GOP Delegate Rules
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From the Center
Delegate Rules Actually Help Trump
Despite all the noise from both sides of the debate, when you run the numbers, it turns out that Donald Trump could win the nomination on the first ballot precisely because of the GOP’s delegate rules. Ted Cruz also benefits, but not until later ballots. The losers? John Kasich and all the other candidates, and their supporters.
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Convention Rules May Stop Donald Trump If Ted Cruz Continues Picking Up Delegates
Trump’s inability to connect with local leaders may come back to haunt him.
From the Right
Colorado GOP Delegate Rules Meant to Prevent 'Mob Rule'
The party rules that allowed Ted Cruz to sweep Colorado's Republican delegates without a popular vote are perfectly legitimate and designed to curb "mob rule" — despite Donald Trump's howls of protest, veteran GOP consultant Mary Matalin tells Newsmax TV.
"It's been the process in the Republican Party for 160 years and it's been the process that our entire country was founded on," Matalin said Wednesday on "The Steve Malzberg Show.
"We're a representative republic, not a democracy, and the reason the Founders made it like that was to guard...
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