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Trump accepted GOP rules before his loud complaints

Let's see if I get this right: Donald Trump thinks he should be the Republican presidential candidate even if he does not get 1,237 delegates because he has more popular votes than the other candidates.

Be advised, all 17 candidates accepted the required delegate number rule at the beginning of the presidential campaign season last year.

Using Trump's analogy, all sporting games should declare winners based on the number of home team fans in the stands, not by the final score. This ideology means the home team will always win the event regardless of the score even when it loses the game by one or more points.

For two weeks, he whined how the RNC (Republican National Committee) is not being fair to him because of this rule, which he agreed to last year. With this attitude, if elected president, will he complain when Putin or ISIS or Congress or anyone for that matter disagrees with him? Is he going to whine to the press and news media about how he is being mistreated?

During that two-week period, he never addressed any critical issues. Why? Do you think he will: deport 12 million illegal immigrants; get Congress to approve his policies when he called them incompetent; re-es

Ltablish our foreign policies; enable businesses to hire more people; keep us safe, etc.?

John T. George

Bradenton

This story was originally published April 29, 2016 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Trump accepted GOP rules before his loud complaints ."

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