If Trump doesn’t get a majority of the delegates then I guess he doesn’t have a viable path either. People act like this is something new. It’s happened many times that no candidate had a majority and in the majority of the times that it has happened the person who went into the convention with the most delegates did not win the election at the conventionTrump’s problem is he alienates more people every day even many of the delegates pledged to vote for them would jump at the chanceto choose another candidate on the second ballot Trumps only chance is to win on the first ballot for the delegates are boundso it’s starting to look like Trump is the one without a viable path
Well according to my research, the last brokered Republican convention was Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. He was a little short on delegates and obviously prevailed. Nixon and Ford were both short too on but won on the first ballot so were not brokered. Looks like the last time the Republican candidate with the most delegates(or votes) who didn’t go on to win the nomination was in 1860 when Lincoln won the nomination, after which we were plunged into civil war. So denying the candidate with the most delegates the nomination is almost unheard of. It was probably done in 1860 in the lead up to The Civil War, and a symptom of a deeply divided nation. Kind of sounds eerily like today.