>Add the total votes for everyone, but Trump and the total Trump vote and then get back to me.
Trump’s running at 37% in a 3 way race. That’s winning percentage in the vast majority of 3 way races. Ted on the other hand is sitting at 28% which is never a winning percentage in a 3 way race. Ted’s only doing as well as he is because the GOP is tacking on the delegates in his favor and has won a bunch of delegates from contests where the voters were not allowed to vote for a presidential candidate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_2016
Bad news for Ted is the party can’t steal votes for him in the general election.
The election is shaping up like this: If Trump can get out of the primaries he’ll destroy Hillery with cross over votes and an American first platform vs her globalist garbage machine. If Ted gets out of the primaries he’ll be destroyed by voters who think he’s a preachers and the vast majority of people who don’t give a damn about his “consistent” conservative act. Ted doesn’t have a thing to run on that will appeal to the average voter.
I doubt it. This is shaping up as the Romney Obama race. Hillary will win because either way a good portion of the Republican base won’t turn out for Cruz or Trump. Yes a non vote for either one is a vote for Hillary but you can’t have such a bloodletting as we have here and not expect it. Yes it won’t be in anyone’s own best interest, but the hate runs deep and it is often human nature to extract revenge even against one’s own interest, it ins’t logical, but it is more often true than not.
In fact my post more than likely reinforced your likelyhood to do such, just as your post added another layer to my own.