no, that’s not best
it has cost him many delegates. the rules may suck but everyone knew them going in.
he needs to get involved with “insider” games and fast.
it’s called a ground game.
If you haven’t already, watch the CNN interview with Paul Manafort. He said, with an extreme amount of confidence and certitude, that this isn’t going to a 2nd ballot. A few days later Michigan happened, where Trump delegates teamed with Kasich delegates to shut out Cruz delegates. I hear rumblings, unofficially, that Trump’s people have also struck a deal with Rubio delegates in key states.
Manafort also stated, after the Cruz camp was crowing about winning all the delegates in ND, that that wasn’t true. I think some of the “we got all the delegates” crowing from the Cruz camp is psyops. They did get them in CO, but a lot of the delegates they’re counting on from elsewhere are either unbound or bound to Trump on the first ballot.
Trump will have most or all of the bound delegates he needs. Manafort will only need to pull a few unbound delegates to ensure that this never gets to a second ballot.
I do think that Trump was caught flatfooted to an extent, but he’s catching up real quick.
A ground game is not the insider game
no such thing as a ground game
it is an insider’s game that is all it is
The media likes to confuse us and call this a ground game, it isn’t. If they called it what it really is, an insider’s game. It would make Cruz look bad, so they are not going to do that.