How does the primary process change after this year?

[pikachu]

Obviously, this year, the primaries have been a complete disaster for Republican elites, and even after the less crazy 2008 and 2012 primaries, some things were changed. Assuming the nominee loses to Hillary this year, what changes do you think we'll see in 2020?

[Oldiesfreak1854]

The GOP will add some superdelegates similar to the Dems, but that's all I can think of.

[Pragmatic Conservative]

For the GOP
- add 10% of delagates as super delegates
- replace Nevada with Michigan as an early voting state
- some will press for Iowa and NH to loose their early voting state position, however nothing will change
-the GOP will better balance out Super Tuesday geographically: Colorado, Alaska, minnisoda, Ohio, Georgia, Virginia, Vermont, Massachusetts,Alabama, North Carolina, and Wyoming

[Mr. Morden]

Well, it depends on which option the powers that be conclude is worse: having a Donald Trump-like candidate win the nomination or having a contested convention?  Depending on which of those is considered to be worse, you could go in one of two completely opposite directions: Switching to a PR-like system like the Dems have increases the chances of a contested convention, but at least it prevents a Trump-like candidate from getting a majority of delegates on the back of weak plurality wins in key states.  OTOH, if you want to avoid a contested convention at all costs, then you switch to more WTA contests.

Either way, one area that will be looked at is the question of who is eligible to become a delegate.  If you do have a contested convention, then you want to have procedures in place that allow the convention to come to some kind of quick resolution, and not have blood on the convention floor.  Maybe you even want to set up a process that allows the delegates to deliberate in some organized way immediately after the last primary and well before the convention starts, so you don't have uncertainty going into the convention.

[Nym90]

Yeah, a candidate like Trump wouldn't have a chance under Democratic rules. 38 percent of the vote would mean 38 percent of the delegates; combined with opposition from superdelegates, it wouldn't even be close. Probably the closest equivalent to Trump on the Democratic side in the primary era was Jesse Jackson, who never seriously had a shot at the nomination for that exact reason.

So seems to me that'd be the simplest solution (not to mention the fairest, at least with regards to proportional allocation).

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Caucuses in every state except New Hampshire?