he has gotten a lot more votes than Cruz. That can’t be ignored.
... he has gotten a lot more votes than Cruz. That can’t be ignored.
Trump leads by 210-220 delegates, maybe less since Cruz picked up 21 CO delegates this week and is expected to pick up the rest of them. I heard Trump is at home having his stump speech changed from I and me, polls and I am the greatest to add policy to it to try to “consolidate” support. Not sure he can pull it off a change after 10 months of trashing so many people.
Actually, it can.
In a primary with several candidates and no 50% reached, the legitimate thing is a runoff election. That is what the convention is supposed to do.
Suppose your state had 6 candidates for governor and the votes come in:
1 gets 30%
1 gets 20%
4 get 12.5% each - 3 had already dropped out, but low-info voters checked them anyway.
Does it make sense to just give it to the 30% guy and let 70% of the public pound sand?
Or give it to the one 12.5 percent guy just because he is so clueless you feel sorry for him?
Maybe the thing to do is the right thing - hold a runoff between the two top candidates and all 100% of the electorate get to have a say - 70% aren’t disenfranchised.
And everyone gets to have an EQUAL say in the final decision.