[House Atreides]

“How will he win on the 2nd if he can’t win on the first?...

... Why would the GOPe deny Trump and then on the 2nd ballot give it to Cruz?...”
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You just don’t get it. The majority of the delegates at the convention will NOT BE GOPe loyalists, but will instead be anti-Establishment types selected from Cruz (and hopefully Trump) loyalists. Before that convention selects a GOPe puppet as the nominee, they’d first dig up Rin-Tin-Tin and nominate him.

[TomGuy]

You just don’t get it. The majority of the delegates at the convention will NOT BE GOPe loyalists, but will instead be anti-Establishment types selected from Cruz (and hopefully Trump) loyalists.

GOOD LORD! They are Pubbies. They fold. That is what they do. Have you not watched Congress?

As soon as the party apparatchiks start threatening and coercing ...