What is a brokered convention?
A fantasy.
It will never happen. About the time people start to figure out that the guy they don’t like is inevitable, they start talking about a brokered convention.
Not. Gonna. Happen.
I assume with the candidates left its possible no one gets a majority even with multiple ballots. Is there no rule that forces the lowest delegate vote getter off subsequent ballots which then pretty much assures a majority eventually? That would make it a two person race at some point.
What a brokered convention would tell us is exactly who and what the party elites REALLY want to foist on the voters. That’s the exact reason they don’t want to allow a brokered convention to ever take place.
They want to always be able to point and say, “The voters choose him/her. If you want to have a different nominee, then vote for your candidate in the primaries. It’s too late now. Ha, ha, ha.”
(They don’t actually say ‘Ha, ha, ha,’ loud enough for anyone outside the realm of the elites to hear.)
This is exactly why WE want a brokered convention, so we can blame the ones whose fault it really is, the elites. This election cycle, anyone who doesn’t want a brokered convention is either one of the elites, or an elitist enabler. (Or an elitist wannabe. Or an idiot. Wait, I repeated myself.)
You’re right... It will never happen. Last time it happened was about 100 years ago. Harding, I think.