If Trump were a car

Published July 12, 2016 4:01am ET



Think about this: You enter a contest with 16 other people, win by the rules, agree with the others to stand by the winner — and find out after the contest is over that others are trying to challenge your claim.

They don’t dispute that you won, or that the win was legal. They simply don’t like it that you are the winner, so they want to toy with the rules. That’s how the Trump people see the ongoing effort to unbind the delegates, and you can’t say that they don’t have a point.

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