That’s why it pays for presidential campaigns to know how the delegate process works inside states, and not just focus on the popular vote. The other 54 are elected on Tuesday, three for each congressional district in the state.
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The Republican National Committee meets in Florida later this week.
More than 55 percent of voters preferred that the Republican Party select a nominee who ran in the primaries should there be a contested convention.
Polling figures generated Thursday by RealClearPolitics suggest Trump’s chances of beating Clinton in the general election aren’t as good as his rivals’.
Maryland (38 delegates). The statewide victor will receive 14 delegates.
Most national polls have Trump winning NY with 60 percent of the vote, with Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Texas Sen. And, sitting on the horizon is Pennsylvania with its whopping 71 delegates – a state where he holds a solid lead in the polls.
Rhode Island (19 delegates).
In that case, convention delegates will vote for the candidate they are bound to on the first ballot, but then are free to vote for whom they wish on subsequent ballots. Interviews were conducted with 1,391 Democratic voters and 957 Republican voters at 35 precincts throughout New York State. Ted Cruz is thought to have the best-organized ground game in California.
DE (16) delegates. The victor will receive all of the delegates.
Trump repeated his argument that the GOP nominating process is rigged and that he should get the nod if he comes into the convention with the most delegates – even without reaching the 1,237 needed to clinch the nomination. “At the end of the day, this is not about any of the candidates”. “We are very, very locked in”, said Westrate, who has been a vocal Trump critic.
Time Deputy Editor Radhika Jones, who oversees the list, told Reuters they chose to include the candidates who are “most changing the game”.
“Clearly, because things are going a little more slowly than the candidates would have wanted, DE matters a little bit”, he said. It is nonsense. They are making it up.
Mykoff said he has seen no polling to indicate where the race is, but he said DE shares geographical and other traits with the other northeastern states voting next week.
“In terms of the science of polling, that’s not at all uncommon for the people that are thought of the most to do the worst”, he said, adding “every time Donald Trump has a challenge, he steps up to it and seems to prevail”.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania, long an afterthought in presidential primary stakes, may emerge as a key player in crowning this year’s Republican presidential nominee.
