This wouldn’t be the first contested convention. The Democrats had one that took 102 ballots to resolve 100 years ago. It just makes sense that if you’re so weak a candidate that you can’t get over half the delegates on your side, that 60% who went against you has to be part of making the final decision on whether you survive the nomination process. If all 60% are not truly against you, you should make it anyway, but if they are, then that means the MAJORITY is against you and you don’t deserve the nomination.
There would be some weight behind that argument if they hadn’t run 17 candidates. When they got to. Iowa they were still running 2 debates worth...10 candidates wasn’t it, or 11.
So, the math even yesterday was still dividing the vote 4 ways.. At some point it must be recognized that dividing a number 4 ways gives a smaller answer than dividing it 2 or 3 ways.