Indiana's Political Class Tells Politico Their Plan To Defeat Trump

A collection of the usual suspects from the political class in Indiana assures Politico that Trump is not going to have delegates who will support him in a contested race at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this summer regardless of how Hoosier Republicans cast their votes in next month's primary. State Republican leaders who will determine who becomes a delegate to the national convention are almost all lobbyists, political consultants, government contractors and the general sort that are self-identified Republicans for personal self-interest as opposed to ideological inclinations. It's why many of us have already or are planning to leave the Republican Party.

Unlike my native state of Illinois, Indiana does not allow presidential candidates' campaigns to pick their own delegate candidates; rather, they are only technically bound to support the candidate who carries the congressional district from which they were chosen or according to the statewide vote, in the case of at-large delegates.  These political insiders are gleefully boasting that they have already laid the groundwork to put the screws to Trump regardless of the outcome of next month's primary election because of this rigged insider process for selecting delegates. That's not necessarily good news for Ted Cruz either because none of these people like him either. Trump's campaign chairman, Rex Early, says he's not too worried, but he should be if you accept the fact that Trump won't have enough delegates to win the nomination when he arrives in Cleveland, regardless of what his newly-hired political consultant/delegate manager, Paul Manafort, is claiming.