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Tim Schneider (Illinois)
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| Organization: | Republican Party of Illinois | ||
| Location: | Illinois | ||
| Education: | University of Illinois (B.S.) | ||
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Tim Schneider was elected as the chair of the Republican Party of Illinois in 2014. He resigned as chair on February 7, 2021.[1]
Career
Schneider earned a B.S. from the University of Illinois. He is an entrepreneur and owns the Golf Club of Illinois in Algonquin and Waterwerks car wash in Elgin. From 1984 to 1997, he served as Hanover Township trustee. Then, from 1997 to 2006, he was Hanover Township highway commissioner.[2][3]
He represented the 15th District on the Cook County, Ill., board of commissioners.[4]
Republican Party
Schneider was elected chair of the Republican Party of Illinois in 2014. On March 8, 2016, he stated that "the state organization will get behind the nominee for president whoever it is." This was in response to the fact that the Daily Herald reported that "some Republicans say backing businessman Donald Trump, if he wins, could hurt other Republicans facing tough races in the November general election."[3][5]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Schneider was an RNC delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Illinois. Schneider was one of 54 delegates from Illinois bound by state party rules to support Donald Trump at the convention.[6] 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
District-level delegates from Illinois were elected directly by voters at the state primary election on March 15, 2016. At-large delegates were selected at the state convention in May 2016. District-level delegates to the national convention could run as "uncommitted" delegates or they could declare their support for a specific candidate. 2016 Illinois GOP bylaws considered a vote for a delegate to be an "expression of sentiment" and "only advisory to the Delegate or Alternate Delegate so elected, unless otherwise directed by the Rules of the Republican Party." At-large delegates were bound to support the winner of the statewide vote in Illinois' primary election for an undetermined number of ballots.
Illinois primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Illinois, 2016
| Illinois Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
38.8% | 562,464 | 54 | |
| Ted Cruz | 30.2% | 438,235 | 9 | |
| John Kasich | 19.7% | 286,118 | 6 | |
| Marco Rubio | 8.7% | 126,681 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 0.8% | 11,469 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.8% | 11,188 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.3% | 4,718 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.2% | 3,428 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.2% | 2,737 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 1,540 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0.1% | 1,154 | 0 | |
| JoAnn Breivogel | 0% | 16 | 0 | |
| Totals | 1,449,748 | 69 | ||
| Source: The New York Times and Illinois State Board of Elections | ||||
Delegate allocation
Illinois had 69 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, Illinois' district-level delegates were "elected directly on the primary ballot and bound to the candidate for whom they [declared] themselves."[7][8]
Of the remaining 15 delegates, 12 served at large. Illinois' at-large delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won a plurality of the statewide primary vote 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.[7][8]
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See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ GOP Illinois Republican Party, "ILGOP Selects Don Tracy as Next Chairman," February 7, 2021
- ↑ Tim Schneider, "About Tim," accessed April 5, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Daily Herald, "New GOP chairman Schneider: Governor's race will be decided in Cook County," June 23, 2014
- ↑ AP, "Illinois Republican Party chairman Tim Schneider resigning," December 6, 2020
- ↑ Daily Herald, "Illinois GOP chairman: Get behind winner, even if it's Trump," March 8, 2016
- ↑ Illinois Review, "IL GOP meets at state convention in Peoria," May 21, 2016
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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