Being good at one thing does not make you good at another.
Trump has relied on free tv time and big rallies without bothering to learn how the states assign delegates.
That is just a fact.
And, you assume that Trump wasn’t aware of how delegates are allocated? Now, let’s breakdown what you said - just because someone is good at one thing doesn’t mean they are good at another. This is true, and it’s also true for Cruz - he might be as good lawyer, but, he’d be a lousy president. Being in the Senate doesn’t prepare one for the presidency - just ask Obama. I think Trump chose not to spend money in those rigged states - it would have been like flushing it down the drain - he knew what was coming, and allowed it to happen to expose just how corrupt lying Ted is.
This can happen to a citizen candidate. Why wouldn’t it?
Americans are generally astounded to now learn the same as TRUMP, that elections have nothing to do with the people or their vote.
You may win sweepingly in twice as many states as your opponent, and you may earn the vast majority of the people, and their vote, coast to coast, and you may sweep the delegates in those states that you have earned, by your great victory.
You go to a convention and your victories are meaningless, your delegates were rejected and replaced with those of your opponent and you LOSE.
The American voter has been awakened, on both sides of the aisle. They are pissed.
Nobody wants to be you. To have to make your defense for fraud is one sorry argument to have to make. Nobody wants to die on that hill that sneers at democracy.