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Why not if every other candidate is way behind you in votes ?
Those rules have been in place a long time, WAY before Trump. The standard is if you are going to represent the party, you need to get at least half of them to vote for you. A majority. That's why you have to have more than half the total available delegates. It's a sensible rule, and no one has had trouble reaching it until now. Why should 40% of the people choose who represents the other 60%?
Those rules have been in place a long time, WAY before Trump. The standard is if you are going to represent the party, you need to get at least half of them to vote for you. A majority. That's why you have to have more than half the total available delegates. It's a sensible rule, and no one has had trouble reaching it until now. Why should 40% of the people choose who represents the other 60%?
He still might, it's not over.
Trump and his supporters do not believe that anything as "rules" or the requirement of such a quaint notion as a "majority" should apply to Donald Trump. They apparently regard him as being beyond all of that.
Those rules have been in place a long time, WAY before Trump. The standard is if you are going to represent the party, you need to get at least half of them to vote for you. A majority. That's why you have to have more than half the total available delegates. It's a sensible rule, and no one has had trouble reaching it until now. Why should 40% of the people choose who represents the other 60%?
That said he still might, it's not over.
You do know it's possible to have 1,237 delegates with less than 50% of the popular vote, right ?
Apparently Trump is pulling out of Colorado. He's cancelled his rallies in Denver and Colorado Springs and will not be appearing at the state GOP convention on Saturday.
Probably got the word that it's already rigged for Cruz.
That's one way of putting it. Another way is that his campaign staff inexcusably didn't have a grasp of the CO GOP delegate process. It's a messy and complex insider affair but there's nothing secret about it; if Cruz's campaign staff could work it so could Trump's.
(I'm a HRC supporter so have no dog in this fight.)
Trump has turned not just his own campaign, but everything and everyone around him as well as the process, into a hot mess this cycle.
If he truly wanted to end it he could just release his tax returns. Can't imagine that a genius businessman like him doesn't have some conflict of interest or misrepresentations in either his past, present, future, or all that would be damaging to his campaign...
Wait, we're talking about Trump supporters here. Don't think even he had any idea how many gullible people there are running around...
The number of supporters of Clinton and Sanders illustrates how many very clearly.
You do know it's possible to have 1,237 delegates with less than 50% of the popular vote, right ?
Oy. LOL. Yes, it is technically possible. But it is not very likely, and doing so would not be in the spirit the rule was written. It would be taking advantage of a loophole. And the person would be highly likely to be very close to half the popular vote anyway.
In any case, Trump still may make his required delegate count regardless.
Oy. LOL. Yes, it is technically possible. But it is not very likely, and doing so would not be in the spirit the rule was written. It would be taking advantage of a loophole. And the person would be highly likely to be very close to half the popular vote anyway.
In any case, Trump still may make his required delegate count regardless.
He needs 57% of the remaining delegates and that % is bound to go down after the Northeast primaries.
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