What Is a Brokered Convention? GOP Rules Favor Drumpf

[KamaAina]

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/what-brokered-convention-gop-rules-favor-trump-n535381

If Donald Trump fails to win a majority of delegates in the presidential race, some Republican insiders say the party could use a contested convention to deny him the nomination in July.

There's just one problem: The rules for that scenario still favor Trump...

On the first ballot, every delegate Trump won in the primaries is strictly bound to back him. There is no other option. If a Trump delegate tries to bolt on the first ballot, RNC Rule 16 mandates the delegate has effectively "resigned," and their "improper vote" is "null and void."...

The other alternative some Republican insiders have outlined, where a Paul Ryan or John Kasich is nominated to "stop Trump," is unfeasible based on the rules and perilous based on the politics.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Couldn't someone else win on the second ballot?

[metroins]

2. Yes.

That's why this article is just click bait/headlines.(I'm not blaming the OP for posting it, just the way the news frames it).

After the first vote, things get crazy.

[KamaAina]

3. Yes. If there is a second ballot.

The rules are designed to prevent that (as are the Dems').