text:  If no one gets a majority of the delegates, then there would be a, quote, brokered convention. You may have heard brokered convention. It was something talked about in 2016 a lot when Donald Trump, they were talking about the possibility of a brokered convention in Cleveland. I was there for that when it was going on. It was insane. Now, what is a brokered convention? It is in which the delegates act as, in essence, free agents.