The California Republican Party has asked the Secretary of State to list eleven presidential candidates on its primary ballot: Bush, Carson, Christie, Cruz, Fiorina, Huckabee, Kasich, Paul, Rubio, Santorum, and Trump. Some Republican officials argued that Rand Paul should be omitted, on the grounds that he didn’t participate in either debate on January 14. However, the majority of Republican decision-makers did support including Paul. Thanks to Mark Seidenberg for this news.
I notice that Jim Gilmore has been left out.
Richard:
Are they the last ballot-qualified party in California to notify the Secretary of State’s Office about their Presidential Primary list?
Democrats haven’t supplied a list yet. The AIP has sent in a final list of 15 names, but I am waiting to see if the Secretary of State honors their list. That won’t be until after February 8. In 2012 the Secretary of State deleted over half the AIP candidates, something that had never been done to any party in California before.