Wang put Trump’s odds of getting the GOP nomination at 90%.
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Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton’s victories on March 15 in Florida, Illinois, Ohio and North Carolina cast doubt on U.S. Sen. The 2,383 delegates needed for the Democratic nomination was in sight for her. According to Politico’s Shane Goldmacher, some conservatives are serving notice that they intend to start preparing for the contingency of a Trump nomination with some radical options.
“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”, Trump added. Despite that fact that the Vermont senator did not win a single state on Tuesday, his youth support remained strong; Sanders had nearly double the amount of youth support than Clinton in Florida. Cruz could gain 40 delegates on Trump in one fell swoop – and here comes Kasich to try to stop him. And all of this will be happening amid very real pressure on the delegates not to give thugs a pretext to riot by denying Trump the nomination. As the count stands now, both margins of victory are small enough that Bernie Sanders or Ted Cruz would be able to request a recount to verify the findings, if they choose to do so. An FAU student said he voted for Sanders, “because I want free college”.
Trump certainly does seem to be bringing some new faces into our political process. Trump said. “So I was very surprised when I heard that Fox called for a debate, nobody told me about it, and I won’t be there, no”.
Protesters, organized by The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, stage a “die-in” in front of Trump Tower, the residence of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Wednesday, in NY. The outside groups American Future Fund, Our Principles and Club for Growth have no Trump attack ads planned for Arizona – a crucial winner-take-all contest in six days – or in any states beyond. “The way to beat Donald Trump is at the ballot box”, Cruz said on CNN. “We can’t lose what made America great in the first place, and this isn’t just about Donald Trump”, Clinton told supporters.
Former House Speaker John Boehner has thrown down the gauntlet on behalf of the Republican establishment by endorsing his successor Paul Ryan as the GOP presidential nominee at the party convention in Cleveland, in the event Trump arrives there short of the 1237 delegates he needs, even if he is ahead his remaining rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich. Fiorina said Republicans have “no clue” as to what kind of person Trump would nominate to the Supreme Court if he became president.
“I will not take the low road to the highest office in the land”, Kasich told supporters in Berea, Ohio. “But now it’s clear to everyone that this will go right through June 7, the end of the Republican primary season”.
Sen. Marco Rubio, who had been third in the delegate count, announced Tuesday he was suspending his campaign after a disappointing loss to Mr. Trump in Florida.
“People are angry, people are frustrated”, he said, adding it would have been easy to stir up those frustrations and make people more angry.
I don’t think he was kidding.
In comments to CNN, Neil Bush – Jeb Bush’s brother – said that Trump’s biggest successes have come in “open” primaries that allow independents or Democrats to vote in the GOP race.
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After Tuesday’s contests, Cruz has won just 29 percent of the delegates awarded so far. The ad focuses on Trump and not on Sanders, Clinton’s Democratic opponent.
