BURLINGAME – (INT) – California finally comes into play as the June 7th primary election caps months of raucous presidential campaigning.

The California Republican Party is holding its state convention this weekend in the small Bay Area city of Burlingame. All three remaining active candidates for the Republican nomination - business tycoon Donald Trump, Senator Ted Cruz, and Ohio Governor John Kasich - will all be speaking

The convention will be the "opening bell" for the fight for 172 delegates on the Republican side, awarded largely by congressional district on a three-to-a-district, winner-take-all basis. The final result may very well decide whether Trump goes into July's Republican National Convention in Cleveland as the presumptive nominee of the party, or whether he will fall short and delegates will face the "open convention" scenario that many have talked about.

On May 9th, mail-in ballots will start to be mailed out in California, for an election that will basically take place over the course of an entire month. While many will vote on June 7, it is expected that a majority of votes cast in the primary election will take place through the U.S. Postal Service.

Meantime, county election officials are recruiting polling place workers for the June 7th primary.

Story Date: May 1, 2016