[xzins]

I don't think they had organized in that way. It was killing them, but trump knew that for him any hint of this kind of buying of delegates’ votes would be jumped on in the media and treated as criminal graft.

He has called it out and now the establishment and Cruz are saying “it's by the rules. “

Their words are his protection to do the same thing. With manafort on board his delegates will stay home. The others will be offered a better deal than Cruz offered. After the first round you don't know who someone is actually supporting until the moment they cast their ballot.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

The others will be offered a better deal than Cruz offered.

That's what I keep sayin' here. If Trump is the man who can make winning deals with Putin and the ayatollahs, he sure as hell ought to be able to demonstrate that by making a deal with a few GOP delegates.

[G Larry]

Ya know, there are HONEST, straight-forward ways to flip delegates, none of which require “buying” anybody.

Manafort is a liability with his “gestapo” charges, without any proof.

Many delegates are REQUIRED to stay with Trump on the first ballot, because of the votes of those who sent them. They are NOT bound, except to their conscience, on subsequent ballots.