It’s simple.
A matter of the popular vote goes in the ash can and the GOPE-Cruz Cartel can wrangle an oligarchy of political assassins (”delegates”) picking the candidate at a convention stacked with delegates set to reverse the peoples vote. Go for it.
Rita... that’s the way political parties work. It’s a convention of delegates. Trumpy should have run as an independent to begin with if he wasn’t prepared to play the game to the end. And, they are not going to change the rules to accommodate him. He thinks he has the leverage to get that done, but he doesn’t. It is what it is.
Simple 1237 is half the delegates plus one....if no one reaches that goal some delegates are released from their pledge and a second vote is held .. if no one gets 1237 more delegates are released and a third vote happens...etc. etc. etc. until some one gets 1237. That’s how it works and all the candidates signed a piece of paper saying they understood the rules and would abide by them.