If he’d endorsed Trump, they’d be setting up a GoFundMe campaign to erect an altar to him already.
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In the comments section for the Fiorina endorsement over at Instapundit, someone suggested that the endorsement post should have gone up stating that Fiorina was endorsing *Trump*. And then after an hour or so of Trump supporters praising her to the high heavens, a correction could have been posted that she had, in fact, endorsed Cruz and not Trump.

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Based on the incredible energy of the Tea Parties, the Republicans took 650 state legislative seats from the Marxists in 2010.
Priebus was elected RNC Chairman in January, 2011.

They took another 250 seats in 2014.

Even after the Candy Crowley/Obama coordinated attack on Romney in 2012 debate #2, and the usual biased treatment by “moderators”, Priebus agreed to almost nothing but leftist moderators on all the debates this year.

If he’d endorsed Trump, they’d be setting up a GoFundMe campaign to erect an altar to him already.

I turned my back on the RNC several years ago, and the small contributions I now make go to individuals. Still, the RNC under Reice Priebus has been pretty effective, despite the abuse thrown at them. After all the GOP controls both houses, most governorships, and most legislatures. Not shabby work. So, I believe that the RNC is capable of making the argument if they are motivated enough.

Trump would be the wild card. If he were man enough, and decent enough to say, “this is the long standing process; I did not get a majority, so we follow the process”, then it would help a lot. I know the caveats are likely pipe dreams, or as we used to say, “you, Oldflyer, are just whistling dixie”.

The problem is that (even before Trump) the public doesn’t really understand that if a candidate doesn’t achieve the vote threshold on the first ballot all bets are off. That’s what a convention is and always has been, but populism has taken hold to the point where I don’t think that would be acceptable to most people no matter what “education” on the topic that the party would try to offer.

And that’s even without Trump. With Trump, and the activism of many of his supporters, the idea that the elites had stolen the election from them would be shouted from the rafters.

You can bet on it.

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Huckabee also set off the hackles of quite a few mormons back in 2008. A poll conducted of the potential candidates during the primary season actually found that Huckabee would lose Utah in a match-up with Obama.

If Trump, or any candidate, fails to get a majority on the first, a significant number of delegates are up for grabs. It is hard to imagine other delegates turning to Trump.

The Dem’s media allies, and the Trumpsters, will try to spin it, so the GOP would have to be out front to educate the electorate that it is a legitimate process.

Perry endorsed Cruz in January.