If Trump has the most delegates and they don't give him the nomination.
I'm done voting for Republicans forever. Comprende?
These are the rules Republican candidates have lived under since the founding of the party . They have lived with the same rules for 160 years .William Seward in 1860 got 41.5 percent of the delegates in the 1st ballot .Lincoln won the nomination .
Trump and his supporters should understand that by now. Majority wins ,not plurality . If he goes into the convention with a plurality that is close to a majority then let's see how his trumpeted negotiating skills come into play. If he is as good at horse trading as he says he is ,he should have no trouble in the 2nd and subsequent ballots .
He talks about fairness as if he is a Dem. Is it unfair that a plurality of electors is not enough to win the Presidency ? That if you don't secure a majority of the electors that the Presidential election is then decided by the House of Representatives ? Yes it probably is an unfair process ,but that is the Constitutional rules of the game.
But I hear the 'will of the people' will be denied .That is simply not true . A less than 50 % approval rating ,and going into the convention with less than 50% of the delegates does not mean that the candidate is carrying the mandate of the majority of the people.
You can’t steal something from someone who has no legitimate claim to it, and the rules do not give someone a legitimate claim to the nomination without a majority of the delegates.
If an unrepresentative manufactured "majority" wins, the victory will be pyrrhic.
What do you think it is when many of the states allow crossover voting ? What do you think it is when some states are winner take all ,and others have various concoctions of proportional delegate designations ...when some have caucus and some have primaries ,and some select delegates in state conventions ? The primary process was never an exercise in democracy .
Voters over parties, state sovereignty, fixed law.
but not the democratic will of the people. It doesn't surprise me that Trump doesn't get the process. He ran on a lark and did not expect to be where he's at . But since there is a good chance that he is going to be the party nominee; perhaps he should take a few minutes to familiarize himself with the party rules and traditions.
