You do understand that rule changes and the candidate will still require a majority of the delegates? And that around 2000 of those delegates will have been elected to support Trump or Cruz?
Any compromise will be between Trump and Cruz supporters. The establishment will get no say-so.
The establishment broker talk is just a scheme by Rove and Diaz, et al, to scam a few more millions from foolish big donors.
I mentioned elsewhere that if Trump is short, it’s only going to be by about 100 or so. He’ll easily be able to get 100 Cruz delegates on a second ballot if/when it becomes clear that the GOPe is going to pull some BS move.
From the article:
“Ryan acknowledged that people are talking to him about how he could get the nomination at a brokered convention where un-pledged delegates can ignore the results of their states’ primaries once the first convention ballot is taken.”
People are telling Ryan he could get the nomination.
What makes you think the delegates will be Trump or Cruz supporters ? They are not picked by the candidates — they are picked by the local party hacks, ie. the GOPe.
The RULES bind them to vote for Trump or Cruz on the first vote but they are not bound to vote against “rules changes” that hurt Trump and Cruz — like tossing out Rule 40. And they are not bound to vote for Trump or Cruz on a second vote — they can vote their “conscience” and hand it to whoever the GOPe tells them to.
We could theoretically see a second vote where Trump and Cruz get only a few hundred delegates and JEB gets 2,000.