Let me begin by saying I am convinced candidate Donald Trump will get the 1,237 delegates he needs, so this outline could be just an intellectual exercise. However, last night on Sean Hannity RNC Chairman Reince Priebus discussed the delegate math and state of the GOP race headed toward the presidential nomination.
RNC Chairman Preibus and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan are best friends having grown up in the same town in Wisconsin and attending High School together. Please focus your attention to the specific wording he uses @05:34. Close attention:
[…] “And you want people to at least say, when they walk away, OK they played it straight; that’s what’s really important in this process”…
We pointed out on February 25th the five times (in 24 hours) prior to the Houston CNN debate, including on the stage itself, when Reince Preibus stated emphatically the “presidential candidates were applying to join the party“. Meaning from the RNC position the party apparatus is external to the presidential candidates, who are trying to join the RNC team by winning the nomination.
In the days that followed Preibus’s comments, we all saw a very specific approach by the RNC/GOPe to align with the “Stop Trump” movement. It was only a few days later when Mitt Romney entered the foray and became the tip-of-the-spear in that regard.
When you combine the expressed views of the RNC as shared by Sean Spicer and Reince Preibus, what becomes clear is an unspoken -yet inherent- predisposition to push Trump out of the process. Despite his claims to the contrary, when you see Preibus say:
“And you want people to at least say, when they walk away, OK they played it straight; that’s what’s really important in this process”…
Those are his exact words. He’s not saying: “if they walk away“, he’s saying: “when they walk away”. Inherent in that statement is the expectation of someone walking away.
Who would that be? Trump or Cruz. But clearly, and most expectedly, the candidate the entire party apparatus has said they would not accept, ie. Donald Trump.
Preibus is saying the anticipated outcome will force Trump to walk away, but at least Trump will have seen the transparency of the convention as they openly disallow the nomination. In essence saying: we expect to be hated, but at least you’ll clearly know why we should be hated, because we will be wide-open in the screwing of you for all to see.
