Donald Trump just hit a critical threshold for the GOP nomination

You are right. The concern everywhere, however, is that they can just arbitrarily do whatever the heck they want.

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Selected Trump articles on FR, with links, from 12:00 AM to 12:30 PM EST, 3/15/16:
Donald Trump just hit a critical threshold for the GOP nomination — one that his opponents might not –WaPo
Trump wins 9 delegates in Northern Mariana Islands –Politico
March 15 GOP Primary Primer (FL, IL, MO, MP, NC, OH) - Closing Times, Polling, Delegate Formulas
Apopka polling place ran out of Republican ballots, voters say –Click Orlando
Super Tuesday 2 - Ground Reports: What’s Going On? –Treehouse
Just voted Trump in Panama City Florida (vanity)
Ryan will back Trump if he's GOP nominee –The Hill
A Situation in Which Donald Trump Wins the White House –NYT
Anonymous Declares "Total War" on Donald Trump –Time
Do Mexican flag-wavers know what happens to illegals in Mexico? –Silvio Canto Jr
Establishment Cruz Supporter Picking Trump Delegates –Twitter
Donald Trump has pledged to get rid of Islam-financed Common Core. Look who has no opinion about it: –Bare Naked Islam
Newt: It's "Trump or Cruz, I Don't Think There's a Path for Anybody Else" –Breitbart
RNC Official Claims ‘Every Delegate Is a Superdelegate,’ Can Override Will of Voters –Truth in Media
Donald Trump’s Mammoth Advantage in Free Media ($2B) –NYT
Trump Attacker: Everyone Has a Right to Vote – Not to Be Heard –Townhall
Donald Trump’s rise sparks alarm in Japan –CNBC
The Left May Well Get Trump Nominated –Dennis Prager
rTrump breaks 50% in new national poll –YouGov
Giuliani on Trump: 'Prone to Exaggerate' but 'Exceedingly Rational Man' –Sharona Schwartz
Trump walks back suggestion of paying legal fees for man accused of punching protester –Business Insider
John Kasich: There’s ‘no way’ I would team up with Donald Trump –Wash.Times
Vanity: Trump fails less than Jeff Bezos' Amazon. Don't fall for Establishment disinfo. –Business Insider
Grieving Mom Responds to Kasich’s Amnesty Pledge: Visit Grave of My Murdered Child –Julie Hahn
Jerry Brown: If Trump Wins, We’ll Build a Wall around California –
EXCLUSIVE: Raw Footage from Trump Rally (street riots, not Trump supporters)
White Working Class is Designated Scapegoat of the Ruling Elites –American Thinker
*LIVE SUPER-DUPER TUESDAY ELECTION THREAD (FL, OH, NC, IL, AND MO)* –tatown
Top liberal leaders call for 'massive' anti-Trump campaign –Politico
Donald Trump Breaks with Tradition, and It’s Paying Off –NYT
When it comes to dumping Trump, Mitt's not too swift –Lowell Sun
Romney stumps with Kasich on eve of Ohio primary
An indefensible defense budget: Obama’s deep cuts could lead to a U.S. military defeat –Ed Feulner (on the issues)
O’Reilly: Those ‘Accusing Trump Supporters of Being Fascist Are Practicing that Philosophy Themselves’ –Breitbart
Arrest the Thugs – Left’s bullies cannot be allowed to hijack freedom of speech for an entire nation –FrontPage Editors
Divisive Rhetoric? Trump Didn’t Start this Fire (from National Review? WTH!)
The Marriage of Black Lives Matter & Jew Hatred –FrontPageMag
Progressive Brownshirts –FrontPageMag
Trump's Jet lands in Millington, TN –(awesome video)
Military Times survey: Troops back Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders
Republican Plan to Trap Trump Has Backfired –Fiscal Times
Rubio: There will be a “reckoning” for conservatives who support Trump –Hot Air
If anti-Trump protests grow, they could hand Donald the election –USAToday
'We’re only looking at four years’ if Trump’s a bust –Dr. Ben Carson
Donald Trump: The Left's Worst Nightmare –Diana West
North Carolina officials decide against charging Trump –AP
Free Republic 2016 Caucus Open Discussion Thread LVI
Chicago Cop: Anti-Trump Mob More Aggressive and Destructive than Reported

Yippee!! Bully! for him! These are new? additions into the American fold? Don't remember studying them in school. Second question - and do they, like PR, wish US to bail them out of their debt as well? GO!! TRiUMPh

I'm stockpiling pitchforks. If they change the rules I'm going to be rich!

Indeed!

Hip Hip Hooray!

Changing rules in the middle of a game?

How cowardly, how asinine, how crazy, how unfair, how STUPID!

I am sure we will.
GOOOO
TRUMP!

Thanks. Much like what they do in Congress. There are no certainties. (well, beyond death and taxes.)

IF they do that, they will sorely regret it.

Because tens of millions of Americans will not take such perfidy lying down.

I assume all is okay and you are back on!!

:-)

My internet was off since Saturday, was sporadic and then poof.

History in the making.

It’s something they do every 4 years - review the rules and propose changes. Nothing new about it. And the delegates will have to approve of the changes.ue

So here is something to get your dander up - what if they propose these rule changes and Trump opposes them, but they get passed anyway with the support of a majority of Trump pledged delegates? Remember, the pledged delegates are only obligated to support Trump’s nomination, and even that only on the first ballot.

One more time.

Trump wrote about illegal immigration in his book PUBLISHED IN 2011.

The concern everywhere, however, is that they can just arbitrarily do whatever the heck they want.

Only if they think they can get away with it. The GOPe wanted Jeb. They're not getting him. They wanted Rubio. He's almost gone. Their favored candidates having been roundly rejected by their voters they have to make a hard choice. Go to war with their base or make a deal. Trump is always willing to make a deal. Cruz, not so much. I predict a grand bargain where if Trump is close to locking it up the GOPe capitulates and does nothing to prevent his nomination. In return maybe they get to pick his VP, or maybe he just promises not to run an independent campaign and destroy the party.

They will not under any circumstances attempt to unbound the delegates for the first ballot. If Trump has a majority of bound delegates he's the nominee even if he makes no concessions to the GOPe.

The anti-Trumpers and cynics who think the GOPe can just hand the nomination to anyone they please aren't taking account of the Trump factor. He's rich, he's smart, he's ruthless and he holds a grudge. The GOP oligarchs do not want him as a permanant enemy. Especially not when, for the cost of a few concessions, he can win the presidency with a new Republican coalition of religious conservatives, anti-taxers and economic nationalists and keep the party in the game.

So here is something to get your dander up - what if they propose these rule changes and Trump opposes them, but they get passed anyway with the support of a majority of Trump pledged delegates?

The GOP goes the way of the Whigs. And they know it, so it won't happen. The assumption is that they have everything to lose from a Trump presidency. That's nonsense. His voters will help other Republicans at every level. His presidency will provide plenty of jobs for GOP hacks. These guys aren't fanatical leftists who think Trump is Hitler. They're just opportunists. Trump can provide opportunity, and when it knocks they'll answer.

Lying TEd Says he’s won 9. He said it again today. Which 9 has he won?

Yep — JR rode to the rescue with some suggestions and I finally worked out what was messing up my browser. THANK YOU!!

"Problem for Cruz is that most of the best states for him are already done. He has no chance in the Northeast for a majority in any of those states so his ONLY chance is New Mexico, Utah, Montana, or the Dakotas. Northwest states are also out."

Most polling I've seen indicates that if Rubio and Kasich leave the race, their voters prefer Cruz over Trump at about 3-1, so you're underestimating Cruz's chances.