Speaking of rules it will be interesting to see what the rules for the 2016 Convention
will look like. 112 delegates meet the week before the convention to develope the
rules for 2016. The rules will come up for adoption and must be voted on by the delegates.
Not sure as to what point in the convention schedule that happens, early on I’d guess.
The only thing we can hope for is those delegates are bound to their candidates so we don’t get some funky rule that allows for shenanigans...
It’s really going to be interesting to see how Ted Cruz comes down on Rule 40, i.e., whether to keep it or dump it, or just modify it somehow.
Right now, it’s not obvious if it hurts his chances or helps them. It obviously helps Trump because it makes Rubio’s and Kasich’s delegates available to pick off on the first ballot, so Cruz might want to see it jettisoned, but that would also open up a path to bypass Cruz if Trump doesn’t win on the first ballot.
If Cruz has lined up enough Rubio/Kasich delegates to stop Trump on the first ballot, however, then with Rule 40 in place Cruz himself would win on the first ballot, since they’d be the only two on it, as I see it. (I could be wrong about that, however.)