Trump ally invokes Bill Ayers’ 1969 Days of Rage to protect claim to nomination

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Legal Insurrection : Trump ally invokes Bill Ayers’ 1969 Days of Rage to protect claim to nomination

Posted by William A. Jacobson April 2, 2016 at 7:30pm

Irony: Ayers participated in protests to shut down Trump’s Chicago event

 

While Donald Trump leads in delegates, it’s far from certain that he will obtain the needed 1237 delegates prior to the Republican convention. We may know whether Trump is on track to a majority after next

 

Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary, or the New York primary on April 19.

If Trump falls short of that majority on the first ballot vote, even by one delegate, most of the delegates are released to vote as they want on the second and subsequent ballots.

 

The Trump campaign obviously fears that second ballot, because it is trying to create a narrative that if Trump is close to the majority of delegates, or leads others by a lot of delegates, he should be given the nomination. Anything less will be “stealing” the nomination from him.

 

Turning a plurality into a majority without actual delegate votes has no support in the most basic of convention rules, that an actual majority is needed to win. Trump predicted riots if he was close and didn’t get the nomination