brokered convention

noun

, U.S. Politics.

1. a party convention in which many delegates are pledged to favorite sons who use their blocs of votes to bargain with leading candidates who lack a majority of delegate support.

Example Sentences

But if our better angels prevail, the GOP will ensure they have a "back up" to Trump in Nikki Haley, and even be willing to endure a brokered convention to save the country from him and Putin.

From Salon

In a sequential process often called a "brokered convention," various candidates who recognize they cannot win the nomination free their delegates to vote for others.

From Salon

Some have gone so far as to suggest that the party choose a new standard-bearer at this late date, perhaps through an old-fashioned “brokered convention” that disregards the results of the primary elections.

From Los Angeles Times

Some of his primary opponents are now mustering up faux courage, saying that, yes, Trump did lose; these opponents have always believed Trump lost, however, and I will continue to posit that candidates such as Pence, Scott and DeSantis are angling for the nomination via a brokered convention.

From Salon

“They are trying to change the laws so they can orchestrate a brokered convention at the National convention and steal the GOP nomination from Donald Trump,” Laura Loomer, a Trump supporter from Florida who has a history of spreading conspiracies to her large online following, wrote on Twitter on July 20.

From Los Angeles Times