A horde of Republican Super PACs are pouring millions of dollars into blocking Donald Trump, not by defeating him outright but by keeping him from getting enough delegates so that they can pick a “winner” at the Republican National Convention. They shouldn’t expect Trump and his supporters to be silent about that plan, though. Asked about a scenario in which he entered the convention with the most delegates but didn’t end up as the nominee:
"I think that whoever is leading at the end should sort of get it. That's the way that democracy works," Trump said on the program.
"I don't know that that's going to happen. But I'll tell you, there are going to be a lot of people that will be very upset if that doesn't happen," Trump said. "I think that would be pretty unfair."
I have a feeling that Trump would be a lot less restrained in his response if this scenario actually played out. And he’s not wrong that a lot of people would be very upset. Watching the Republican establishment flip from trying to force the lesser candidates out so they could consolidate against Trump to keeping the lesser candidates in to split support as much as possible in a last-ditch effort to keep Trump from getting the last few delegates he needed, then throwing the nomination to a candidate with many fewer delegates? That would be an ugly display of insider power over average voters, the kind of thing that reminded a lot of voters why they liked candidates like Trump or Ben Carson to begin with.