gets-little-help-from-convention-rules-panel-roster-224750" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">leaked</a> last night. It’s going to be a heavy lift for the Dump-Trumpers — or, as I’m now calling them, the Trexit faction.<blockquote style="padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1em 10px 0px 50px; position: relative; width: 492px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12.16px;">The list, which was sent to which was sent to members of the committee late Thursday and obtained by POLITICO, includes 38 members of the Republican National Committee — more than a third of the entire rules panel. So far, RNC members have largely taken their cues from chairman Reince Priebus and towed the line in support of Trump. RNC members like Henry Barbour of Mississippi, Harvey Tettlebaum, Morton Blackwell of Missouri and Bill Palatucci of New Jersey will be returning for repeat appearances on the convention rules committee.Nineteen members of the committee also served on the rules panel in 2012 and may have an advantage when it comes to understanding and maneuvering through the potentially lengthy process. This group includes Trump supporters like Massachusetts’s Vincent DeVito, Pennsylvania’s Lawrence Tabas and Tennessee’s John Ryder, who’s also counsel to the RNC.Dozens of other delegates on the committee have pledged loyalty to Trump or support for his nomination.</blockquote><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/24/politics/rnc-rules-committee-membership/index.html" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">CNN</a> noticed that many of the Committee members “also serve on the RNC’s Standing Rules Committee. That group met this April in Florida and rejected a bid to change the rules of procedure for the convention, passing a draft of the convention rules that matched the ones put in place by the 2012 convention delegates.” I wouldn’t read too much into them passing on a rule change in April, knowing that it would be controversial and that the convention Rules Committee could simply undo it next month, but if you’re looking for evidence that they’ll look skeptically on dramatic changes to the rules about how delegates vote, there you go.So here’s the math: If the 40 or so RNC apparatchiks vote as a bloc to protect Trump in the interest of preventing a party-shattering insurrection, the Trexit faction would need to win 57 of the remaining 72 Committee members to get a “conscience” clause through.</div><div>
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</div><div>Lawrence J. Tabas is a senior partner with the law firm of Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP, and the Chairman of its Election Law Group. Obermayer has offices in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, New Jersey and Delaware.Mr. Tabas maintains an active and extensive practice in Election Law, including election law litigation. He has almost over 30 years of experience representing federal, state and local candidates for public office; candidate committees; political party committees; political action committees; governmental bodies; and lobbyists. This representation places special emphasis on campaign contribution and expense law, nomination petitions and ballot access, recounts and election contests, regulatory matters, voting machines and systems, conduct of elections, compliance with HAVA, lobbying, and redistricting.His clients include candidates for the President of United States (he served as Counsel to and Chairman of the Legal Team in Pennsylvania for McCain 2008 and Chairman of the Litigation Team in Pennsylvania for Bush-Cheney 2004), the U.S. Congress, Governor, Judges of the state and local courts, the State Legislature and Speaker of the House, Mayor of Philadelphia, city-wide and local offices, political parties, political action committees, governmental bodies, and national and regional lobbyists and lobbying firms.Mr. Tabas’ notable election law litigation successes include: Elliot v. McCain, 2:08 c.v.-00520, U.S, District Court (W.D.Pa.); In re: John McCain’s Ineligibility to be on Presidential Primary Ballot in Pennsylvania; (Supreme Court of Pennsylvania) 11 WAP2008.The defense of In re: Nomination Petition of Mike L. Krancer for Justice of the Supreme Court, C.P. No. 127 MD 2007; Appeal of Pierce, Stepnick and Gantman, 843 A.2d 1223(Pa. S.Ct. 2004); In re: Nomination Petition of Kerry Benninghoff, 852 A.2d 1182 (Pa. S. Ct. 2004); In re: Municipal Reapportionment of Haverford Township, No. 4 C.D. 2005 (Cmmwlth. Ct. 2005); and In re: Creighton, 899 A.2d 1166 (Cmmwlth- 2006), aff’d 896 A. 2d 583 (2006). In 2006, Mr. Tabas successfully defended up through the Pennsylvania Supreme Court four State Representative Nomination Petition Challenges. Mr. Tabas was Chief Counsel in 2003 to a candidate for the Superior Court during a recount challenge to her victory, and he successfully defended the recount challenge in state and federal courts, which upheld the candidate’s victory state-wide by 28 votes out of 2.1 million cast.Mr. Tabas is currently the General Counsel of the Republican Party of Pennsylvania (“RPP”) and prior to that he served as Special Counsel for Election Law Matters. He was also a publicly elected member of the RPP from 1998 to 2002.In 2008, he was an At-Large Delegate to the Republican National Convention and a Member of the Rules Committee of the Republican National Committee. He served as counsel to the Pennsylvania Joint Senate/House Committee on Election Reform, 2001 — 2002 (appointed by the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives). Other appointments include: Special Counsel to Montgomery County Republican Committee, 2004 to present; General Counsel to the Reagan/Bush Election Day Program of Philadelphia (1984); Member of the Lawyers for Dole for President Committee (1996); Member of the Mayor’s Election Task Force for the City of Philadelphia (appointed by then Mayor Rendell) (1994-1995); General Counsel to the Ernie Preate for Governor Committee (1993-94) and the John Egan for Mayor of Philadelphia Campaigns (1983, 1987); Special Counsel to the Republican City Committee of Philadelphia (1981-93). He also served as special redistricting counsel for Haverford and Upper Moreland Townships.Mr. Tabas formerly was the Republican candidate for City Council-at-Large of Philadelphia (1991); City Controller of Philadelphia (1985); and the State House of Representatives (1980). In 1997, he was elected to a four year term as a school board director of Lower Merion School District.Mr. Tabas is a frequent lecturer on election matters and he is the author of numerous election law publications, including “Manual for Recounts and Election Contests in Pennsylvania — Third Edition” and “Manual for Election Day Conduct and Strategies” and the co-author of “Pennsylvania Election Law,” including the chapters on “Campaign Contributions and Expenses,” “Nominations of Candidates” and “Recounts and Election Contests,” Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 1988, 2005 and 2007. He was also co-author of the Chapter on Recounts and Election Contests for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute Election Law Course Book, 2005, and the sole author in 2007. He previously served as an election night commentator for a local radio station.He received his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center.Mr. Tabas is a member of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and American Bar Associations. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Claims.<div>
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<h3>Mr. Lawrence J. Tabas</h3>Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div></div><div>Lawrence Tabas was <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Types_of_delegates" title="Types of delegates" style="text-decoration: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">an at-large delegate</a> to the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_National_Convention,2016" title="Republican National Convention, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">2016 Republican National Convention</a> from <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election_in_Pennsylvania,2016" title="Presidential election in Pennsylvania, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">Pennsylvania</a>.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a> Pennsylvania’s 14 at-large delegates and its three RNC delegates were bound by the results of the state primary election to support <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign,2016" title="Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">Donald Trump</a> at the national convention. As of July 13, 2016, Trump had approximately <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election,2016#Republican_nomination" title="Presidential election, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">1,542 delegates</a>. The winner of the Republican nomination needed the support of 1,237 delegates. Trump formally won the nomination on July 19, 2016. Pennsylvania’s 54 district-level delegates were elected directly by voters in the state primary election as unpledged delegates, meaning they were not bound to vote for any specific candidate at the national convention.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">Career</h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">Political career</h3>In 1980, Lawrence Tabas ran as the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican" title="Republican" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican</a> candidate for the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives and, in 1985, ran for city controller of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Philadelphia,Pennsylvania" title="Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Philadelphia</a>. Tabas ran as the Republican candidate for city council in Philadelphia, in 1991. Tabas was elected in 1997 as a school board director of the Lower Merion School District of Montgomery County.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_note-bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a> From 1996 to 1997, Tabas was appointed by the governor to the State Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_note-resume-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">Campaign activity</h3>In 1984, Tabas was acting general counsel for <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ronald Reagan</a>'s (R) presidential campaign's election day program in Philadelphia.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_note-pagop-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a> He served as counsel to the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tom_Corbett" title="Tom Corbett" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tom Corbett</a> for Governor Committee. Tabas was the chairman of the litigation team in Pennsylvania for <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a>'s (R) 2004 presidential campaign. In 2008, he was the counsel to and the chair of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/John_McCain" title="John McCain" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John McCain</a>'s (R) presidential campaign's legal team in <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pennsylvania</a>. In 2012, he served as presidential candidate <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mitt Romney</a>'s (R) co-chair for the Pennsylvania legal team.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_note-bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a> Tabas has also served as counsel for other campaigns, at the national, state, and local levels as well as for <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Super_PAC" title="Super PAC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">super PACs</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/PAC" title="PAC" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">PACs</a>, and lobbying firms.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_note-pagop-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">Legal career</h3>From 2001 to 2002, Tabas was appointed by the majority leader of the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Pennsylvania_House_of_Representatives" title="Pennsylvania House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pennsylvania House of Representatives</a> to serve as counsel to the Pennsylvania Joint Senate/House Committee on Election Reform.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_note-bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a> According to his bio, he serves as counsel to the Pennsylvania House Republican Campaign Committee.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_note-bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a>Tabas is a senior partner at the law firm Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell, and Hippel LLP in Philadelphia. Tabas serves as the chair for the firm's Health Care Practice Group and is a senior partner of the firm's Bankruptcy and Financial Reorganization Department.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_note-resume-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">State Republican party</h3>Tabas is the general counsel of the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_Party_of_Pennsylvania" title="Republican Party of Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican Party of Pennsylvania</a>'s State Committee. In 2008 and 2012, Tabas was a delegate at the Republican National Convention and served on the Rules Committees.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_note-bio-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">2016 Republican National Convention</h2><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_National_Convention,2016" title="Republican National Convention, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican National Convention, 2016</a> and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/RNC_Rules_Committee,2016" title="RNC Rules Committee, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">RNC Rules Committee, 2016</a></dd></dl></dd></dl>Tabas served on the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_National_Convention,2016" title="Republican National Convention, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican National Convention's</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/RNC_Rules_Committee,2016" title="RNC Rules Committee, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rules Committee</a>. Tabas was one of 19 members that served on the committee in 2012.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">RNC Rules Committee</h3><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/RNC_Rules_Committee,2016" title="RNC Rules Committee, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">RNC Rules Committee, 2016</a></dd></dl></dd></dl>Tabas was a member of the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/RNC_Rules_Committee,2016" title="RNC Rules Committee, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">RNC Rules Committee</a>, a 112-member body responsible for crafting the official rules of the Republican Party, including the rules that governed the 2016 Republican National Convention.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[6]</a><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">Appointment process</h4>The convention Rules Committee in 2016 consisted of one male and one female delegate from each state and territorial delegation. The <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_National_Convention_rules,2012#RULE_NO.41" title="Republican National Convention rules, 2012" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rules of the Republican Party</a> required each delegation to elect from its own membership representatives to serve on the Rules Committee.<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">Delegate rules</h3><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/RNC_delegate_guidelines_from_Pennsylvania,2016" title="RNC delegate guidelines from Pennsylvania, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">RNC delegate guidelines from Pennsylvania, 2016</a> and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_delegates_from_Pennsylvania,2016" title="Republican delegates from Pennsylvania, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican delegates from Pennsylvania, 2016</a></dd></dl></dd></dl>At-large delegates from Pennsylvania were selected at the summer meeting of the State Committee on May 21, 2016. They were allocated to the statewide winner of the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election_in_Pennsylvania,2016" title="Presidential election in Pennsylvania, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">state primary election</a>. Pennsylvania's 54 congressional district delegates were directly elected on the primary ballot as unbound delegates. They were not required to disclose which candidate they supported at the time of their election.<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">Pennsylvania primary results</h3><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election_in_Pennsylvania,2016" title="Presidential election in Pennsylvania, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Presidential election in Pennsylvania, 2016</a></dd></dl></dd></dl><table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="500px" class="collapsible" id="collapsibleTable0" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><tbody><tr><th colspan="4" style="background-color: red; text-align: center;">[<a id="collapseButton0" style="background: none;">hide</a>]Pennsylvania Republican Primary, 2016</th></tr><tr><td width="275px" style="background-color: grey; text-align: center;">Candidate</td><td width="75px" style="background-color: grey; text-align: center;">Vote %</td><td width="100px" style="background-color: grey; text-align: center;">Votes</td><td width="100px" style="background-color: grey; text-align: center;">Delegates</td></tr><tr><td width="275px" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Won" title="Won" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><img alt="Green check mark transparent.png" src="https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/images/thumb/0/0a/Green_check_mark_transparent.png/14px-Green_check_mark_transparent.png" width="14" height="14" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/0/0a/Green_check_mark_transparent.png/21px-Green_check_mark_transparent.png 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/0/0a/Green_check_mark_transparent.png/28px-Green_check_mark_transparent.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="100" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" /></a>Donald Trump</td><td width="75" style="text-align: center;">56.6%</td><td width="100" style="text-align: center;">902,593</td><td width="100" style="text-align: center;">17</td></tr><tr><td width="275px" style="text-align: center;">Ted Cruz</td><td width="75" style="text-align: center;">21.7%</td><td width="100" style="text-align: center;">345,506</td><td width="100" style="text-align: center;">0</td></tr><tr><td width="275px" style="text-align: center;">John Kasich</td><td width="75" style="text-align: center;">19.4%</td><td width="100" style="text-align: center;">310,003</td><td width="100" style="text-align: center;">0</td></tr><tr><td width="275px" style="text-align: center;">Jeb Bush</td><td width="75" style="text-align: center;">0.6%</td><td width="100" style="text-align: center;">9,577</td><td width="100" style="text-align: center;">0</td></tr><tr><td width="275px" style="text-align: center;">Marco Rubio</td><td width="75" style="text-align: center;">0.7%</td><td width="100" style="text-align: center;">11,954</td><td width="100" style="text-align: center;">0</td></tr><tr><td width="275px" style="text-align: center;">Ben Carson</td><td width="75" style="text-align: center;">0.9%</td><td width="100" style="text-align: center;">14,842</td><td width="100" style="text-align: center;">0</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" width="450" style="background-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-align: center;">Totals</td><td width="100" style="text-align: center;">1,594,475</td><td width="100" style="text-align: center;">17</td></tr><tr><td colspan="5">Source: <a target="blank" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/pennsylvania" style="text-decoration: none; background: url(" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.png="external-link-ltr-icon.png" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">The New York Times</a> and <a target="blank" class="external text" href="http://www.electionreturns.state.pa.us/ENR_NEW" style="text-decoration: none; background: url(" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.png="external-link-ltr-icon.png" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Pennsylvania Secretary of State</a></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: none; width: auto;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">Delegate allocation</h3><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;">See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/2016_presidential_nominations:calendar_and_delegate_rules" title="2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules</a></dd></dl></dd></dl><div class="floatright" style="clear: right; float: right; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><img alt="Logo-GOP.png" src="https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/images/thumb/9/91/Logo-GOP.png/150px-Logo-GOP.png" width="150" height="68" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/9/91/Logo-GOP.png/225px-Logo-GOP.png 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/9/91/Logo-GOP.png/300px-Logo-GOP.png 2x" data-file-width="1278" data-file-height="576" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></div>Pennsylvania had 71 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 54 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 18 congressional districts). According to the Republican National Committee, Pennsylvania's district delegates were "elected on the primary ballot as officially unbound," meaning that these delegates were not required to pledge their support to the winner of the state's primary.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_note-rncreport-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_note-rollcallvote-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a>Of the remaining 17 delegates, 14 served at large. Pennsylvania's at-large delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the plurality winner of the state's primary received all of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention. The RNC delegates were required to pledge their support to the winner of the state's primary.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_note-rncreport-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_note-rollcallvote-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a><table align="center" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" margin-top="margin-top" em="em"><tbody><tr><td align="center" colspan="2" /></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">See also</h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" images="images" bullet-icon.png="bullet-icon.png" font-family="font-family" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_National_Convention,2016" title="Republican National Convention, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican National Convention, 2016</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/2016_presidential_nominations:calendar_and_delegate_rules" title="2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/RNC_delegate_guidelines_from_Pennsylvania,2016" title="RNC delegate guidelines from Pennsylvania, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">RNC delegate guidelines from Pennsylvania, 2016</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_delegate_rules_by_state,2016" title="Republican delegate rules by state, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican delegate rules by state, 2016</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election,2016" title="Presidential election, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Presidential election, 2016</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,2016" title="Presidential candidates, 2016" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Presidential candidates, 2016</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">External links</h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" images="images" bullet-icon.png="bullet-icon.png" font-family="font-family" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a target="blank" class="external text" href="http://www.obermayer.com/" style="text-decoration: none; background: url(" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.png="external-link-ltr-icon.png" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell, and Hippel LLP</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif">Footnotes</h2><div class="references-small" style="max-height: 20em; padding: 10px; overflow: auto; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><div class="mobile-columns"><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-resume-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_ref-resume_1-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.0</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_ref-resume_1-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.1</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_ref-resume_1-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.2</a> <a target="blank" class="external text" href="http://www.myowlspace.com/s/705/images/editor_documents/LTabas_HealthCare_Resume.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background: url(" images="images" document-icon.png="document-icon.png" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">My Owl Space, "Lawrence Tabas Resume, accessed June 24, 2016</a></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">↑</a> <a target="blank" class="external text" href="http://www.pagop.org/2016/05/asher-toretti-re-elected-republican-national-committee/" style="text-decoration: none; background: url(" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.png="external-link-ltr-icon.png" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">PAGOP, "Asher, Toretti Re-Elected To Republican National Committee At 2016 PA GOP Summer Meeting," May 21, 2016</a></li><li id="cite_note-bio-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_ref-bio_3-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.0</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_ref-bio_3-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.1</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_ref-bio_3-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.2</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_ref-bio_3-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.3</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_ref-bio_3-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.4</a> <a target="blank" class="external text" href="http://www.obermayer.com/attorneys/lawrence-j-tabas/" style="text-decoration: none; background: url(" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.png="external-link-ltr-icon.png" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Obermayer et al, "Lawrence J. Tabas," accessed June 24, 2016</a></li><li id="cite_note-pagop-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_ref-pagop_4-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.0</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_ref-pagop_4-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.1</a> <a target="blank" class="external text" href="http://www.pagop.org/about/leadership/general-counsel/" style="text-decoration: none; background: url(" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.png="external-link-ltr-icon.png" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">PA GOP, "Lawrence J. Tabas, Esq.," accessed June 24, 2016</a></li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">↑</a> <a target="blank" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/never-trump-movement-gets-little-help-from-convention-rules-panel-roster-224750" style="text-decoration: none; background: url(" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.png="external-link-ltr-icon.png" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Politico, "Never Trump movement gets little help from convention rules panel roster," June 23, 2016</a></li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">↑</a> Ballotpedia's list of 2016 RNC Rules Committee members is based on an official list from the Republican National Committee obtained by Ballotpedia on June 24, 2016</li><li id="cite_note-rncreport-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_ref-rncreport_7-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.0</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_ref-rncreport_7-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7.1</a> <a target="blank" class="external text" href="https://prod-static-ngop-pbl.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/2016%20PRESIDENTIAL%20NOMINATING%20PROCESS%20BOOK_1443803140.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background: url(" images="images" document-icon.png="document-icon.png" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015</a></li><li id="cite_note-rollcallvote-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_ref-rollcallvote_8-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8.0</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lawrence_Tabas#cite_ref-rollcallvote_8-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8.1</a> <a target="_blank" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2016/politics/republican-convention-delegate-count/" style="text-decoration: none; background: url(" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.png="external-link-ltr-icon.png" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016</a></li></ol></div></div></div><div>==</div></div></div>