Trump just learned about the weird rules of GOP delegates — and he's pissed

Trump threatens another lawsuit.
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Donald Trump won about 3 percent more votes than Ted Cruz in the Louisiana Republican primary, but Cruz stands to walk away with as many as 10 more delegates from the state supporting him at the Republican National Convention thanks to arcane delegate allocation rules (which vary widely by state).

Needless to say, Trump is not happy. He took to Twitter Sunday afternoon to threaten a lawsuit against the GOP:

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.