GOP Expert Predicts ‘Chaos’ If Donald Trump Is Not Nominated
Thursday, Donald Trump scolded the WS-J’s for an editorial criticizing his claim that a plurality of delegates is enough to assure him the GOP nomination, and for reporting Hillary Clinton’s primary votes exceed his own, he derided the editorial board as “Dummies,” and to demand an apology.
If the Republican presidential nomination goes to someone other than Donald Trump at this Summer’s convention, it may not end in the upheaval the front-runner is predicting, but there “would be chaos” because many voters do not understand how the convention process works, Republican strategist Steve Schmidt said Thursday.
“He is an outside insurgent candidate,” Mr. Schmidt, a former advisor for Senator John McCain (R-AZ), said in a TV interview.
“His voters, many of them are 1st-time voters in the process, and those voters do not necessarily understand the 2 parties are the vehicles by which we advance democracy in America, but by themselves are not inherently small ‘D’ democratic institutions.”
Wednesday, Donald Trump said that he thinks “there would be riots” if he is denied the nomination if he comes in just short of having enough delegates, while the other candidates remain far behind.
“This is not a one man, 1 vote process, but I think ordinary people view it as such,” Mr. Schmidt said Thursday.
“So if you go into the convention, you have all the political machinations and it results in a nomination by someone who maybe didn’t even run for president during this process or with the second or third place candidate and people will go nuts.”
Further, he said, such a move will be seen as being engineered by “the Establishment,” and the move could cause the Republican Party “to implode under those circumstances and have dire consequences down the ballot for the House and Senate.”
The issue was stirred even more Wednesday, when an unbound GOP North Dakota delegate, said that the media has “created the perception that the voters choose the nomination,” when really, it’s the delegates who choose the nominees.
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