Recently there has been much in the media regarding what the "Establishment" GOP will do if it in fact goes to the Convention and Trump does not have the required 1237 delegates needed to become the Republican candidate...
There is talk that the establishment would install the candidate of their choice and go against the majority of the voters who voted in the presidential primaries. This week John Boehner came out of "retirement" and stated that Paul Ryan would make a good candidate...
Political parties, not voters, choose their presidential
nominees, a Republican convention rules member told CNBC, a day after GOP
front-runner Donald Trump rolled up more big primary victories.
"The
media has created the perception that the voters choose the nomination. That's
the conflict here," Curly Haugland, an unbound GOP delegate from North
Dakota, told CNBC's "Squawk Box"
on Wednesday. He even questioned why primaries and caucuses are held.
Haugland
is one of 112 Republican delegates who are not required to cast
their support for any
one candidate because their states and territories don't hold primaries or
caucuses.
Even
with Trump's huge
projected delegate haul in four state primaries Tuesday, the odds are
increasing the billionaire businessman may not ultimately get the 1,237
delegates needed to claim the GOP nomination before the convention.
