If the GOPe takes your attitude, watch the swing state and blue state congressional districts. Enjoy the rat House and Senate.
"But if he doesn't get a majority of the delegates going in to the convention then his supporters are mistaken that he's somehow entitled to the nomination anyway."
"If the GOPe takes your attitude, watch the swing state and blue state congressional districts. Enjoy the rat House and Senate."
This isn't my "attitude". It ought to be as uncontroversial as saying the sky is blue. The nominee is the person who gets a majority of delegates at the convention. It's called majority rule. It's not who gets the most, it's who gets a majority. If candidate A doesn't win a majority then that means a majority does support candidate B, or candidates B and C. If the delegates for B and C want to come to an agreement and vote for one of their candidates they have that right. To say otherwise is to say that a majority of the delegates (those for B and C) don't get to have a say, which is absurd.
This isn't trickery. It isn't stealing. It's simple majority rule. The only problem Trump has with it is that he may not win if he doesn't get a majority going in. So what? That doesn't make it wrong. And if it was one of the other candidates in his position he'd find no problem with the prospect of winning through making a deal with another candidates delegates.