A majority of Republican and Republican-leaning voters believe the party should unite behind Donald Trump at a contested convention, according to a national Monmouth University poll released Wednesday.
The New York billionaire won another 58 delegates Tuesday with a decisive victory in Arizona, putting him within 500 delegates of securing the GOP nomination outright. But should Trump fail to accrue the necessary 1,237 delegates, 54 percent of those polled said the party should back Trump for the nomination anyway. More than a third said the delegates should nominate another person, and 7 percent were unsure.
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I am one of the Republicans that agree with this.
ReplyDeleteI am one of the Republicans that doesn't agree with this.
ReplyDeleteA GOP brokered convention would not be a new thing. Heck, Even Abe had to convince the delegates to vote for him when he didn't garner enough votes in the primaries. The vast majority of winners in brokered GOP conventions were NOT the ones that got the most (but not the majority) of the votes in the primaries. I'm sure the same kind of rhetoric was thrown around then, just without the media coverage. If Trump loses a brokered convention, it will be his own fault for not securing the delegate votes of the republicans at the convention. He can't win a spot as the Republican candidate with votes from Democrats and Independents in open primary contests. He HAS to win with Republicans. He's either a Republican, or not. He doesn't seem to have gotten that point yet. He better do it soon, or win that majority delegate count. Without it, he will never win a brokered convention. History is not on his side. Threats & bullying from Trump, and threats from others, will not win him any votes at the convention. It will have quite the opposite effect.
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