Trump will run the table faster than these writers can write about it.
This writer is already behind the curve.
Trump is up by double digits.
And no one else comes close.
He’ll do a feat even Reagan couldn’t do in 1980: cinch the nomination early.
Ironically enough, the rules were written to make that happen, just not with Trump in mind.
Far be it for me to try to argue against your devout Trumpism, but the very point of the article is that until March 15 every contest is proportional. Trump could win 45% in every contest until Florida (he won’t, by the way.) and still not have enough delegates to sew up the nomination.
The trouble for Trump is that the field is so crowded early that proportional allocation works against him. (The same fact works against ALL candidates, by the way.) When the 2%’ers start dropping out, all of the “anybody but Trump” vote has a clearer choice and all of a sudden Trump’s 60% unfavorable ratings come home to roost. Because if he can’t win 51% of the vote in the later voting states, he can’t win.
And the Rovians and party insiders in the GOP Elite Establishment are working overtime trying to figure out how to game this system so Cruz will win. And Trump lose. You can bet they’ve got their lawyers, analysts, and every functionary and operative in the party to game this system, above board or below board. They are talking to every delegate. Delegates can be TURNED, they can run on one slate, the flip to another in the rules of many state parties. If the Cruz Washington Establishment can just get to the first vote at the convention and survive, the Establishment will be able to use subterfuge, logrolling and donor/Cheap Labor Express/Goldman Sachs money to prevent the Outsider from winning.