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Matt Moore (South Carolina)
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of South Carolina |
| Role: | Former chair |
| Location: | South Carolina |
| Affiliation: | Republican Party |
| Education: | •Georgia Tech (B.S., industrial engineering) •University of South Carolina (M.A., economics, 2014) |
Matt Moore (South Carolina) is a former chair of the Republican Party of South Carolina. Before serving in that position, he worked for several republican campaigns around South Carolina.[1]
Moore was an automatic delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from South Carolina. He was one of 50 delegates from South Carolina bound to support Donald Trump on the first ballot.[2][3] As of July 13, 2016, Trump had approximately 1,542 delegates. The winner of the Republican nomination needed the support of 1,237 delegates. Trump formally won the nomination on July 19, 2016.
Career
Moore earned a B.S. in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech before going on to earn an M.A. in economics from the University of South Carolina in 2014.[4][5]
Political activity
Moore served as the executive director of the Republican Party of South Carolina (SCGOP) from 2011 to 2012 and as state director for Senator Tim Scott (R) of South Carolina. He also worked for Representative Jeff Duncan (R) when Duncan was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives. Before working as executive director, Moore "served four winning gubernatorial campaigns and advised over one hundred other winning Republican campaigns."[6][1]
The SCGOP first elected Moore as chairman in June 2013. He was re-elected in May 2015. According to his profile on the state party website, Moore was the youngest state party chair of either major political party in the United States from June 2013 to April 2015.[1]
In February 2017, Moore announced his decision not to seek re-election to a third term as SCGOP chair. His second term ended in May 2017.[7]
"I’m still excited about the future of the S.C. GOP. Yet with so many changes in state and national politics, I feel like now is the right time to hand over the office of state chairman to someone new," Moore stated in a letter to party members. "No one 'owns' any political office, including state chairman, and it should remain that way."[7]
Republican National Committee
- See also: Republican National Committee
In March 2016, Greenville Online reported that Moore had been approached by members of the Republican National Committee about succeeding Reince Priebus as chair of the national Republican Party. Priebus was later succeeded by Ronna Romney McDaniel in January 2017.[8]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Moore was an automatic delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from South Carolina.
RNC Rules Committee
- See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016
Moore was a member of the RNC Rules Committee, a 112-member body responsible for crafting the official rules of the Republican Party, including the rules that governed the 2016 Republican National Convention.[9]
Appointment process
The convention Rules Committee in 2016 consisted of one male and one female delegate from each state and territorial delegation. The Rules of the Republican Party required each delegation to elect from its own membership representatives to serve on the Rules Committee.
Delegate rules
In South Carolina, national delegates were selected at congressional district conventions and the South Carolina Republican State Convention. State party rules allocated each congressional district's three delegates to the presidential candidate who received the most votes in that district. At-large delegates were allocated to the winner of the statewide primary. All delegates were bound for the first ballot at the Republican National Convention.
South Carolina primary results
| South Carolina Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
32.5% | 240,882 | 50 | |
| Marco Rubio | 22.5% | 166,565 | 0 | |
| Ted Cruz | 22.3% | 165,417 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 7.8% | 58,056 | 0 | |
| John Kasich | 7.6% | 56,410 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 7.2% | 53,551 | 0 | |
| Totals | 740,881 | 50 | ||
| Source: South Carolina State Election Commission | ||||
Delegate allocation
South Carolina had 50 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 21 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's seven congressional districts). South Carolina's district-level delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won the plurality of the vote in a given congressional district was allocated all three of that district's delegates.[10][11]
Of the remaining 29 delegates, 26 served at large. South Carolina's at-large delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won the greatest number of votes statewide received all 26 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 pledged to support the candidate who won the South Carolina primary.[10][11]
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See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Republican Party of South Carolina, "Chairman Matt Moore," accessed March 24, 2016
- ↑ South Carolina Republican Party, "2016 National Convention Delegate/Alternate Election Results," May 7, 2016
- ↑ The Post and Courier, "No single candidate may end up with all of South Carolina’s delegates," February 19, 2016
- ↑ Republican Party, "Matt Moore," accessed April 15, 2016
- ↑ The Post and Courier, "2012 S.C. Republican presidential primary a $50 million bonus for the state, study shows," January 11, 2015
- ↑ Republican Party, "Matt Moore," accessed April 18, 2016
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Post and Courier, "South Carolina GOP chairman not seeking re-election, Democratic chair likely to follow," February 4, 2017
- ↑ Greenville Online, "SCGOP Chairman Matt Moore approached to run for RNC head," March 31, 2016
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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