Donald Trump’s temper tantrum about “winning over delegates” has prompted Seth Meyers to ponder how effective Trump actually is at dealmaking.
“Donald Trump remains the front-runner for the GOP nomination, but he’s lagging far behind Ted Cruz in one crucial aspect of the race,” Meyers pointed out in his “A Closer Look” segment.
Trump and his supporters stick to one qualification: Trump is a manager and who makes deals and wins. Trump has been “so far, very, very bad” at running the operation of winning over delegates in states where they don’t hold primaries, Meyers argued.
Trump responded to winning zero delegates in Colorado by suggesting “the system, folks, is rigged.” Colorado conducted their system “by you know what, right? Right?” Trump suggested, prompting Meyers to point out “it sounds like Trump doesn’t even know how they did it.”
Meyers admitted that “the rules are tricky,” but with how smart Trump claims he is, he should be able to figure them out. Instead, Trump’s campaign “has made some of the dumbest mistakes possible in its delegate recruitment efforts.”
Recruiting delegates is necessary in states where delegates are not bound on the second ballot, such as in Washington state. There, the campaign sent out reminders to possible delegates on April 8 that they had to register by April 6. The notice was also sent to residents of Washington, D.C., instead of Washington state.
For all that he’s failed at, Trump could be very good at one thing: paying off delegates. That might not be illegal, as “that’s how crazy a contested convention could get.”
