Donald Trump is right: The Republican nominating process is a scam

Business Insider ^ | Josh Barro

[Sybeck1]

If Donald Trump arrives at the Republican National Convention with less than a majority of delegates bound to him, his message will be simple: I got way more votes than anyone else, and party insiders are conspiring against me to give the nomination to somebody else.

This complaint will be true, it will be valid, and anti-Trump Republicans will dismiss it at their peril.

There has been a weird epidemic of short-sighted schadenfreude among Republican insiders over the last week, as they have watched Trump's campaign blunder through the intricacies of delegate selection.

It is true that Trump's campaign is doing badly at the small stuff, and it's costing him delegates. Trump failed to organize for Colorado's complex delegate conventions, in which voters never got to express a direct preference for a candidate. He has just started the process of selecting hundreds of delegate candidates in California. He has failed to stack relevant convention committees with his allies.

[DungeonMaster]

“But here’s the thing: Democratic legitimacy is not just about following the rules as written. It’s about having a set of rules designed to produce a result in line with voter preferences. In some states, the Republican nominating rules are designed to ignore the will of the voters.”

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That is where Cruz really stepped in it. Cruz is smart enough to figure out the rules and ignores the bigger picture.

[Da Bilge Troll]

"willing to let it slide as long as it seems to be helping their guy "

Don't mistake my comment as an endorsement of the process. However, it is the process, the rules were published ahead of time and those rules were followed.

That's a pretty good definition of "fair", don't you think?

[newgeezer]

In some states, the Republican nominating rules are designed to ignore the will of the non-Republican voters.

There. Fixed it for you.