Here is a moral question for you. First the facts.
TRUMP has fine numbers of “Earned Delegates” from all of his sweeping victories in state primaries. He earned them and he deserves them. And, the popular vote has backed that up. The vote of the people continue to make TRUMP their nominee. (Well, clearly, not in Colorado...)
The Rules are the rules. The “threshold” is the threshold, right?
The problem is who the Hell are the delegates? The TRUMP
“Earned delegates” are Cruz supporters.
Cruz has employed a litmus test for TRUMP’s “earned” delegates. It goes like this:
” Do you promise to vote for Cruz in all ballots subsequent to the First Ballot? “
The TRUMP supporter must lie convincingly and agree, in order to hope to be selected as a TRUMP delegate at the state convention. The lying, however, must start at the county level, in time for the word to be passed to the district and state level chairs.
By state convention time, the take away is physics. TRUMP’s delegates going to the National Convention are simply not TRUMP delegates, but are frauds.
So these fine numbers of TRUMP delegates he has collected to date are Cruz supporters set in place to abandon TRUMP, right on time, at the National Convention.
When that gets addressed then we can thrill to the TRUMP numbers, again. Right now, the continuum is effectively the “Brutus” plan and it is continuing unaddressed entirely, unchecked, unabated, and always ends with saying, “Amen”.
Seward felt the same way at 75% of the required delegates.
That would be what is called politics.
Trump can do the VERY same thing... He could play the long game.
Unfortunately for him, his campaign is not organized enough to do that.