You end up with a brokered convention when no candidate garners enough delegates during the primaries to win the nomination. Once the convention votes and nobody wins they begin to make deals etc.. Fred is the only candidate that is acceptable to all factions (security conservatives, immigration conservatives, pro-life conservatives, and economy conservatives) within the party. It is very likely they then would propose him as the nominee and he would gain a majority from those delegates who voted originally, but unsuccessfully, for the candidate they were a delegate for. In the old days (I'm dating myself!) that is almost always how you ended up with a nominee.  U.S. Army Retired |