Those pesky rules that Donald Trump rails against could end up costing him 50 crucial first ballot delegate votes at the GOP Convention, now that he has announced he won’t be bound by his loyalty pledge to support the nominee.  Getting to 1,237 votes would be all the more difficult, unless he reverses his reversal.  Zeke J. Miller reports at Time.com: The Palmetto State was one of several that required candidates to pledge their loyalty to the party’s eventual nominee in order to secure a slot on the primary ballot. Though Trump won all of the state’s delegates in the Feb. 20 primary, anti-Trump forces are plotting to contest their binding to Trump because of his threat on the pledge Tuesday. The loyalty pledge is nothing new in South Carolina, where it has been required for decades (snip) Trump has been hiring staff to ensure he hangs on to delegates in what could be a messy convention fight, but the latest threat appears to be an unforced error...(Read Full Post)