The fallacy in Rush’s argument regarding the 2nd ballot delegates is that Trump’s delegates will leave him, but Cruz’s delegates will stay with him.
What-if-ery: The Cruz and/or Kasich and/or Rubio delegates decide to go with a winner and switch over to Trump and Trump ends up with 1400 delegates.
Until the next few primaries are over, everyone can play the what-if-ery game every day.
“...fallacy is that Cruz’s will stay and Trump’s would leave...”
Huge fallacy!! Precisely. You nailed it and others of us have been pointing this out as well. Those “Cruz” delegates will switch to Trump in the blink of an eye when he has even more momentum than he does now (and he has plenty now) and millions more votes backing him as the true winner.
That Rush and the deluded Cruz followers can’t see this is is astounding. The potential delegate flip works both ways. I actually used to think that Rush was very intelligent but this attempted defense of the establishment exposes that he has a massive and perhaps deliberate blind spot.
People, including delegates, unless outright illegally bribed and possibly even then, will want to vote the winner in.