Since 1880, there have been eight contested GOP conventions and in five of those, the eventual winner did not go into the convention with a plurality of delegates.
In the 1976 Republican convention, it was the unbound delegates moving toward President Gerald Ford instead of Ronald Reagan that handed Ford the nomination that year. Ford held a slight lead going into the convention, but was shy of an outright majority.
That's how conventions work. Of course trump has announced that he will have 1400 delegates, so why scream so loudly for Cruz to drop out.
Trump wants every Republican voter to anoint him as the nominee, before the vote at the convention even happens. This would place him with a plurality of delegates as the nominee. That would be wrong. That would be a violation of every rule.
Trump keeps screaming about the rules being violated, but he is calling for just that, a gross violation of the process.
Even the Democrat convention delegates can pick someone other than Hillary or Sanders.
I have a feeling that with the negatives generated in our process, and the Dem process, that the Dem nominee will be Biden, Warren, Gore, Kerry, anyone but Hillary or Sanders.
Once that is done, American voters will vote for who they consider to be the least offense, and we will be faced with a socialist President, again. I will vote for Trump if he is our nominee, but I fear that the scenario above will happen.
Reagan wanted a future in politics. So did Seward. So has every loser of a contested convention until now. So they sucked it up, smiled, endorsed the winner and went away quietly.
Something tells me that if Trump wins the most votes, states, and delegates, and the GOPe takes it away from him, smiling and making nice will be the last thing on his mind. And after the debacle of a contested convention, enough of the 70% of Republican primary voters who are saying they do not want a contested convention will stay home so that the GOPe’s handpicked designated loser has no way to win.
The next President will be named Trump or Clinton, and if it’s Clinton, we will have Cruz to thank.