Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump points to the crowd while speaking at a rally Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
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“There are five contests today”. Trump can afford to lose only one. His campaign also believes he can pick up delegates in CT, where 55 are at stake.
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Monday (April 25) took aim at Republican rival Donald Trump, saying he is not “in touch” with people.
That same morning, CNN’s Chris Cuomo asked Sanders if he would commit to supporting Clinton unconditionally, even if his preferred policies on health care and climate change did not make it into the Democratic platform. By no means is it a sure thing.
For Democrats, delegates will be doled out proportionately on Tuesday. That’s 392 short of the 1,237 needed to win the Republican nomination. Their only hope is to block him and force a contested national convention in July, with no candidate arriving with a majority.
The only news on Tuesday that would significantly alter that assessment would be if the frontrunner has a surprisingly bad night and earns less than 98 delegates.
After resounding victories in last week’s NY primary, Clinton and Trump are now looking to build on their already daunting delegate leads.
What follows is not a prediction, but a plausible path for Trump to stay on track Tuesday. The big prize of Pennsylvania is key and ABC’s David Wright is on the scene in Philadelphia right now. Marco Rubio’s campaign. Kasich didn’t stop campaigning in Florida, and Rubio lost his home state, while the OH governor won his. Some of those delegates have pledged to vote for either the statewide victor or the victor of their congressional district. An additional 159 superdelegates have yet to commit, but many have told the AP that they ultimately will support the candidate who wins the most delegates in the primaries and caucuses.
The billionaire said that he called up his credit card company to find out whether their customer support is based in the USA or overseas. How wide a berth do the candidates give each other? They’ll be distributed mostly on a proportional basis.
“There is desperation on the Trump side”, the Texas senator said, predicting Trump would “cry” over the arrangement because he’s a “sore loser”. My latest estimates at Styrk.com show that Trump could end up with just enough delegates to secure the nomination. The statewide victor gets 13 if he gets more than 50 percent of the vote.
Cruz and Kasich’s public admission of direct coordination was highly unusual and underscored the limited options they now have for stopping the real estate mogul. So, if Trump gets roughly half the vote, he’ll get roughly half of it’s 19 delegates. Trump will nearly certainly win some of these delegates, but how many is unknown.
Trump could lose Rhode Island and still get five delegates. If Trump loses DE, he has to make up the 16 elsewhere. Of the necessary 1,237 delegates, Trump now has 845.
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Wins today would put Clinton on track to clinch the nomination by mid-May.
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“The truth is that if you haven’t been working at these delegate contests for a while, you’re playing from way behind the eight ball”, Gerow said.
