Cruz wins 100% of the vote in the remaining primaries and he still falls short. Why doesn't he get out? Oh, that's right, he really believes he's going to be anointed at a contested convention by a GOPe that is only using him and which utterly despises him.
What a tool.
I doubt he believes that. He's probably thinking about 2020 or beyond and putting in the grunt work now.
He's tried to maximize his camera time as a first term senator but that could never give him the name recognition he's gaining now.
he probably figures he can generate GOPe support for 2020 by being the spoiler now. If Trump is the nominee, the GOPe will give him Luke warm support at best and hope for his loss.
By being second this year, things open up for Cruz in 2020 or 2024.
I’m afraid that it may be you and other Trumpettes who will turn out to be the tools. Cruz already has more delegates than Trump, but many of them are pledged to vote for Trump on the first ballot, as a result of Trump’s pluralities in the early Beauty contest votes.
And while you guy are focused on Cruz’s pledged delegate count, I’ve been tracking Trump’s. Trump has no chance at this point of amassing sufficient plrdged delegates on the first ballot, and if he doesn’t win on the first ballot, he’s yesterday’s news. Cruz OWNS the second ballot, where all his delegates are free to vote for him.
One thing that has become apparent to me over the past couple months is how Trump amd most of his followers exhibit the hallmark of a loser: he an most of you habitually blame others for his and your own failures.
Losers, and sore losers at hat.
Cruz needs 94% and Trump 65% of the remaining Delegates.
Cruz only needs less than 723* of the remaining 769.
Trump only needs less than 497* of those 769.
*Delegates from Wisconsin are yet to be awarded.
Cruz will easily pick up most of Rubios delegates and some of Trumps delegates on a second vote.
It’s going to be hard for Trump to pick up 497 more delegates. (Though not impossible)
Trump will be roughly 100 or so delegates short of the magic number at convention time. Assuming that to be the case, not giving him the nomination would be highway robbery. Not to mention an outrageous thwarting of the voters’ expressed will.
Republicans need to wake up and remember the fact that their last two nominees lost because of poor voter turnout. Yet they are doing everything they can to wind up in the same soup again. Sounds like the definition of insanity to me.
Trump is turning out the numbers everywhere and he’s doing it in spite of the party NOT because of it.
That’s a great chart!
Thanks