Republican leader says contested convention a likely possibility

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5. Help me contested convention, you're my only hope

Magical thinking of the highest order. If Trump gets to the convention with 1,237 or more delegates pledged to support him, he will be the Republican nominee. If Trump gets to the convention with fewer than 1,237 delegates, he has ordered his followers to riot. If the nominee is not Trump because he doesn't have the delegates, will the Republicans settle on Cruz, whom nobody likes? Perhaps. Perhaps not.

If the nominee isn't Trump or Cruz, will Republican voters just fall in line behind whoever comes out of the convention? Possible, but very unlikely. Anyone but Trump or Cruz will be perceived as damaged goods, a candidate manufactured out of the worst Rube Goldberg-style jerryrigging imaginable.

And the worst thing about it, if the Republicans run someone other than Trump or Cruz and they get flattened in November? It's the best thing that could happen to the GOP. That is, if they draw the right lesson from the debacle.