You’d probably be right, if California still had primaries.
Okay, fine. Here's how it would play out in California: RINO Riggleman, the officially endorsed candidate of the California Republican Party, would be the top GOP candidate in the "jungle primary" system, getting 18.2% of the vote. Five other little known candidates who are actual conservatives would split the non-RINO vote. Riggleman would THEN go on to crash and burn in November, getting 33.7% of the vote in the runoff against a RAT. State Party officials would then promptly blame "right-wing purists" for "staying home".
>> How did this fag lover win a local convention? <<
Most likely he didn't reveal he was pro-gay marriage until AFTER he was elected, like most of the cowardly RINOs do. (he's smart enough to realize that it would have killed off his chances of making it thru a GOP primary). Some of them are even vile enough to campaign as the OPPOSITE and gladly take donations from pro-family PACS, like that scumbag Ron Sandack here in Illinois.