Need the delegates to win delegates who are sympathetic to my cause. Then you need to ask the question of what things will ook like on the floor. So youll tally up what the votes are, whether someone has a majority, how farther from the majority, how many unbound delegates there are. Certainly in the rules there will be a number of questions that will be asked. It is now, as the chairman said, the majority of delegates in eight states have to sign a petition. You need to be sure that you can get enough delegates to set your to get your name and nomination. It may be that at the rule committees youll ask the question, do i want to change that number eight . It changed in 2012 for purely pragmatic reasons having to do with that convention. When the 2016 rules Committee Sets the number, is it advantageous to a candidate to have that number at one, at three, at five, at eight, at 18, at 28 . And each campaign will need to make the calculation for that. So once they know how many states it
Stronger and stronger for the benefit of the mutual security of the world. Thank you all, and god bless. [applause] policycs Conference Also involved a conversation with Kevin Mccarthy steny hoyer. They are in interviewed by frank sayesno. Mr. Sesno well, good morning, everybody. Very nice to wake up with 18,000 friends in the middle of washington, d. C. I have had the great privilege of joining aipac for several years now in several stimulating discussions. And while the topics of those discussions have varied, there has been one thread that has remained the same and that is this commitment to bipartisanship when it comes to this issue and this is what were going to discuss and see and visit this morning. So in that spirit, id like to welcome our next two guests to the policy conference stage, two leaders in congress who exemplify what it means to stand on this issue together and across party lines. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming House Majority leader Kevin Mccarthy