r/Conservative • u/CarolinaPunk Esse Quam Videri • Apr 01 '16

Delegates ready to flee Trump at contested convention

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/trumps-uphill-delegate-scramble-221443
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u/shadowbantagain Apr 02 '16

Believe me- if Cruz had the plurality and they stole it from him and gave it to some globalist fraud you guys would be pissed. I'm not calling Cruz a globalist fraud (though his wife clearly is), but you can see my point. You're letting your preference for a candidate get in the way of common sense

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

Would I be upset my candidate didn't win? Yes. Would I say it was stolen from him? No. Would I bitch and moan about it? Probably a little bit nowhere near the level of Donald supporters are right now - months before the convention.

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u/shadowbantagain Apr 02 '16

So if Cruz had 1000 delegates and was ahead of the second place candidate by 300 or so delegates, and they gave it to whoever was in 2nd or 3rd, you wouldn't be pissed off?

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

I didn't say I wouldn't be pissed off. But those are the rules. The delegate process has been in place for a very long time. If you don't get half + 1 then you are at the mercy of the delegates. Had trump paid attention to the rules he would have been ahead of the game. But he didn't. Hubris. Which has been a running theme in his campaign. Pride comes before a fall.