The open primary gives Trump blue collar voters a chance to bump his numbers. Cruz not so much.
The open/closed primary stuff is nonsense. These are historic landslides. Trump won every county but one in FL against a sitting US Senator. Last week he won EVERY county in FIVE states in one night. Historic....
No it isn’t nonsense. The point is that if the race were to tighten, that Trump would have an advantage.
I’m in favor of that.
But it should be noted that RI was his biggest margin of victory and that was a "semi-open" primary in that Independents could take a Republican ballot (but not Democrats).