The establishment’s last opportunity to stop the former reality television star is likely a series of winner-take-all states on March 15. He invested a huge amount of time and money in SC and the SEC primary states.
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Ladbrokes PLC said on Wednesday morning that Trump’s odds of securing the nomination were 1-5.
Thus far, Donald Trump has 319 delegates, while Ted has 226.
March 15 is the first date to watch.
With results still coming in, Trump had won at least 192 Super Tuesday delegates, while Cruz picked up at least 132.
“I am betting against Trump getting the nomination at these odds but only because I think there is a 30 percent chance the GOP elite somehow successfully blocks him at the convention”, said a post from a forum member with the username matthewcooley.
But Cruz used his victories to argue he is the only Republican who can beat Trump. “Donald Trump will never have 1,237 delegates and I’m going to campaign as long as it takes”.
“Super Tuesday” has come and gone, so where do the candidates stand as they move on to the rest of the primaries?
Hillary Clinton before her Super Tuesday speech.
Ms Clinton, at her victory night party, also in Florida, focused on the potential face- off with Mr Trump.
With wins in Oklahoma and his home state of Texas, Ted Cruz was able to claim a victory of sorts.
Ted Cruz followed closely with a win in home state Texas, Oklahoma and Alaska. Marco Rubio picking up his first victory of the 2016 race. Trump already has proved he can win just about anywhere.
Winning those states could bring Trump closer to locking things. Carson stopped short of suspending his campaign, but with only eight delegates and no state wins, his run for the White House is virtually over. Recent polls show Clinton ahead in all seven of these states by double digits. “When we unify there is nobody who is going to beat us!”
Strong in the South, Hillary Clinton used the Super Tuesday contests to build an advantage over Bernie Sanders that will be hard to overcome. The goal now is to make sure Donald Trump doesn’t win the nomination -even if it means a bitterly contested convention fight that could rip apart the Republican Party.
But he allowed, with the GOP race still open, that another candidate might also be able to take her on – taking another swipe at Rubio in the process.
“I think that’s a very real possibility”, Christine Todd Whitman, a former New Jersey governor, told National Public Radio. “He’s got precisely that and it’s going nowhere for the time being”, said Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political newsletter published by the University of Virginia.
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“There is still much more of the nomination process to go and there is a firm resolve among Trump’s rivals to see this through to the end of the process”, says Campbell, author of the forthcoming book Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America.
