Nearly a month after giving up on the Republican presidential nomination, Texas Rep. Ron Paul says his delegate strategy has helped him amass a formidable block of support for the Republican National Convention.
In an e-mail to supporters Wednesday night, Paul said his campaign will send “nearly 200 bound delegates” to the Tampa convention, along with hundreds of Paul supporters bound to vote for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. “We will likely have as many as 500 supporters as delegates on the Convention floor,” Paul wrote. “That is just over 20 percent.