Vermont
Vt. GOP waives rule about supporting convicted felons to back Trump
MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) – The Vermont GOP will officially back former president Donald Trump despite him being a convicted felon.
The party has several criteria on who they can support, and those rules exclude people convicted of felonies.
Trump– the party’s standard-bearer– was convicted of 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records to cover up payments to an adult film star.
So the Vermont GOP’s executive committee recently voted to waive its rule and will now support Trump.
“We just felt that the process hasn’t played out completely and because he’s our presidential nominee, people on the executive committee felt it was important to address,” Vermont Republican Party Chair Paul Dame said.
Democratic Party leaders call the decision to waive the rule morally bankrupt and call the former president a threat to democracy.
At next month’s national convention, nine of Vermont’s 17 delegates will go for Ambassador Nikki Haley and eight for former president Trump.
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