The latest CNN poll has Trump at 47%, Cruz at 31%
Please explain why the Republican Establishment would take the nomination away from the most popular candidate, and hand it to a less-popular candidate, rather than to a loyal Establishment member like Romney?
Trump is the great deal maker ... really great deal maker.
If he can’t make this deal, then he is just an almost great deal maker.
If this goes to a contested convention, there are two options.
1. If Ted really is a ‘hated outsider’ they’ll NEVER let him have it. He’ll be used to bring down Trump, then cast aside.
2. We find out that Ted isn’t the ‘outsider’ that we thought and he’s crowned by the GOP as one of their own.
Either way, I don’t like it.
To what degree does that situation automatically advantage or disadvantage the delegate leader?
Actually, I just found this article A Contested Republican National Convention: How It Would Work which was very informative.
It got me to thinking, and I realized something:
Trump's got this. He's going to have a majority of delegates. But if he goes into the convention a few votes short, it's not going to matter.
This is the man who wrote The Art Of The Deal...