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Pat Thomas
| Pat Thomas | |
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| Republican National Convention, 2016 | |
| Status: | Delegate |
| State: | Missouri |
| Bound to: | Unknown |
| Delegates to the RNC 2016 | |
| Calendar and delegate rules overview • Types of delegates • Delegate rules by state • State election law and delegates • Delegates by state | |
| Pat Thomas | |
| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of Missouri |
| Role: | Secretary |
| Affiliation: | Republican |
Pat Thomas was elected treasurer of the Missouri Republican Party in 2017.[1] She also served on the Credentials Committee for the 2020 Republican National Convention.
Thomas was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Missouri.[2] In Missouri’s presidential primary election on March 15, 2016, Donald Trump won 37 delegates, and Ted Cruz won 15 delegates. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which candidate Thomas was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how Missouri's Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[3]
Career
Pat Thomas was the secretary of the Republican Party of Missouri.[4] In 2014, Thomas was the author of a letter to then-state party chairman Ed Martin that criticized Martin for his involvement in another state party's affairs. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Martin asked the national Republican Party to investigate campaign ads attacking Chris McDaniel, a candidate aiming to unseat Sen. Thad Cochran (R) in Mississippi. Thomas composed a letter to Martin which read, in part, "This is an outrageous infringement on the Mississippi State Party, and ultimately an infringement on the sovereignty of each state party. While I don't agree with items that have come out from BOTH campaigns, I am not in Mississippi and do not feel it is ours or the national parties right to get involved in an individual ... campaign. If he is going to put us into the controversy, I think he should have had the decency to ask us first."[5]
In May 2016, Thomas was selected as a delegate to the Republican National Convention. It was the fourth time she had been selected, according to The Missouri Times. She told the paper that the slate of delegates from Missouri was a unity slate that had worked out its differences prior to the national convention, saying, "The slate that won was a good combination of multiple things: different campaigns, different ideologies — some people are more fiscal conservative, others are more social conservative. I think it’s a good blend of grassroots versus the donor. I definitely don’t envy the task of the chairman because I think that was a hard task, getting what he thought was a reasonable slate when you have factions that are as different as Trump and Cruz."[6]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
RNC Rules Committee
- See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016
Thomas 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.[7]
When asked by The Kansas City Star how she felt about a movement involving some GOP delegates to pass a rules change at the convention that would allow delegates bound to Donald Trump to vote for a different candidate, Thomas stated, “I’m willing to listen to both sides ... I’m not big on doing a knee-jerk reaction with rules.”[8]
Thomas also served on the Rules Committee in 2004 and 2012.
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
Delegates from Missouri to the 2016 Republican National Convention were elected at district conventions on April 30, 2016, and at the state convention on May 20-21, 2016. Missouri delegates were bound on the first ballot at the national convention unless their candidate "releases his or her delegates, dies, withdraws or becomes inactive," according to Missouri GOP bylaws.
Missouri primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Missouri, 2016
| Missouri Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
| Chris Christie | 0.2% | 1,681 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.4% | 3,361 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 0.9% | 8,233 | 0 | |
 Donald Trump |
40.8% | 383,631 | 37 | |
| Marco Rubio | 6.1% | 57,244 | 0 | |
| Ted Cruz | 40.6% | 381,666 | 15 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0.1% | 732 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 615 | 0 | |
| John Kasich | 10.1% | 94,857 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.2% | 1,777 | 0 | |
| Jim Lynch | 0% | 100 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.2% | 2,148 | 0 | |
| Other | 0.3% | 3,225 | 0 | |
| Totals | 939,270 | 52 | ||
| Source: The New York Times and Missouri Secretary of State | ||||
Delegate allocation
Missouri had 52 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 24 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's eight congressional districts). Of the remaining 28 delegates, 25 served at large. The state's district-level and at-large delegates were both allocated on a proportional basis. The plurality winner in each congressional district received all three of the district's delegates, as well as two at-large delegates. The remaining nine at-large delegates were allocated to the plurality winner of the statewide primary vote. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the statewide vote, he or she received all of the state's district-level and at-large delegates.[9][10] In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[9][10]
Recent news
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External links
See also
- Republican National Convention, 2016
- 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
- RNC delegate guidelines from Missouri, 2016
- Republican delegate rules by state, 2016
- Presidential election, 2016
- Presidential candidates, 2016
Footnotes
- ↑ Springfield News Leader, "Graves elected as Missouri's new GOP chairman," January 7, 2017
- ↑ Missouri GOP, "National Convention delegate election results," accessed June 28, 2016
- ↑ To build our list of the state and territorial delegations to the 2016 Republican National Convention, Ballotpedia relied primarily upon official lists provided by state and territorial Republican parties, email exchanges and phone interviews with state party officials, official lists provided by state governments, and, in some cases, unofficial lists compiled by local media outlets. When possible, we included what type of delegate the delegate is (at-large, district-level, or RNC) and which candidate they were bound by state and national party bylaws to support at the convention. For most delegations, Ballotpedia was able to track down all of this information. For delegations where we were not able to track down this information or were only able to track down partial lists, we included this note. If you have additional information on this state's delegation, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.
- ↑ Republican Party of Missouri, "State committee," accessed June 30, 2016
- ↑ St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "Missouri GOP official chides chairman Martin over his Mississippi `infringement,'" July 10, 2014
- ↑ The Missouri Times, "State Republicans unite at convention and elect slate," May 23, 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
- ↑ Kansas City Star, "Anti-Trump forces hope to open GOP convention but struggle for footing," June 22, 2016
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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