I'm going to prove them wrong again. Hager and Earley have been busy with the tedious work of contacting prospective convention delegates, thousands of whom will converge on Richmond to approve a slate for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general. Under the state party's elaborate rules, the GOP's 135 city and county committees will meet between Feb. 26 and March 31 to select their convention delegates. Anyone who is a registered voter can become a delegate, the strong majority of whom are activists keenly interested in Republican affairs. The result is that the clear front-runner for the nomination probably will be known about two months before the convention, because the state party headquarters in early April will compile a list of delegates and their favored candidates.
Every locality has a specific number of delegate votes on the convention floor.
Hager and Earley are spending considerable time and money to encourage as many of their supporters as possible to become delegates in a contest that many Republicans, including Hager, had hoped to avoid somehow. News Jobs AP Shopping Archives Entertain.