“When the media narrative goes negative on you, and all the news is bad, it kind of knocks us off”.
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Donald Trump is using simple mathematics to his advantage as he continues to make giant strides towards the Republican presidential nomination, USA Today reported.
If Trump enters the convention with less than 1,237, the event would be considered contested, and could even become brokered, the paper said.
“I still think it’s a very realistic chance that nobody’s going to have a majority of the delegates”, said Henry Barbour, a senior Republican National Committee member who worked on Marco Rubio’s delegate strategy until the Florida senator left the race Tuesday.
“If you just disenfranchise these people, I think you would have problems like you’ve never seen before”, Mr. Trump said on CNN’s “New Day”.
Clovis also discussed a meeting in Washington on Thursday of a group of conservative leaders, led by Erick Erickson, a blogger and radio host, and other conservative donors and influencers, who are committed to stopping Trump’s candidacy.
On Tuesday, in a classic case of irony, Trump won by losing, according to Sam Wang, a Princeton neuroscientist who has gained reputation since 2004 for having predicted USA presidential elections based on math, including coming within one electoral vote short of the exact 2008 presidential election results. The outside groups American Future Fund, Our Principles and Club for Growth have no Trump attack ads planned for Arizona – a crucial winner-take-all contest in six days – or in any states beyond. But Ryan quickly took himself out of the mix, saying through a spokeswoman that he would “not accept a nomination and believes our nominee should be someone who ran this year”. Bernie Sanders vows to keep going to the convention in Philadelphia, Hillary Clinton is well on the way to the nomination.
Ms. Clinton triumphed in the Florida, Illinois, Ohio and North Carolina presidential primaries with wins that were seen as putting her in a commanding position to become the first woman in USA history to win a major-party nomination.
As free agents, Greg Hartmann and other OH delegates would be a valuable prize in the race to the 1,237 votes needed for the nomination.
Establishment Republicans, upset with Trump’s popularity, could try to take the nomination away from him and even start politicking for Republicans not even in the race, such as Mitt Romney.
As it is, Wang put Trump’s odds of getting the GOP nomination at 90 percent. “‘I’m the only one, I beat him five times, ‘” Trump said. He picked up an endorsement Wednesday from Florida Gov. Rick Scott.
Fox News earlier confirmed the Republican debate scheduled for next week has been cancelled after Mr Trump said he would not attend. But Rubio trailed in the delegate count, having won only three contests so far.
Speaking to an audience in Houston, Texas, Mr Cruz said that America “now has a clear choice” in a “two-man race” between him and Mr Trump, excluding any mention of his rival John Kasich, who won his home state of Ohio.
“We have to bring our party together”, Trump said at his victory party in Palm Beach, vowing that he was going to “win, win, win”.
Any scenarios that end with blocking Trump could leave the party in chaos.
Before the last convention, Republicans said a candidate would need a majority of delegates in at least eight states to be formally considered.
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“If we don’t have a nominee who can win on the first ballot, I’m for none of the above”, former House Speaker John Boehner said at a conference in Boca Raton, Fla., on Wednesday. “A couple thousand people in a food fight in Cleveland pales in comparison”. “There’s already open warfare on TV”.
