Dear Mr. Trump,

An “open letter” request for your consideration

Dear Mr. Trump,
This is to request your personal endorsement and acknowledgment  of the Republican National Convention of 2024 as the official and only authority to nominate the Republican candidate for President of the United States in 2024.
As I am sure you will recall, during the presidential nomination process in 2016, the political industry, collectively, did successfully gaslight most Americans into believing that “winning” delegates according to the process prescribed in Rule 16 of the Rules of the Republican Party would determine a “presumptive” nominee that the delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention would be forced to actually nominate.
You may also recall that many Republicans defended the First Amendment protected freedom and right of the delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention to vote for whomever they wished, without regard to the results of the primaries in the various states, unless and until the delegates to the 2016 convention voted to “bind” themselves to vote according to the primary results.
While the advocates of Critical Primary Theory succeeded in creating the illusion of the primaries picking the winner, it was actually the work of the two lawyers hired by your campaign that actually “sealed the deal” in 2016.
As you know, these two Jones Day lawyers were hired because of their experience and knowledge about the fact that a majority vote of the individual delegates in a secret ballot was actually the only way to clinch the Republican nomination.
William McGinley and Don McGahn successfully guided the 2016 Convention Rules Committee that resulted in the “binding” of delegates in 2016.
According to a Politico article by Meredith McGraw on 7/11/22, in 2024, “the presidential nominating process remains identical to 2016”, thus, the same rules will attempt to again create the illusion that Rule 16 binds delegates to vote according to pre-convention primary results.
Now, however, the work of your campaign in 2016 confirmed the premise of our 2016 book, “UNBOUND”, which made the case that only the convention delegates themselves could effect any “binding” provision.
Other campaigns are wiser now than they were in 2016.  Every candidate smart enough to be a good President of the United States will be aware of the fact that the primaries in 2024 will have no binding effect on the delegates, prior to the convention itself.
I know this may sound contrary at first reading; however, I also know that Mr. McGinley and Mr. McGahn can confirm the facts presented here.
Should it be your decision to seek the Republican nomination to run for President in 2024, I respectfully request that your announcement to do so be coupled with an acknowledgment that the Republican National Convention delegates will choose the candidate.  Primaries, in states where they continue to be conducted, would simply indicate voter “preferences”, and not be binding upon convention delegates.
Respectfully yours,
Curly Haugland

To my Substack readers, you should know that this letter was sent to many of Mr. Trump’s close advisers in July. Obviously, I do not have a direct line; however, I am certain that this request should not be “news” to Mr. Trump.