David Asp
| David Asp | |
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| Republican National Convention, 2016 | |
| Status: | District-level delegate |
| Congressional district: | 3 |
| State: | Minnesota |
| Bound to: | Unknown |
| Delegates to the RNC 2016 | |
| Calendar and delegate rules overview • Types of delegates • Delegate rules by state • State election law and delegates • Delegates by state | |
| David Asp | |
| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P. |
| Role: | Partner |
| Location: | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Expertise: | Attorney |
| Affiliation: | Republican |
| Education: | University of Minnesota Law School (J.D., 2004)[1] |
| Website: | Official website |
David Asp was a district-level delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Minnesota.[2] In the Minnesota Republican caucuses on March 1, 2016, Marco Rubio won 17 delegates, Ted Cruz won 13, and Donald Trump won eight. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which candidate Asp was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how Minnesota’s Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[3]
Career
David Asp was a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of State until he joined the law firm Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P., which is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Washington, D.C.[1] Asp specializes in commercial, health care, and employment litigation as well as campaign finance and election law.[1]
Asp sits on the board of the Community Action Partnership of Suburban Hennepin County. He also works with the Volunteer Lawyers Network, Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, and the TwinWest Chamber of Commerce.[1]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
RNC Rules Committee
- See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016
Asp was a member of the RNC Rules Committee, a 112-member body responsible for crafting the official rules of the Republican Party, including the rules that governed the 2016 Republican National Convention.[4]
Appointment process
The convention Rules Committee in 2016 consisted of one male and one female delegate from each state and territorial delegation. The Rules of the Republican Party required each delegation to elect from its own membership representatives to serve on the Rules Committee.
Delegate rules
Delegates from Minnesota to the Republican National Convention were elected at district conventions and the state convention in May 2016. Delegates from Minnesota were bound to the candidate to whom they were allocated through the first round of voting at the national convention unless their candidate "withdrew" from the race prior to the convention.
Minnesota caucus results
- See also: Presidential election in Minnesota, 2016
| Minnesota Republican Caucus, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
| Donald Trump | 21.4% | 24,473 | 8 | |
 Marco Rubio |
36.2% | 41,397 | 17 | |
| Ted Cruz | 29% | 33,181 | 13 | |
| John Kasich | 5.7% | 6,565 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 7.4% | 8,422 | 0 | |
| Other | 0.2% | 207 | 0 | |
| Totals | 114,245 | 38 | ||
| Source: Minnesota Secretary of State and CNN | ||||
Delegate allocation
Minnesota had 38 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 24 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's eight congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 10 percent of the vote in a district in order to be eligible to receive any of that district's delegates.[5][6]
Of the remaining 14 delegates, 11 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 10 percent of the statewide vote in order to be eligible to receive any of the state's at-large delegates. If a candidate won more than 85 percent of the statewide caucus vote, he or she received all of the state's at-large and district-level delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[5][6]
See also
- Republican National Convention, 2016
- 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
- RNC delegate guidelines from Minnesota, 2016
- Republican delegate rules by state, 2016
- Presidential election, 2016
- Presidential candidates, 2016
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P., "David Asp," accessed July 1, 2016
- ↑ MN GOP, "National Delegates and Alternates," accessed June 20, 2016
- ↑ To build our list of the state and territorial delegations to the 2016 Republican National Convention, Ballotpedia relied primarily upon official lists provided by state and territorial Republican parties, email exchanges and phone interviews with state party officials, official lists provided by state governments, and, in some cases, unofficial lists compiled by local media outlets. When possible, we included what type of delegate the delegate is (at-large, district-level, or RNC) and which candidate they were bound by state and national party bylaws to support at the convention. For most delegations, Ballotpedia was able to track down all of this information. For delegations where we were not able to track down this information or were only able to track down partial lists, we included this note. If you have additional information on this state's delegation, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's list of 2016 RNC Rules Committee members is based on an official list from the Republican National Committee obtained by Ballotpedia on June 24, 2016
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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