By winning his home state, Ohio Governor John Kasich has now emerged as the last hope of conventional Republican leaders who find Mr. Trump’s rise unsettling.
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“The bottom line after tonight: it looks like Trump will not have a majority of delegates in July”, said Paul Beck, a professor of political science at Ohio State University.
Could someone who hasn’t run in the primaries win the nomination?
If Mr. Trump shows up to the convention with more delegates than anyone, but fewer than 1,237, he could, in theory, lose the nomination.
And Kasich delegate Mike Gonidakis, says he’s ready for a contested convention – saying that wrangling up delegate support inside Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena will be a transparent process.
Heavily criticized on the campaign trail, Marco Rubio’s voting record has been less than stellar – the worst in the Senate in fact, and his performance in the Florida primary – his home state – reflects just how little the people of Florida think of Rubio.
Mr. Cruz, though he has won at least eight states or territories, has not won the majority of delegates in all of those states. Clinton kept up her large margins with black voters, a crucial group for Democrats in the general election.
By far the more probable outcome is for the candidate with the most votes – in all likelihood Trump – to be voted in as the White House nominee following a round of deal-making in the run-up to the convention. We have Hillary Clinton, establishment politician in every sense of the word, and her antithesis Donald Trump, who has never held public office. With this, Rubio chose to withdraw from the race. Ms Clinton, who has 1561 against the required number of 2383, dominates the delegate count in the Democratic Party.
Delegates are different in each state.
At this rate, Ms. Clinton needs about 34 percent of the remaining delegates to secure the nomination, while Mr. Sanders needs 66 percent.
“Tonight I am suspending my campaign”, Jeb Bush said in February after the SC primary.
“If Trump has hundreds more delegates than the runner-up…it will be exceedingly hard to deny him the nomination”. The senator then explained the difference between a brokered convention and a contested convention.
Meanwhile, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton set her sights on a November showdown with Trump.
Clinton’s head of communications Jennifer Palmieri said it was unlikely that Sanders could overcome their delegate lead.
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Donald Trump’s unceasingly bombastic remarks have time and time again alienated women, minorities, the lower class, even people at his own rallies – yet he is still winning.
