They never do. The delegates are apportioned per the party rules. The rules were in place long before the primary and applied equally to both. Trump got trumped because he didn't play the game well.
The delegates are suppose to reflect the will of the voters if not, what is the post of voting in a primary or attending a caucus. This corporate entity that is trying to pass itself off as a legitimate governmental body is truly showing to the sheeple what it is really all about........but will they wake up? That is the million dollar question.
That's usually how it works when the delegates are behind the primary winner. I hate to break it to you but primaries and party nominations have never been a democratic process. The parties are not governmental bodies. They're private entities who choose whom they wish to represent their party. Part of the calculus for those considering a presidential bid is determining if they have a significant enough amount of party support to make a run viable. Obviously Trump does not in some states.
You are probably right because none of the presidents have been elected but rather selected. Donald Trump is proving that the banking oligarchs that really run this country are pulling rank. America is truly and royally fucked.
This isn't the presidential election. This is the primaries. This is how it's always been done. The parties choose their nominee, not the people. I'm sorry you just realized this but blaming bankers is not a rational position. The truth is, any candidate needs the support of their respective party or they won't get the nomination. Trump may not have ever had it.
If the people do not choose the nominee than the system (like I said earlier) is a total sham. I know a lot about this and how the establishment really runs this country...not a duly elected congress or even the pResident....you might want to listen to me about this. I opted out of the system 4 years ago when I became a pre-14th amendment sovereign and reclaimed my "man of the land" status which excludes me from being able to vote because I am no longer a U.S citizen claiming loyalty to the corporate "gubermint" whose headquarters are in the city/state of Washington D.C. It was my hope that Donald Trump could shake things up and have us return to the Organic Constitution instead of the one that was written in 1871 which is nothing but a corporate charter.
You're wrong dude as well as a loon. The people have never chosen a nominee, ever.
Take a look at how Lincoln was nominated. It sounds all too familiar. He was not expected to win the nomination but he did by persuading the delegates. The delegates are everything.
1860 Republican National Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The convention met in mid-May, after the Democrats had been forced to adjourn the
1860 Democratic National Convention in
Charleston, South Carolina without a nominee and had not yet re-convened in
Baltimore, Maryland. With the Democrats in disarray and with a sweep of the Northern states possible, the Republicans were confident of victory. Senator
William H. Seward of New York was generally expected to get the nomination.
Other candidates seeking the nomination at the convention included Lincoln,
Governor of Ohio Salmon P. Chase, former U.S. Representative
Edward Bates of
Missouri, and U.S. Senator
Simon Cameron of
Pennsylvania.
As the convention developed, however, it was revealed that Seward, Chase, and Bates had each alienated factions of the Republican Party. Delegates were concerned that Seward was too closely identified with the radical wing of the party, and his moves toward the center had alienated the radicals. Chase, a former Democrat, was opposed by many of the former
Whigs who had become Republicans, was thought to be too radical on slavery, had opposed tariffs wanted by Pennsylvania manufacturing interests, and critically, had opposition in his own delegation from
Ohio. Bates outlined his positions on extension of slavery into the territories and equal constitutional rights for all citizens, positions that alienated his supporters in the border states and southern conservatives.
German-Americans in the party opposed Bates because of his past association with the
Know-Nothings.
It was essential to carry the West (what would today be considered the Middle West), and Lincoln was a prominent Westerner. He had a national reputation from his debates and speeches, in which he eloquently opposed slavery while avoiding any of the radical positions that could alienate moderate voters. He had the support of the Illinois and Indiana delegations before the convention, and was the strongest candidate other than Seward.
Nonetheless, Seward's prestige appeared likely to carry him to the nomination.
Lincoln was represented at the convention by his friends
Leonard Swett,
Ward Hill Lamon, and
David Davis. During the night of May 17–18, they worked frantically to win anti-Seward delegates for Lincoln. They showed that Lincoln already had the most support after Seward, which persuaded some. They also made a deal with Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, who recognized that he had no chance of winning the nomination himself. Cameron controlled the Pennsylvania delegation, and he offered to trade his support for the promise of a cabinet position for himself and control of Federal patronage in Pennsylvania. Lincoln did not want to make any such deal; from Springfield, he telegraphed to Davis "I authorize no bargains and will be bound by none".
[8] Despite this restriction, Davis reached an understanding with Cameron, which eventually led to Cameron's appointment as
Secretary of War.
The next day (May 18), when voting for the nomination began, Seward led on the first ballot with Lincoln a distant second. But on the second ballot, the Pennsylvania delegation switched to Lincoln, putting him in a near-tie with Seward. On the third ballot many additional delegates switched to Lincoln, and he won the party's nomination
