U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference before a campaign town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire August 19, 2015. REUTERS/BRIAN SNYDER
Sasha Issenberg, Bloomberg: How to Steal a Nomination From Donald Trump
An insider’s guide to what could be the struggle to win a contested convention.
Donald Trump has spent much of his campaign selling himself as a maker of great deals. But in the next phase of the campaign, the author of The Art of the Deal may be confronted with the ultimate dealmaking challenge, gaming the rulebook and horse-trading for delegates at what could be a contested convention. And if that situation comes to pass, it's one in which his opponents have a distinct advantage going in.
All three of Trump’s Republican opponents are now convinced (even if some are loath to concede it publicly) that the current front-runner is the only candidate in the field who still has the chance to win the 1,237 delegates that would ensure his nomination in Cleveland. But if Trump is unable in the remaining primaries and caucuses to line up the necessary delegates, the convention will be deadlocked on its first ballot and then have to vote again—and possibly again and again—until a majority emerges.
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WNU Editor: My prediction is that after tomorrow the Republican race will be down to two men (Trump/Cruz) .... and it will be these two men who will be sweeping the delegates from here to the end of the primaries. Will it be enough for one of them to get 1,237 delegates and to clinch the nomination .... I am still not sure. But if the Republican party leadership works to deny the nomination to either of these two men .... the fireworks that will come out of their convention will be unprecedented, and it will be end of the Republican Party as we know it.
On a side note, this is interesting .... and it is from the New York Times .... Donald Trump’s Tampa Office Is an Unlikely Melting Pot (NYT).
1 comment:
Do I trust The Donald?
50/50 or less.
But if the RINO leadership do him in there is no choice but to disband the Republican party because kleptocrats, crapitalists, or Howard Prescotts of the part of taken over permanently
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