WE ARE THE UNINTIMIDATABLE.
Posted on 03/03/2016 10:23:51 AM PST by RoosterRedux
An an interview with CNN’s David Axelrod, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said that a brokered convention would not be fair to Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
A brokered convention could happen if Trump fails to reach the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination on the first ballot of delegate voting. Delegates are not bound to vote according to their states’ preference after the first ballot and could conceivably switch their vote to a candidate other than Trump.
“If he got two thirds of what he needs, which I think he’s well on his way to doing — for us to steal from him is not going to help the party,” Graham told Axelrod’s “Axe Files” podcast.
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If no candidate goes into the convention with 1,237 delegates ready to vote for him, then he does not have any more of a claim to be the nominee than any of the other candidates who do not have 1,237 delegates ready to vote for each of them. As a result, the convention will be contested.
If Donald Trump is the great negotiator he claims to be, he should have an advantage in making one or more deals with other candidates to achieve the 1,237 delegates willing to vote for him.
It would seem to be that if the convention is to be brokered, the candidate who is/claims to be the best broker in the world should have an advantage not a disadvantage.
You're right... we would leave. And be better for it.
IMO any election, whether primary or general, where someone is elected by less than 50% is unfair.
Of course it would be unfair.
Which is why the GOP convention rules commitees will force it as soon as they convene.
For that to happen, the Cruz campaign will have to pick up the pace and the Trump campaign to tail off. By that time, Trump would have lost the air of inevitability. Regardless of what happened in such a convention, there are going to be angry supporters who might not come back by November. I don't see anyone who is acceptable enough for everyone to rally around.
I haven't even determined if I will vote for Trump in the general election but if he is the clear choice of the primary voters, then he shouldn't be denied by the party establishment.
Trying to deny Trump the nomination through devious means will backfire big on the party establishment if Trump becomes President. Personally, I believe that on Trump's pledges to reform the establishment, his bark is far worse than his bite will be. However, if provoked, he is vindictive and he might actually reform things to spite the political establishment.
I think the main reason they are trotting Romney out is that Rubio won’t continue calling Trump a con man because it did not pay off on Tuesday. They need someone else to do it.
Actually Cruz is on pace to pick up 2/3 of the delegates needed, but Trump is at a 90% pace.
If he only gets two thirds of what he needs then he has not won anything.
Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
You beat me to it. If Trump shows up with only 825, approx. 1/3 of the total delegates, that means that 2/3 thirds of the voters don’t support him. Why should he have any special preference or consideration at the convention?
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I think he makes a good point, are you going to give it someone with Less delegates, someone like Jeb Bush? Is that what it would take to make you happy, how about Mitt Romney, would that make you happy?
I don’t see this as a big issue because even with all the efforts by GOPe I think Trump will have the votes and have the number of delegates to take the nomination on the first ballot. All the talk of the Anti Trump however I deplore. I would like to see Cruz as POTUS but I don’t see a way for it to happen but the last thing I want to do is sabotage another Republican to help Cruz win.
“If Trump gets the nomination or not we are witnessing the end of the republican party. A new party will be necessary after the election, it will limp along for a few years, and will see many defections and an ideological divide continue to manifest. I’m sorry I can’t support Trump, he’s a vulgar duffus. It would be like voting for a crazy uncle who thinks we’ve been visited by extra terrestrials or we never landed on the moon!”
Your Thorazine drip is empty....please replace it.
He's confused, it's mating season for skunks. 100% of the road kill skunks are males.
Which would mean that Trump's campaign really fell off if he ended with about 2/3 of the necessary votes. The air of inevitability would be replaced by the perception of campaign taking on water. Hardly a position of strength going into a contested convention.
Oh good thanks! That was a problem, there back in! We didn’t land on the moon, we are! being visited by extraterrestrials, Bush lied about Iraq weapon of mass destruction, McCain is a looser because he let himself get tortured for 7 years and Trump isn’t an ignoramus, off to pols to vote for Trump!
My post was to criticize Lindsey Graham for his lose reasoning about the math involved. If Trump has 2/3 of what he needs, that means he has 1/3 of the total available. With 1650 gone somewhere else it’s possible, even likely, that Cruz would have very near that amount, so why single out Trump as having “dibs” on the nomination?
I am not saying that is how things will work out, I’m just saying Lindsey Graham is still a loser and doesn’t appear to have much reasoning ability.
I disavow Romney, McCain and Lindsey Graham
“Fair”???
What’s that got to do with anything?
It’s in the damn rules!
No 1200 delegate threshold on the first ballot, then delegates are unbound for round 2.
How is that not “fair” to Trump?
And why is Linseed all worked up over it?
WE ARE THE UNINTIMIDATABLE.
First time I can remember agreeing with Linda Graham.
The first smart thing I have every heard from this guy.
They’d be within their rights to do so. It may not make political sense but they could by the rules.
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