The delegates to the Republican convention are the ground troops in the primaries. They are more often than not more conservative than the candidates they support. When the convention is opened up, they are going to go right. They are not going to go for the establishment candidate. Especially if almost all of them are anti-establishment Trump and Cruz supporters. I have little fear that an establishment candidate would emerge from a contested convention. But I am in the minority here.
I don’t think that’s realistic, P-M.
I think they are the republican leaders of precincts, republican clubs, etc.
They are not who you think they are. A friend of mine is one of them, and a former member of our church until recently moving back to the city to be near his kids and grandkids.
He voted for Kasich, a thoroughly wasted vote in Ohio, and not because he was supporting Cruz or Trump.