Seeing Trump as vulnerable, GOP elites now eye a contested convention

Washington Post ^ | March 7, 2016 | By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa

[Innovative]

The presentation is an 11th-hour rebuttal to the fatalism permeating the Republican establishment: Slide by slide, state by state, it calculates how Donald Trump could be denied the nomination.

Marco Rubio wins Florida. John Kasich wins Ohio. Ted Cruz notches victories in the Midwest and Mountain West. And the results in California and other states are jumbled enough to leave Trump three dozen delegates short of the 1,237 required — forcing a contested convention in Cleveland in July.

[Innovative]

Republicans should be focusing on supporting their front runner in the general election, instead of plotting to sink his nomination, making the general election a cake walk for Hillary.

[Farmer Dean]

Do these fools really,really want to see what happens after a brokered convention this time?

[Hugin]

Memo to GOP: the guy with the most delegate gets the nomination, or bye-bye GOP.

[Pollster1]

The whole point of this election has been the voters telling GOP leadership that the leadership is totally clueless. If they use a contested convention to stick us with an also-ran or someone completely new, they will permanently lose the base. They need to watch the movie Network.

[roses of sharon]

The GOP is dead, they just don’t know it yet.

[WENDLE]

SUICIDE!! Why not make America Great again?

[Lurkinanloomin]

The RNC/GOP is owned by The Cheap Labor Express.

Their mission is to deny the citizens the opportunity to elect a President who will enforce the laws and secure the borders.

[Samwell Tarly]

I won't be voting for Trump. I won't be voting for any other candidate. It's a matter of conscience: there are standards which I hold myself to.

That being said, I am having a helluva fun time watching Donald Trump make the GOPe tear itself apart.

[jospehm20]

Yep. Zombie party.

[djstex]

If the GOPe wants to take Trump out we lose another 4 years of more Obama with Hillary/Criminal. Wow, Trump is self-funding, runs his own campaign without the usual strings attached. It's very teling where this goes if Trump loses. Trump only loses to those that think Cruz could actually beat the GOP establishment and The Crooked Clintons. Truth! Republicans devour their own and We lose!

[stanne]

Vulnerable

These guys are delusional

Completely

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

And dangerous.

[detch]

After the Ohio and Florida primaries on March 15, Trump and Cruz should agree to run as a team.

The one with the fewer delegates drops out and throws his support to the other, who then selects the 2nd place guy to be his VP candidate.

Either of these two men would make a great President and together would knock off Hillary in the general election.

The winner is the only one left standing and has all the delegates necessary, way more than 1,237 necessary.

Screw you GOP establishment, Reince Reibus, Mitt Romney, and the other PHONIES, who are really despicable and not interested in GOP voters..

Suddenly we have a GOP T-E-A-M and we can all unite behind and overwhelm HILLARY CLINTON THE CRIMINAL.

[MNDude]

believe it or not, there are a few Freepers that support this.

[nascarnation]

It would be a disaster.
Probably resulting in Democrat control of WH, Congress and SCOTUS for decades.

[HarleyLady27]

This is what the media, talking heads, GOPe, RNC, RINO base, super packs, special interest groups, Wall Street want you to believe...

In fact, Trump is doing great, he has added more voters to the Republican party than any candidate in history, he has more people at his rallies than any other candidate in history, even obuma, he packs football stadium's, basketball arenas, fair grounds, ball rooms, convention centers and there are more people outside wanting to get in...

Doing bad? You are kidding or your drinking the ‘Kool-Aid’ from the Jim Jones era...

[20yearsofinternet]

They’ll get it, too.

[sheik yerbouty]

Their malevolence is tempered by their incompetence...

[usafa92]

If these a$$holes steal this from Trump I will either write him in or vote outright for Hillary. The GOP needs to die in a historic blowout to consign it to history. I’d rather see this Republic die by the hand of Hillary, who is at least honest about her intentions than by the Machiavellian GOP that pretends to be an ally while destroying the country all the same. If someone beats Trump fairly for the nomination, I will hold my nose and vote for them. This includes Cruz, who I count also as a member of the establishment and thus is also the enemy. But if they steal it, I’m done.

[Bogie]

You have to understand that Hillary Clinton is one of them.