“Trump getting 48% of the popular vote and just shy of the delegates needed, if he doesn’t outright make it, should be the nominee.
He was the favorite of nearly 50% of the voters.”
Where in the hell are you getting your numbers?
You seriously need some new sources.
Deceptive Donnie has about 48% of the delegate count. That is not the popular vote. He got a lot of those delegates when there were multiple candidates, and candidates like Rubio, Kasich, and others cost Cruz delegates, because he could not reach certain thresholds due to the spreading out of the vote.
In every national poll I’ve seen that’s actually been between Cruz and Trump, Cruz beats the crap out of Trump. Trump benefited from an anti-Trump majority being spread out among several candidates.
The popular vote is only about 35% for Donnie.
There is about 65% of the vote that did not vote for Donnie.
He is not the favorite among 50% of the voters. In fact, he has a 65% unfavorable rating, and most polls show that he would lose to Clinton by over 10 points.
Shall I go on?
Every argument you make against Trump, is multiplied on a man that has two thirds of his level of delegates.
How do you get 48% of the delegates?
You get them by more people voting for you.
What part of that do you not grasp?