So you think that the delegates are going to choose an alternate candidate that is further behind in both delegate count and voter count over the front runner, if Trump doesn’t win the first ballot outright. That is a good way to alienate the voters, destroy the party completely, and hand the election to Hillary.
There have been 7 contested conventions and 6 of them produced the nominee. Lincoln was just one of them. Not a bad outcome when the “mob” insisted on mob rule.
Re-read the article. Let’s just see what happens.