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GOP Delegate Rules Have Always Been Rigged
Elizabeth Drew, veteran journalist and the author of Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall (The Overlook Press, 2014), discusses the nuts and bolts of getting primary votes to getting delegate vote at the party conventions.
Drew says the delegate selection rules really are rigged against Donald Trump in favor of Ted Cruz; but these rules aren't new, nor are they deliberately meant to help one person.