He is now the only candidate who can possibly collect the 1,237-delegate majority needed to claim the GOP nomination before the party’s July convention. Instead, those voters have gravitated to outsiders Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
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He was hoping to win more than 50 percent of the vote in NY against rivals Ted Cruz, a US senator from Texas, and Ohio Governor John Kasich.
This year, there’s a real campaign in Pennsylvania, and it’s about the delegates. There are 162 people on the primary ballot who are running to be a GOP convention delegate.
After Bernie Sanders urged his followers to contribute to Lucy Flores’ (D) congressional campaign in Nevada, they did: she’s raised 8,000 over the last three weeks. Beginning with the second ballot, they are as uncommitted as the 54 elected delegates. But their slates, which list individual delegate hopefuls that have promised to support the candidates at the convention, both fall well short of the total unbound bounty. About 10 percent of NY state’s population is reckoned to be Jewish, while the number hovers around 3-4 percent in the other Eastern states. But some have publicly announced whom they would support, allowing voters to essentially know which camp they’re backing in the primary.
So, there’s a chance that if the polls are correct, Trump could win the Pennsylvania primary, but could end up with only a handful of the 54 unpledged delegates supporting him.
For the Democrats, the process is less mysterious: Primary voters select 127 delegates who are affiliated on the ballot with either former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or Vermont Sen.
On the Democratic side, Clinton is leading Sanders 48 percent to 45 percent, which is within the margin of error. Coming from a Republican presidential candidate, his answer surprised many in the media.
It’s hard to tell whether all this bluster from the Sanders campaign about fighting to flip super delegates through the convention is serious, or just a way to motivate supporters to keep the faith. Many are remaining noncommittal, at least publicly. Hannity charged. “Every time I have you on the air and I ask you a legitimate question, you try to throw this in my face, I’m getting sick of it!” “I think some of the heated rhetoric that [Sanders] directed toward Hillary may have hurt him”. “It is up to you to win those delegate votes, vote for vote”.
Internal documents reveal Trump Campaign advisers are projecting the US Republican to have 1,400 delegates when he goes to the Cleveland Convention.
Asher is cautioning delegates against taking a hard stance for or against a particular candidate.
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“I’m not going to give up any leverage at this point”, he said, adding that a big victory for Trump in his district could strongly influence his decision.
