Let’s assume that Donald Trump finishes the primaries with more delegates than any other candidate, but not a majority, and Sen.
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“Now, if you disenfranchise those people and you say, ‘Well, I’m sorry, but you’re 100 votes short, even though the next one is 500 votes short, ‘ I think you would have problems like you’ve never seen before”.
But Trump still won about three-fifths of the delegates awarded on Tuesday, thanks to his big wins in the winner-take-all state of Florida and the winner-take-most state of IL. Ted Cruz of Texas – can strengthen their hands heading into a conceivably contested convention by collecting as many delegates in California as possible.
Basking in the glory of a string of primary election victories, businessman Donald Trump yesterday warned of unrest if the Republican Party tried to prevent him from becoming its presidential nominee.
Cruz and Kasich are now fighting to keep Trump from reaching 1,237 delegates.
Hillary Clinton now looks certain to win the Democratic nomination.
The victor in Missouri wins 12 additional delegates to the convention, above those proportionally allocated by congressional district.
The other candidate still in the race, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, won his home-state Tuesday.
His victories have caused major headaches for the Republican party as many senior members are concerned by his lack of policies and anti-immigration tone.
Boehner, in remarks to the Futures Industry Association first reported by Politico, said he’d back Ryan if the three remaining GOP rivals “all had a chance to win” and couldn’t clinch the nomination on the first ballot. He is followed by Cruz (396), Rubio (168) and Kasich (138). He suggested Kasich is well-positioned to amass delegates in the upcoming primary contests to help bolster his position in a contested convention.
Clinton kept up her large margins with black voters, a crucial group for Democrats in the general election. Some conservatives who oppose him say the only way to stop Trump is to deny him the nomination at the party’s national convention but they haven’t figured out a way to do it.
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Trump also effectively killed the next GOP debate scheduled for Monday in Utah, saying “we’ve had enough debates”. Johnson though is pointing to two April states where they expect to wage war: Wisconsin, where advisers say to expect “a lot of Cruz campaign activity”, and Trump’s delegate-rich homestate of NY.
The delegate math is tight for Trump, but a path to a majority does exist for him.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton all but secured the nomination from her party, but with an investigation into Clinton’s emails as Secretary of State, Bernie Sanders should remain in the race as long as he can, even though I don’t envision a scenario where Sanders wins the nomination.
Trump didn’t name any senators in his interview on MSNBC the morning after his wins in Florida, Illinois and North Carolina Tuesday night.
Clinton has at least 1,561 delegates, including the superdelegates who are elected officials and party leaders free to support the candidate of their choice.
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“We can’t lose what made America great in the first place, and this isn’t just about Donald Trump”, Clinton told supporters in West Palm Beach, Florida.
