OPINION:
I am fed up with the misinformation and propaganda coming from Republican front-runner Donald Trump and his campaign. The biggest lie coming from the camp of Mr. Trump, the biggest loser, is that if he has a plurality of delegates he should be the Republican nominee, but that “the establishment” is going to “steal” the nomination from him. That is incorrect. Party rules are to protect the majority from “tyranny of the plurality.”
More than 60 percent of the voters who participated in the Republican nominating process did not vote for Mr. Trump, and many had more than the current three choices and do not have the opportunity for a do-over in those states with the current three candidates. If Mr. Trump receives a majority of the delegates — 1,237 — he will be the Republican nominee, plain and simple. If he does not obtain 1,237 delegates before the convention, he will not have the nomination and therefore it cannot be “stolen” from him.
Mr. Trump won all the delegates in South Carolina, but won less than 40 percent of the popular vote, and he won all of the delegates in Arizona and Florida, but won less than 50 percent of the popular vote in those states. Yet now Mr. Trump has the audacity to attack the Republican nominating process as being corrupt because Ted Cruz’s loyalists are being elected as national delegates, and as such they are bound to vote for Mr. Trump on the first ballot but are free to vote for Mr. Cruz on subsequent ballots.
When the party rules benefit Mr. Trump, they are acceptable, but when they don’t, they are corrupt? Mr. Trump should write another book, “The Art of Hypocrisy,” for there could not be a better example of it.
JOHN BLOOM
Newport News, Va.
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