Showing Trump needs 60% - 62% of remaining delegates.
Think he’ll do much better than that.
Calculations below.
As of 3/22 AM if Trump has 678 delegates
1237 Total delegates needed
678 Trump delegates to date
559 Bal Trump delegates needed
906 Total delegates remaining
62% % bal Trump delegates needed
As of 3/22 AM if Trump has 693 delegates
1237 Total delegates needed
693 Trump delegates to date
544 Bal Trump delegates needed
906 Total delegates remaining
60% % bal Trump delegates needed
If u take out NY/NJ Cruz is ten short if he gets every single other delegate. Cruz is out of it as of today.
Hard Delegates are those which have been permanently assigned from both the national and state levels as per party rules:
Another delegate has committed this afternoon to Trump (unsure from which state.)
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/R
Hard Total Delegates/Hard w. Soft Pledged:
Trump... 694/697
T.Cruz... 423/425
Kasich... 144/144
Interpretation of delegate commitment: http://www.thegreenpapers.com/Definitions.html#Coun