[irishMN]

Trump once decried this rule as arbitrary

It is arbitrary. Should Trump get the most delegates but fail to get the nomination shtf and those of us who write him in will hand the nomination to the dems. Convince me to vote otherwise please.

No really, try to convince me and every other person who wants trump that their nomination amounts to a pile of pig sh8t and that now we should vote for whomever the GOP decides is good enough for us.

I'm not addressing this to you 2nddivisionyet so please don't take offence, but rather anyone who wants to answer.

[CaptainMorgantown]

At the 1860 Republican convention, William Seward had 173.5 delegates on the first ballot. Abraham Lincoln had just 102. 233 votes were required to nominate.

Try to convince me why we should get behind this Lincoln fellow. I’m writing in Seward and throwing the election to Douglass or Breckenridge.