Posted on 03/02/2016 12:51:07 PM PST by Kaslin
Donald Trump’s seven Super Tuesday wins helped pad his substantial delegate lead – but not enough to dispirit his top rivals, who still see a path to toppling the Republican front-runner and taking the fight to the convention if necessary.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, at the very least, seem determined to compete for every vote through the March 15 contests, which could make for the most consequential night of the GOP campaign.
That’s when the home states of Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich vote. And both states award every delegate on the table to the winner.
“If I win Florida, what does that math look like?” Rubio told Fox News on Wednesday, brushing aside pressure to drop out.
Here’s where the delegate math stands now:
It takes 1,237 delegates to clinch the nomination. Trump has 319; Cruz has 226; and Rubio has 110.
According to Associated Press estimates, Trump needs to lock down 52 percent of the remaining delegates to clinch the party nod.
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As long as Cruz stays in, to split the “anti-Trump” vote, Rubio has no chance at all of knocking Trump out. Trump is my #2 choice, and Rubio is dead last, so I’m okay with that outcome. I’d rather see Cruz win, but avoiding AmnestyBoy is worth celebrating too.
Thanks for posting another POS.
You’re the guy who gets paid to toss local marking crap in my driveway.
Alright.....let’s bring some reality into the picture.....Saturday we have some primaries and cacuses and I can’t believe how ignored they are being in the media. Very weird......It’s like the states between yesterday and 15 March don’t count. Trump has a decent edge in Louisiana, Maine, Nebraska and Kansas......then there is Ohio, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina....all of which will go to Trump (Ohio.....close 2nd maybe). The rest of the states are all Trump.....like Cruz is going to win California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York.....NOT......big time delegates in those 4 states. I think Cruz may win Utah and what the heck...I am feeling generous....I will throw in Nebraska.
Kaslin, weren’t you a Palin fan?
McConnell and his legacy are toast.
Trump is averaging only a third of Republican primary voter’s and he’ll lose to the Anti-Trump majority if we can clear the field and make it a one-on-one contest.
As much as I dislike Trump, if he gets the 1237 he had BETTER get the nomination.
If he doesn’t have the 1237 but he and Cruz have the most delegates entering the convention, ONE of them better end up with the nomination.
Granted, the GOP-e RINO RNC make the rules but if through some skuldugery on their part the above two outcomes do not occur, Cleveland will be but the first city to burn and Obama will have to call off the elections until order is restored.
Unfortunately, as long as Trump and Cruz don’t get the nod, the nation in flames is just fine with the GOP-e..
Newsflash, much of Cruz’s support is probably anti establishment
The next four GOP primaries will be “closed” aka only registered Republicans can vote.
We should learn much about Trumps “party” appeal.
That’s are Karl Rove tactic that’s already been proven wrong.
“If I win Florida, what does that math look like?” Rubio told Fox News on Wednesday
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If a frog had wings...........................
Both Rubio and Cruz losing head to head matchups against Trump according to multiple polling agencies with large sample sizes.
Cruz consistently only has strength among two sub-groups: "very conservative" and "evangelical," and loses by up to double digits "moderates," "conservatives" and "non-evangelical" sub-groups.
People who say what you have said are not paying attention to the voters Cruz is winning and losing.
Not weird at all. Talking about more races that Trump will win does not fit the narrative. It's like talking about Hillary's criminal mishandling of Top Secret material. I would still be behind bars today if I had done what she did, but it's not news because it doesn't help the media to get what they want.
Enough of this idiocy. A Bloomberg poll of Super Tuesday voters:
Trump beats Cruz 49-40 head-to-head and beats Rubio 48-44 head-to-head:
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-02-25/bloomberg-politics-super-tuesday-sec-primary-republican-poll
Ruby was a plurality win in 2010.
That’s not indicating big things in two weeks, is it?
Cruz lost Arkansas, a closed primary, and loses among moderates, conservatives and "non-evangelicals" by large margins. Cruz only wins "very conservative" and "evangelical" voters-- but, even then, not reliably, because he lost them in South Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, and in many places in the Deep South.
Cruz will do as poorly as he did in Virginia and other states where the "very conservative" vote isn't 44 percent of the voting population.
And, he's running out of states where both are the majority or a large percent of the vote.
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