Nobody is robbing delegates from Trump. No one is buying delegates. Trump failed to follow the process in place to elect delegates for the national convention.
What Trump did in Louisianna is akin to filing a lawsuit and then ignoring the rules of procedure that govern (civil) lawsuits within the judical system.
Ignorant of the legal process, Trump essentially wants to skip the trial and go straight to closing arguments in front of a jury that he had no interest in picking.
RE: Oh ... so why did he win?
He won the plurality of delegates ( that is when the votes were split among those who did not vote for him ).
RE: You know I am trying to understand the cruz voters here - so let me get this straight - if you win but you are honest you can lose your delegates to the one who lost but is better in the game of buying delegates?
I don’t know what you mean by “buying”. If you can prove that money changed hands or bribes were made, then let’s have the evidence.
What happened as I understand is, is that the Rubio delegates had their SECOND choice if Rubio were to drop out ( that is they become unbound ). Since Rubio did drop out, their second choice was for Cruz.
Simple as that.
TO prove that there were shenanigans, the first thing I’d like to know is this -— were this rules regarding unbound delegates in place long before the primaries? or were the rules changed only recently after Trump won the plurality of delegates?
If the latter, then you have a case for calling it shenanigans, if not, then that’s just the rules of the primaries.