I say let it play itself out. That's what the delegates are there for. The premise that a convention fight would automatically result in a Clinton victory in November is asinine.
As is a Trump nomination causing a Hillary win, asinine.
“play itself out. That’s what the delegates are there for. The premise that a convention fight would automatically result in a Clinton victory in November is asinine.”
This is not about Ted Cruz. This is much larger than one man.
This upcoming battle between Trump vs Cruz/Kasich represents the entire grass-roots conservatives — the “tea party types, if you will — against 28 years of rule by every single Elite, Establishment, Vinchy Republican who has been in DC, telling us how stupid we are and how they are the only ones who are smart enough to rule.
No, this AIN’T about Ted Cruz at all. It’s about Trent Lott and Orin Hatch and Bob Dole and John McCain and Mitt Romney and George HW Bush and George W Bush and Karl Rove and Brit Hime and Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh and NRO and Red State and John Coryn and George Soros and Lehman Bros and Goldman Sachs and Paul Ryan and CFR and Ben What’s-his-name and Mitch McConnell and Reince Priebus and Club for Growth and Senate Conservatives Fund and Lindsey Graham and NAFTA and the North American Union and on and on and on...
THAT’s where the battle line is drawn now, and for our country, it’s do or die time.
Thank you, Jeff Head. I always did think you were a good man.
I will explain.
The fear is that a contested election opens a window for GOPe trickery and shenanigans. Therefore, an outright win is needed to shut out the party operatives. And not just a "squeaked by" win, but a blow-out win so that the party can't play disqualification games to create a brokered contest.
Therefore, somebody has to drop out. By dropping out, the pledged delegates become unbound and one back in play, giving the remaining candidate enough delegates to have a convincing majority.
So, who drops out? Decorum would suggest that the trailing candidate drops out in favor of the leading candidate.
-PJ
Trump is not mathematically eliminated. He has a challenge, but there are still enough delegates available that he can win.
If Cruz wins every single delegate from here on out - 100% of them - he still comes up short of 1237. There is no way he can win.
Trump can still win - Cruz cannot.