Posted on 04/01/2016 3:17:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If Trump fails to clinch 1,237 delegates outright, already more than a hundred are poised to break from him on a second ballot.
The reality of a contested convention has become more real than ever, with Donald Trump facing the risk of losing Wisconsin next week, meaning he’d have to win roughly 60 percent of the remaining delegates to win the Republican presidential nomination outright.
If Trump heads into the convention without the magic number of 1,237, already more than a hundred delegates are poised to break with him on a second ballot, according to interviews with dozens of delegates, delegate candidates, operatives and party leaders.
In one of the starkest examples of Trump’s lack of support, out of the 168 Republican National Committee members — each of whom doubles as a convention delegate — only one publicly supports Trump, and she knows of only a handful of others who support him privately.....
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No Problem.
No GOP candidate will win anywhere.
Ever again.
The GOP is already the most hated
party EVER, except for the Nazi party, maybe.
The GOP, liars and EXEMPT, lie routinely
as they whore and allow illegals and felons
to run wild (far from their own gated and protected
communities).
VoterLivesMatter or maybe not to the GOPe.
Republicans ready to Flee the Party at a Brokered Convention.
#FleeTheLyingGOP
Your vote does not matter to the GOP Establishment as they will proceed into the 2016 Convention and alter their nominating process to be akin to sham elections in third world communist dictatorships.
Then I have bad news for you.
It wouldn’t break my heart of the GOP crumbled.
Hopefully Bernie could do the same for the democrat party.
I’ll take your comments a step further: No heterosexual white male will ever again be POTUS.
Ugly, but that is what the GOPe has in mind.
Bravo sierra.
Nominating anyone other than the vote and delegate leader is a big FU to everyone who voted for him. They better think several times before they do it because the reprecussiions will last well beyond the current election cycle. Republicans (as of 2014) were 25% of registered voters (Dems 33%, Independents 42%). Do they really want to risk losing maybe a third of those voters for good?
This is a very good reason why you can’t succeed with a revolution within the closed two-party system. The parties are the establishment and they are good and well purchased.
It is obvious that many in both parties - as well as the large cohort of Independents - were ready to bolt from status quo politics. But the parties will not allow that to happen from within, their bread is heavily buttered by maintaining tight control of our system of government.
An outside revolution needs to be truly outside.
Trump is the only way at this point to save the GOP majority in the house and senate... If they don’t nominate Trump, all his voters will not vote and it will be a bloodbath in voting like never seen before..
Good luck replacing his voters
Yeah “Buy this magazine or we’ll shoot this dog.”
More wishful thinking drama from the media.
It is the truth though— I will vote for Cruz if he wins— But the passion behind Trump at its core is the disgust for the party not listening to the voters, and this would push that disgust to a new level..
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