“However if Trump can also be kept from getting 1,237 votes, then things open up on the second ballot.”
Trump will go to the convention with nearly Three million more votes than Teddy....Steal the nomination, and reap the whirlwind.
You did learn in school, didn't you, that in the party's convention to nominate a presidential candidate—and even in the president elections—the established rules do not always require that the person with the most popular votes wins.