Peter Goldberg

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Peter Goldberg
Basic facts
Organization:	Republican Party of Alaska
Role:	National committeeman
Location:	Alaska
Education:	•Brooklyn College (B.S., biology, 1970) •Utah State University (M.S., wildlife science, 1977)

Peter Goldberg is the national committeeman for the Republican Party of Alaska. He is a former chair of the Alaska GOP and a retired Army colonel.

Career

Goldberg earned a B.S. in biology from Brooklyn College in 1970 and an M.S. in wildlife science from Utah State University in 1977. He relocated to Alaska in 2007 following his retirement from the Army as a colonel after 37 years of active duty and reserve service.

Political career

Goldberg was elected vice chair of District 32 for the Republican Party of Alaska (Alaska GOP) in 2008. He was later elected chair of District 26 in 2012.

The Alaska GOP unanimously elected Goldberg as the party's vice chair in February 2013. He became chair of the Alaska GOP when the position was vacated in April 2013. The former chair, Debbie Brown, "had her title as party chair stripped after the State Executive Committee decided she hadn’t done enough during her short tenure to raise money," according to Alaska Dispatch News.

Goldberg did not seek re-election as the Alaska GOP chair in 2016. He was elected to a four-year term as the party's national committeeman on April 30, 2016.

2016 presidential election

CNN reported in March 2016 that Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R) contacted state Republican Party chairmen in states where he won delegates during his 2016 presidential campaign. According to CNN, Rubio told the chairmen that he would like to keep the delegates he secured and that the suspension of his presidential campaign was not intended to release any delegates bound to him at the time. Goldberg "had reallocated the delegates in his state to 14 each for Trump and Cruz after Rubio dropped out," but "after receiving the letter from Rubio and consulting with his lawyers, he decided to make the five delegates Rubio won in Alaska bound to him for the first ballot -- and then divide them between Trump and Cruz on the second ballot."

2016 Republican National Convention

See also: Republican National Convention, 2016

Goldberg was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Alaska. Goldberg was one of 11 delegates from Alaska bound by state party rules to support Donald Trump at the convention. 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.

Delegate rules

See also: RNC delegate guidelines from Alaska, 2016 and Republican delegates from Alaska, 2016

Delegates from Alaska to the Republican National Convention were elected at the Alaska GOP state convention in April 2016. The Alaska Republican Party rules for 2016 required delegates to vote at the convention for the candidate to whom they pledged their support at the time of their election at the state convention. Delegates could vote for a different candidate than the one to whom they pledged their support only if, after the second round of voting, that candidate had received the lowest number of votes. If a candidate "dropped out" of the race prior to the national convention, his or her delegates were reapportioned among the remaining candidates.

Alaska caucus results

See also: Presidential election in Alaska, 2016

Alaska Republican Caucus, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes	Delegates
Ted Cruz	36.4%	7,973	12
Donald Trump	33.5%	7,346	11
Marco Rubio	15.1%	3,318	5
Ben Carson	10.9%	2,401	0
John Kasich	4.1%	892	0
Other	0%	0	0
Totals		21,930	28
Source: CNN and The New York Times

Delegate allocation

See also:2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules

Alaska had 28 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, three were district-level delegates (three for the state's single congressional district). District-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 13 percent of the statewide vote in order to be eligible to win a share of Alaska's district delegates.

Of the remaining 25 delegates, 22 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 13 percent of the statewide vote in order to be eligible to win a share of Alaska's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as pledged delegates to the Republican National Convention.

Top influencers by state

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In 2016, Ballotpedia identified Peter Goldberg as a top influencer by state. We identified top influencers across the country through several means, including the following:

• Local knowledge of our professional staff
• Surveys of activists, thought leaders and journalists from across the country and political spectrum
• Outreach to political journalists in each state who helped refine our lists

Recent news

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See also

• Alaska
• Republican Party of Alaska
• Republican National Committee
• Marco Rubio presidential campaign, 2016
• Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016
• Ted Cruz presidential campaign, 2016

External links

• Republican Party of Alaska

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