CBS news and other major news organizations calculated the results based on the number of delegates bound to Trump by primaries and conventions and the unbound delegates who have said they will support him.
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By securing 1,238 delegates, one more than the magic number required, Trump has wrapped up victory in the Republican primary season and avoided a contested convention that some of his political enemies within the Grand Old Party had been seeking, EFE news reported.
He’s sure to pick up more on June 7, when 303 delegates are at stake in five state primaries.
According to the delegate count kept by the Associated Press, Mr Trump, the brash NY billionaire who has been unopposed since his last two rivals dropped out of the contest in early May, made it to the vaunted 1,237 threshold – and just beyond.
“For the life of me, I cannot believe that a country like the United States can afford to have someone as president who simply says, ‘These people are not going to be allowed to come to the United States, ‘” Turki said.
While many prominent Republicans including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan have yet to endorse Donald Trump, the bulk of the party seems to be moving towards Mr Trump’s camp.
Donald Trump now has enough delegates to clinch the Republican presidential nomination.
Trump, the only remaining GOP candidate left in the race, will go on to accept the nomination at the party’s national convention in Cleveland.
President Obama underscored their concerns – expressed privately – when he said Thursday that the leaders at the Group of Seven summit in Japan are “rattled” by the prospect of a Trump presidency.
“If they’re rattled in a friendly way we’re going to have great relationships with these countries”.
For me, having been in politics such a short period of time, I do like the fact that he approaches things without any fear of how the media’s going to react to him.
How do you feel about Trump’s nomination?
“There were a lot of Republicans who had said that they were “Never Trump”. and that’s just not the case”. Others worry about his crass personality and the lewd comments he’s made about women.
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have agreed to debate, though nothing has been officially scheduled yet.
They are backing Trump even in the face of resentment and suspicion from friends and family, who are among the overwhelming majority of non-white voters opposed to the NY businessman’s candidacy. Ben Koppleman, who was riding with him.
Rick Wiley, who ran Wisconsin Governor Scott Walkers’s ill-fated presidential campaign, “was hired on a short-term basis as a consultant until the campaign was running full steam”, Trump’s campaign said Wednesday.
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Donald Trump, the big delegate victor.
