Trump of all people should know that he’s still a long way from closing the deal with the party he hopes to lead — and that he isn’t close to getting a majority of the delegates he needs to secure the nomination.
How many opponents did Reagan have to run against in his early primaries? Was it a field of 17?
As Harry Enten explains at FiveThirtyEight, Trump’s “percentages make him the weakest Republican front-runner, at this point in the process, in decades.” Reagan, for example, had nearly 50% of the vote and 70% of the delegates by April, the data show.
Trump of all people should know that he’s still a long way from closing the deal with the party he hopes to lead — and that he isn’t close to getting a majority of the delegates he needs to secure the nomination.
Trump is at 60% of the required delegates vs Regan’s 70%. Not bad considering this season has far more candidates running to split the vote.vThere were 10 candidates at the start of the 1980 Republican primary vs 17 at the start of the 2016 Republican primary.