03-06-2016, 01:00 PM
Donald Trump cannot be denied the Republican nomination if he is able to earn the majority of Republican delegates required. That's all there is to it.
If Trump fails to meet that standard requirement and no other GOP candidate does either because the delegates are split between too many candidates, then it would go to a brokered nomination convention where the delegates for all candidates still in the race would battle it out and negotiate until they could agree on one candidate to represent their party in the general election. That would be an interesting and bloody process to watch.
Ted Cruz doesn't want a brokered convention; he's been a major contributor to splintering the Republican party for years. A lot of delegates in the room would likely fight tooth and nail before dropping support for their lesser successful candidates and getting behind Cruz because they see him as a divider within the party, I imagine.....EXCEPT, if Cruz was close enough in earned delegates to Trump that the GOP delegates collectively considered Cruz the lesser of two evils.
Unless they manage to somehow start kicking ass in the primaries and caucuses across the country and racking up enough delegates to be in the top two, I don't think Rubio or Kasich would have a chance of being the nominee. It would be the death of the Republican party to nominate anyone other than one of the two candidates with the most Republican voter support.
Cruz had a good day yesterday. He beat Trump in Kansas and Maine and closed Trump's lead a little. Trump beat Cruz in Kentucky and Louisiana. Rubio didn't do as well as projected and Kasich did about as well as expected.
If Trump fails to meet that standard requirement and no other GOP candidate does either because the delegates are split between too many candidates, then it would go to a brokered nomination convention where the delegates for all candidates still in the race would battle it out and negotiate until they could agree on one candidate to represent their party in the general election. That would be an interesting and bloody process to watch.
Ted Cruz doesn't want a brokered convention; he's been a major contributor to splintering the Republican party for years. A lot of delegates in the room would likely fight tooth and nail before dropping support for their lesser successful candidates and getting behind Cruz because they see him as a divider within the party, I imagine.....EXCEPT, if Cruz was close enough in earned delegates to Trump that the GOP delegates collectively considered Cruz the lesser of two evils.
Unless they manage to somehow start kicking ass in the primaries and caucuses across the country and racking up enough delegates to be in the top two, I don't think Rubio or Kasich would have a chance of being the nominee. It would be the death of the Republican party to nominate anyone other than one of the two candidates with the most Republican voter support.
Cruz had a good day yesterday. He beat Trump in Kansas and Maine and closed Trump's lead a little. Trump beat Cruz in Kentucky and Louisiana. Rubio didn't do as well as projected and Kasich did about as well as expected.