Posted on 03/29/2016 5:21:02 AM PDT by McGruff
With just three candidates left in the Republican primary race, Donald Trump now holds 48 percent support of registered Republicans and Republican-leaners, according to the NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll. This is more than 20 points higher than his second-place competitor, Ted Cruz—who now enjoys 27 percent support. John Kasich got a boost of 2 points this week and holds third place with 18 percent support.
The question in the Republican race, however, is no longer whether Trump is the clear front-runner, but whether he will reach the magic delegate number of 1,237—and, if not, whether Republicans will support him as their party’s nominee going forward. These are big questions that have implications for the direction of the Republican Party and, ultimately, the outcome of the 2016 presidential race.
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I thought Trump had peaked at 35%? /s
This is a lot like global warming, which causes cold weather. Trump’s peak at 35% caused his numbers to rise further, which proves he peaked. He’s doomed.
Doomed, I say. Doomed!!
Doomed!!!
It was a joke, she was acting real tough ( I kept thinking about the 500,000 bribe) and this woman is a joke.
She made Ted Cruz look small.
All she could say Trump this Trump that
Time for Ted to go he is Third in Wisconsin and New York.
Can win enough delegates.
Yeah and iSnarly practically leaped in front of Saint Ted when a reported asked him if he was going to simply make a statement that he had never been unfaithful to his wife and put an end to all the speculation, FioRino cut in, deflected the question and started up with the Trump-this and Trump-that.
Ted’s $500,000 investment paid off, but at what cost?
My sense is that Mr Trump has made some weak decisions lately. I like the man, but he needs to learn the difference between petty and serious attacks. Some would say that an attack on his wife is serious because it’s a challenge. That is belied by the nature of the attack. If an attacker comes at you with a nerf dart gun that’s a whole lot different than if attacked with a glock. The attack on Melania was with a nerf dart gun. The better treatment would have been laughing at the stupidity of posting a picture that was in the commercial public domain of an acknowledged world level model. He wasn’t winning Utah anyway.
Trump needs 1237 voting delegates at the convention. National percentage of polled voters has no relevancy.
Exactly. I don’t know what the hell Cruz is still doing in this race.
He is not leading anywhere and has fallen behind the son of the mailman in the upcoming primaries.
He is just acting as an establishment spoiler at this point. Attacking Trump to help Hillary win. He should get out now.
MSNBC & most folks are unfamiliar with state delegate rules:
1. Of the 57 delegations, there are some that could DQ Cruz for lack of meeting the legal qualifications for president. They do have to cast their ballots for him as a block vote or in some cases individually.
2. Some delegations are bound to the 3rd vote and even up to 4th round to Trump. Florida’s 99 delegates will vote Trump through the 3rd round.
Cruz really is pretty much irrelevant statistically. If one looks at his “wins” at votes received and favorability polling he just is so obviously a weak candidate. It is the media and Cruz campaign providing the illusion that he can win. The strategy (and it is a long shot) is to deprive Trump the nomination...no one can legitimately beat him. Wow, how low self esteem his supporters must have to be working against democracy.
The one glaring omission in these polls are the registered independants that left the party long ago.They are all in for Trump and his numbers are significantly higher.Just hide and watch.
They do NOT have to cast their ballots for him as a block vote or in some cases individually.
GO TRUMP!!
After watching the Cruz-Fiorina fiasco yesterday, it sure looks like the Cruz campaign is in full-blown self-destruct mode. Cruz looked very weak, and couldn’t even repeat what the reporter fed him to make it all go away, all he and Fiorina did was blame Trump.
It will be interesting to see what the polls show as the primary gets closer. For all we know, it might not have any effect, it might even get him sympathy, or it could make people look at him very negatively. Just have to wait and see.
Well, the polls say you are wrong. That Trump retweet led Cruz and the media to overreact and the Cruz campaign is pretty much destroyed.
I like your words - Cruz is irrelevant statistically.
This has been a charade of a primary election. The race is such a lopsided win for Trump that it’s ludicrous to suggest otherwise. We are stuck with a non-winner trying to steal delegates from a winner that’s way out in front on so many levels and issues.
Team Cruz is good at weaseling wins in small caucus states known for their oddball vote counting methods and lack of exit polling.
Cruz won:
Virgin Islands by 30 votes
Wyoming by 480 votes
Alaska by 600 votes
Maine by 2,500.
Ted’s votes from his 9 wins.
Wyoming 620 people
Virgin Isl 200 people
Alaska... 8,400
Maine.... 8,500
Kansas. 35,000
Iowa.... 52,000
Utah.. 122,00
Okie. 158,000
He won eight states totaling 385,000 votes.
If it wasn’t for Texas, he’d have a pile of beans.
Ted’s lackluster Texas win, Texas 1,239,393.
Cruz’s winning votes in nine states are 1,724,000.
Cruz won 9 states with 1,724,000 votes
Trump won 21 states, and nearly all the states were won by tens or hundreds of thousands of votes. The millions that have attended his rallies have voted.
Marianas (343).... Hawaii 6K
Vermont 20K.... Nevada 35K
Kentucky 83K.... N. H. 101K
Louisiana 125K.... Arkansas 133K
Mississipi 191K.... South Car 241K
Arizona 250K.... Mass. 311K
Tenn. 333K.... Virginia 356K
AlaBama. 372K.... Missouri 382K
N. Carol 458K.... Michig. 483K
Georgia 503K.... Illinois 557K
And FLorida 1,079,741
Trump won 21 states with 6,020,000 votes. He has a total of 7,897,990 votes and 755 delegates. Thats 290 more than Ted.
Cruz’s only way to prevail now is by pure chicanery, just how he began this campaign. It is impossible now for him to have a clean delegate win.
Now we know why sCruz keeps making noise about his Bang of 8 being a Trump attack, Senator Snake sCruz is dropping off the charts
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