His Majesty the Donald doesn’t have the majority of delegates elected so far. Most GOP voters DON’T want him. Cruz would beat him one on one. A majority rules, not a plurality.
Why in world should Trump be entitled to the nomination if he doesn’t have a majority of the delegates? Would Romney also have been so entitled if he had fallen short in 2012?
Why in the world should Cruz be criticized for hoping his opponent doesn’t win?
If Trump was behind Cruz by 80 delegates would Trump supporters gracely concede that whoever gets 1 more delegate should win even if both are under 50%? The other delegates should go to hell rather being given the opportunity to decide whether they support Trump or Cruz on the second ballot? Especially considering that polls show Cruz is a stronger general election candidate?
I’m drowning in hypocrisy.
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For the record, so far in the primaries and caucuses, Donald Trump has received 34.86% of the vote (4,345,360 out of 12,465,175 votes cast). 34.86% is not even close to a majority, so it’s silly to argue that “he’s the choice of most Republican voters.”
In terms of delegates won (which is how presidential nominations are decided), Trump has obtained 43.84% of Republican delegates (463 out of 1,056 delegates elected so far). Again, that’s not particularly close to 50%+1. If the Convention was today, Trump would fall well short of being nominated *unless* delegates pledged to other candidates were to vote for Trump. If that happened, then Trump would be nominated, but if the other delegates voted for Cruz instead then Cruz would be nominated. That’s how the rules of the GOP nomination process—and of elementary mathematics—work.
We are NOT talking BROKERED.... Cruz and most all of his supporters would scream NO NO NO!!!
‘Why in world should Trump be entitled to the nomination if he doesn’t have a majority of the delegates?’
And why in the world should Cruz be entitled to the nomination if he’s not the front-runner?
That ‘Trumps’ him.
Being fine with freed up delegates is seeking to disenfranchise voters. I don’t even remember who my delegate is. And I confess I don’t even know how GOP EEEE delegates are selected.
That might sound stupid to you, but guess what?
If I don’t know, you can dxxxm well be sure that most voters don’t know. If the front-runner gets knocked out at the convention, it will be hell to pay! And Cruz knows it. He just doesn’t care.
That’s being selfish. That’s why they are getting prepared for riots at the convention.