Party insiders say delegates from the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union and United Voice – two left-aligned unions – have signalled in-principle willingness to vote with the right against any platform amendment that would prohibit a Labor government using boat turnbacks in the future.
Ohio's 21 "super delegates" — party insiders who are free to vote for a candidate regardless of the popular vote — do not figure into today's totals.
Cruz is taking a behind-the-scenes approach to stopping Trump, appealing to party insiders to try to sway delegates.
At the same time, signs are emerging that Cruz is outmaneuvering Trump in battles among party insiders for the loyalty of delegates.
Collusion is the new "rigged," the word that Trump uses to argue that there is not a free market in elections, that he is not getting the delegates he deserves, that Party insiders want to steal what's his.
Florida's delegates will most likely be counted, insiders predict, but not before the party settles on a presidential candidate.
And he's only the Republican nominee because he won an insider-dominated convention where State Senator Kim Ward threw her delegates to him over her rival Guy Reschenthaler, who would've been a stronger general election candidate.
Last week, he designated a longtime Washington insider, Paul J. Manafort, to oversee efforts to ensure that Trump has the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination.
One study of the 1952 election showed that eighty per cent of delegates to the two Conventions were selected by party insiders, with no participation by rank-and-file party members.
It has been used to justify delegating regulatory functions, such as listing rules or policing insider trading, to exchanges, when these would be better handled by disinterested external regulators.
