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- 24 de Sep, 2014
The GOP doesn't have super delegates. If the voters pick someone, the party doesn't really have a mechanism to defy them.I wish people would have told Trump "no!" when he wanted to run for president.
They changed their rules once in my lifetime to keep someone out, and that was Ron Paul in 2012. He was running really far behind Mitt Romney, but he had enough delegates to potentially force a contested vote at the convention. He asked electors to vote their conscience, a tactic copied by Hillary in '16 and Trump in '20, and it opened an avenue to play rules lawyer and knock the establishment candidate out. The rule they changed was the required number of delegates, and they raised the number just enough to disqualify him. 2012 was a bad year for voice votes. The DNC did one too that totally disregarded the actual vote but I can't remember what for specifically. Something about Israel I think.
Anyways, they were only able to do that because Ron Paul just barely met the requirements to be a problem. Trump was extremely popular in his first primary and summarily took down the GOP usual suspects during debates and rallies. There was no rule they could have changed that would have stopped him. The only other way to disqualify him for '24 would be a constitutional congress where we change the requirements to be president by adding "no felons." I've mentioned in previous posts why the DNC should not call a constitutional congress in this era because it would backfire horribly.
Ironically, the only way Trump could have been stopped was if he ran as a democrat. In hindsight, people were a little shocked he ended up running as a republican, but this is probably why. Half is what motivates him is all the shit talk, so I'll never get why everyone keeps antagonizing him. It just fuels his fire.