The proverbial Apples and Oranges. Winning fair and square is one thing, winning via some fucked up "rules" that robs the man/woman with the most votes is a whole other.
So Gore should have been President then?
Elections aren't decided by who has the most votes. Elections are decided by the vote within the rules set forth before the vote. That's how American democracy works.
We do not decide the Presidency by which candidate has the most votes. Nor do we decide the representation in Congress by who has the most votes. A party can win the Presidency, the Congress and the Senate all by having less votes nationally than the other party. Those are the rules set forth before the election.
The rules of the Republican Party are the candidates at the convention decide the nominee. The states decide who gets to be the delegates and how they will vote. That's how it works. Always has.
if you candidate doesn't understand the rules, that's a problem with your candidate.
You might want to think about how prepared your candidate would be as President if he isn't prepared enough to know the basic rules of the nomination.