Trump is the only candidate remaining who has a mathematical chance to lock up the nomination before July’s GOP convention, but he may fall short of the 1,237 delegates needed to do so.
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As a result, Pennsylvania’s April 26 statewide primary election is relatively meaningless – a beauty pageant.
Trump earned nearly all of New York’s 95 delegates for the Republicans, putting him at 845 delegates after Tuesday’s vote. NBC10’s Lauren Mayk walks us through why Pennsylvania is so important to the presidential hopefuls. And when you have Ted Cruz saying, hey, we need special police patrols in neighborhoods where Muslims live – how that would ever work nobody can explain, but nevertheless that’s what he said.
A Real Clear Politics average of the most recent Maryland polls gives NY businessman Donald Trump the lead among GOP voters, with 41 percent support.
A total of 162 men and women are running for the delegate slots, but their personal preferences will not appear on the primary ballot.
“Nobody should take delegates and claim victory unless they get those delegates with voters and voting”. It enabled them to gain the huge lead in the delegates, and hold off their party opponents in the race. The Democrats have more overall delegates, so a candidate needs 2,383 to clinch a majority.
“We were behind”, Elleithee said. Mrs Clinton, from the Democratic Party, called her Republican rival “dangerous” in her victory speech while Mr Trump returned the compliment at a rally by calling the former secretary of state “crooked”.
It’s not the first time Biden has made comments interpreted as support for the Vermont senator.
Trump campaigned Saturday in the Northeast, where several states vote on Tuesday. NBC10’s Aundrea Cline-Thomas has that story.
“I don’t know, I think she’s qualified, I guess”, Trump said before adding that “that doesn’t mean she’s good”. But I would hate to make that choice, if I felt that way. The blunt reply: “I don’t think we can”.
Kasich campaign manager John Weaver told CNN at a meeting of GOP leaders Thursday that the OH governor is making his case directly to the prospective delegates. NBC10 political analyst Jim Shultz has more on what’s going on in the race.
” … the sturdy opposition to (Trump’s) candidacy within the party and his own organizational deficiencies have hampered him at the state and local level, where a byzantine process is underway to elect delegates to the Republican convention in Cleveland this summer”, wrote Jonathan Martin on Wednesday.
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Asher is cautioning delegates against taking a hard stance for or against a particular candidate.
