Featured Questioning the Motives and Accountability of the GOP Establishment

Maybe Trump knew and chose not to act but why, then, would a state party be obliged to kowtow to Trump who never showed up? Should the GOP have given Iowa to Trump just to be fair?

 

Over the top. Trump should have made a deal--that's how politics work. The state parties decide how their delegate system works. For example, in Indiana the delegates will be bound for one ballot and then are all Kasich people on any ensuing ballots.

 

The GOP runs a fairly clean process. It is the Democrat Party that reserved the superdelegates to overrule their public. Trump is a whiner. Maybe he should join the Dems so that he can go to the bathroom wherever he wants.

 

<Sigh> Yes, it is called politics. This is how the game has been played for generations. It's nothing new.

There are no manipulations that the GOP can perform to siphon off delegates for the first ballot voting. 95% of delegates are bound to vote for the candidate that won the majority of the votes in either their state (for winner take all states) or their congressional districts (in proportional voting states.) In almost all states IT'S REQUIRED that delegates are bound.

Possibly. If it happens it means that the candidate that has delegates defecting is perceived by the party to not be a very good candidate. This is the prerogative of the party. It is their organization and they can do as they please.

You don't have much of a say in the selection of the presidential candidate unless you are a party delegate. The primary system is mostly a beauty contest. The caucuses use the term "straw poll" and "preference poll" for a reason.

Ding, ding, ding ding. Winner, winner, chicken dinner!

 

Actually, the primary voting process is what the system has evolved into. Years ago the selection process was done exclusively by the parties with no public voting whatsoever.

Yes, and while you are at it, find the part where I said this selection process was fair.

 

One of the problems that Trump has is that he has won more delegates than he has won percentage of the votes. Secondly, no one has shown that the Iowa caucus, for example, is crooked. Thirdly, the people paying for the party should have some say in the delegates. Trump is not much of a Republican and it shows when he whines about the party that he thinks should vote for him or else there might be riots according to Trump.

The only reason for this false accusation by Trump against the GOP is that he cannot debate on the real issues because he still has a lot of Democrat thinking about the issues. Therefore, he has to complain about the process. Maybe he should just go back to owning and operating a go-go joint.