Donald J. Trump has a trove of nicknames he tosses out at his political foes.
Lyin’ Ted is one. So is Little Marco. Now he’s come up with Crooked Hillary.
Oh, but one of those adversaries, Ted Cruz, may have coined a name for Trump.
Whinin’ Donald.
Sen. Cruz today told Trump to quit his “whining” about the Republican Party’s delegate selection process leading up to the GOP presidential convention in Cleveland this summer.
Trump is griping about the process, calling it a “sham” and a “disgrace.” He says the game is rigged against him.
Actually, it’s not. It’s the way the RNC has set up the selection process. It allows candidates to persuade delegates to join their team. Trump’s campaign staff apparently hasn’t gotten the word on how the process works. They’re being outhustled by the Cruz Missile’s team.
Trump doesn’t like it.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus says he isn’t changing anything. The rules are the rules, he said. Trump has to work within those rules, the chairman added.
Priebus said the RNC will continue to insist that one of the candidates for president must have a majority of delegates pledged to capture the party’s presidential nomination. Trump suddenly is looking vulnerable in the hunt for delegates and he is arguing now that a plurality ought to be good enough.
No can do, Priebus said.
Trump now has turned to whining about the process.
This GOP campaign gets more fun as each day passes.