Cruz wants the nomination despite that
1. Trump will have more votes won
2. Trump will have more states won
3. Trump will have more pledged delegates won
Considering how insane that is, I think he just wants to hurt Trump, forcing him to postpone starting to unite the party.
Cruz lost and now wants Trump to lose as well (the general election).
Cruz lost and now wants Trump to lose as well (the general election).
Exactly. Cruz wants Trump to lose so he can run in 2020. I suspect his 2018 Senate bid is going to be a rough election though. He may not make it to 2020. LOL.
1. Trump will have more votes won
2. Trump will have more states won
3. Trump will have more pledged delegates won
Considering how insane that is, I think he just wants to hurt Trump, forcing him to postpone starting to unite the party.
In the 1976 Primary, Reagan continued fighting Ford for unpledged delegates and battled right up through the Convention even though:
1) Ford had more votes won;
2) Ford had more states won;
3) Ford had more pledged delegates won
Reagan kept fighting for unpledged delegates to put him over the top, but ultimately lost despite what some considered to be shananigans at that Convention. But the truth is that the process for selecting a nominee has always been controlled, ultimately, by the party itself as a private organization.
For a great many years, nominees were picked in the proverbial "smoke filled rooms" by the people who worked within the party and cared about its fortunes in times other than just right around elections. It was never exclusively a "popular vote" exercise, and anyone familiar with the political history of the country should know that.
If you aren't liked by the party establishment, and aren't willing to run subject those rules, then you have the choice of running as a third party or independent. That's what Teddy Roosevelt did.
I think it is becoming more and more clear that Trump should have run as an independent. It is pretty clear that a lot of his supporters don't really like the GOP as a party at all, and that was true even before this primary season. They actually detest it.
So what did they expect? Did they expect the party that they detest to simply roll over for the people who hate it? To go away meekly because "the masses" are out to destroy it? Whether they should have done that is irrelevant -- expecting them to do that is just naïve.
1. Trump will have more votes won
2. Trump will have more states won
3. Trump will have more pledged delegates won
You forgot something very important:
Trump has won 37% of the primary vote, not 50%, not 50% plus 1. And certainly not 63%. The rules for 160 years, through 40 GOP conventions REQUIRED a majority of delegates. EVERY TIME. Why should 37% dictate to the rest of the party?
Donald is spending half the time whining that he can't negotiate that, even though many did it in the past. Maybe he should read "The Art of the Deal." The Trump people want to change the rules, in the middle of the game, to allow a candidate incapable of getting the majority of delegates to win, and ignore the majority that did not want him.