To secure the nomination, Trump needs to win 499 delegates to make it to 1,237.
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A contested and brokered convention might shape this year’s election.
The delegate math adds up to Sanders needing to win almost 60 percent of the remaining delegates to gain the nomination.
But they also may have awakened a little more anxious.
Could someone who hasn’t run in the primaries win the nomination?
“We’ve got the full spectrum of the Republican Party coming together and uniting behind this campaign”, he said. Those who are elected are supposed to vote for the presidential candidate who wins the district, at least in the first round of convention voting.
The Wisconsin Primary results are in, and the winners are Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders.
According to the exit poll published by CNN, Cruz beat Trump among both men (47 percent to 37 percent) and women (48 percent to 36 percent). “We have a choice, a real choice”. Well let me just say in response to Secretary Clinton: “I don’t believe that she is qualified if she is through her super PAC taking tens of millions of dollars in special interest funds”, Sanders told supporters in Philadelphia.
Trump has battled a series of campaign controversies in the lead-up to Wisconsin, including his campaign manager’s legal problems following an altercation with a female reporter and his own awkward stumbles in clarifying his views on abortion.
Unlike his primary election victories, Trump made no public appearance after losing the Wisconsin contest.
This week will be remembered as the one in which Ted Cruz and Donald Trump both effectively admitted they will not reach the GOP Convention with enough bound delegates to be the nominee.
At this point in the campaign, and following Tuesday’s loss to Cruz in Wisconsin, Trump may have to change his tactics if he wishes to regain his double-digit lead in the nationwide polls.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are still leading their respective presidential nomination contests, but they are the weakest frontrunners in recent history.
So far, Kasich has won only in the midwestern state he governs.
With 45 percent of the vote counted, Cruz had 52.0 percent, Trump had 31.3 percent, and Kasich had 14.4 percent.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Especially in the most populous southeastern part of the state around Milwaukee, Cruz was bouyed by Walker – who remains very popular with GOP voters – and by the state’s influential bloc of conservative radio hosts.
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“She has been saying lately that I am “not qualified” to be president”.
