It is no secret that the Republican establishment and the media do not want Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee for President. It is also very obvious that if Donald Trump wins a majority of the state primaries and does not get the nomination, there will be many angry Republicans. I am not a Trump supporter, but I would be angry if that happened. Somehow the establishment Republicans and the press have not understood how angry the voters are. This lack of understanding was illustrated by an article that was posted at CNBC today.
The article reports:
“The media has created the perception that the voters choose the nomination. That’s the conflict here,” Curly Haugland, an unbound GOP delegate from North Dakota, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Wednesday. He even questioned why primaries and caucuses are held.
Haugland is one of 112 Republican delegates who are not required to cast their support for any one candidate because their states and territories don’t hold primaries or caucuses.
Even with Trump‘s huge projected delegate haul in four state primaries Tuesday, the odds are increasing the billionaire businessman may not ultimately get the 1,237 delegates needed to claim the GOP nomination before the convention.
I think the voters might have other ideas about this. The rumors are already flying. The press has until July to convince the average Republican that it will be okay to take the nomination away from the candidate who gets the most votes. Somehow I doubt that will happen. If the Republican establishment decides to choose a candidate other than the one the voters choose, it will be the end of the Republican party.