Thank you for the clarification. Can someone, anyone, explain to me why Cruz continues to burn money and alienate voters with his behind-the-scenes shenanigans? To my untrained eye, the only point of this fruitless endeavor is to steal the nomination from Trump. Am I missing something?
Who’s Cruz?
the delegates are the ones that attend the convention and the ones that vote on the candidates....and all the other issues...
so there are little things like the party platform...
the party rules going forward (delegate allotments, primary details, budget committees, etc etc)
all these things the Cruz delegates will get to direct their desires toward....so by securing the delegates Cruz actually positions himself to direct the party going forward....he will have a significant influence.
Cruz is like a pimple on prom night.
“Can someone, anyone, explain to me why Cruz continues to burn money and alienate voters with his behind-the-scenes shenanigans? To my untrained eye, the only point of this fruitless endeavor is to steal the nomination from Trump. Am I missing something?”
Actually, I don’t think Cruz is behind a lot of what’s going on at some of these state conventions. I think a lot of it is just sour grapes by the state GOP establishments who are pointlessly posturing.
Also, there is no possibility of anyone “stealing” the nomination from Trump as he will enter the national convention with an absolute majority of bound delegates won in the state primaries who will, on the first ballot, be automatically counted at the convention the way they were bound in the primaries, independent of any personal feelings of the delegates themselves or even whether they attend the convention.