I think cheating can occur. But I don't think Republicans will stand for it in the primaries. Too many states would reject the results. If Pence, for instance, won in South Carolina, we would know it was rigged and the vote would never be certified.
2008 , John McCain won the Republican primary after he played the role of yes-man for Bush 43 for 8 years.
McCain,who ran for the nomination against George W. Bush in 2000.
On the campaign trail he'd misspoken a detail about Iraq when questioned by a reporter.
A Democrat who accompanied him during the campaign leaned in and gave him the correct information.
McCain then corrected his error.
A second reporter asked the same question as his colleague had prior, only worded it slightly different.
McCain parroted verbatim the prior errant information.
He was today's Biden.
A number of the Republicans running against McCain for the nomination dropped out of the race before the primary elections.
Of those remaining all but one candidate,Mitt Romney, dropped out of the race during the primary election.
Leaving only Mitt and John for the decision.
That rarely happens. Back then it was a given a Mormon,Romney,would never win the primary.
However, if everybody dropped out of the race before or during the primary, leaving only McCain that would have been deeply suspect.
But put in a Mormon as an opponent and McCain was a shoein.
President of the United States of America. The most powerful person in the world.
Government doesn't permit us to keep all the money we earn for our labors.
Do we really think the powers that are behind the government would let us choose who sits in that office?
Politicians are corrupt. It takes money to run for any office. And those who pay that money want something in return.
They buy their way into office. After all that money that's invested do you really think we can decide the one that was paid the most doesn't get the office because we didn't vote them in?
Besides advertising, why does it take a lot of money to run for office?