The math to get Trump the nomination

WND ^ | 3/8/2016 | Jerome R. Corsi

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Despite the Republican establishment’s “#NeverTrump” movement against the party’s presidential primary front-runner, Donald Trump’s campaign is positioned to advance this month.

Trump might even gain enough delegates by the end of March to reach the halfway point of the 1,237 needed to win the GOP presidential nomination on the first ballot.

Going into the week of March 7, Trump has 385 delegates versus 300 for Sen. Ted Cruz.

Cruz has surged since last Thursday’s Fox News debate, splitting with Trump the GOP elections held on Saturday. Cruz won the Kansas and Maine caucuses, while Trump took the primary contests in Kentucky and Louisiana.

On March 15, the GOP primary season enters a second phase, with “winner take all” contests in Ohio and Florida.

The previous elections were proportional, with each candidate obtaining delegates based on a percentage of the vote.

Based on the most recent polling data, Table 1 shows Trump obtaining more than 300 delegates in March primaries, with wins in both Ohio and Florida.

This would give Trump a total of nearly 700 delegates, with Cruz at about 400, presuming the Texas senator also loses the “winner- take-all” primaries in Missouri and Arizona, where Trump has commanding leads.

Conceivably, if Marco Rubio were to drop out of the race after losing the Florida primary, as currently projected, Cruz stands to gain voters who are reluctant to embrace Trump.

If Cruz loses Ohio and Florida to Trump, the mathematics dictate that Cruz’s best hope would not necessarily be to win outright, but to prevent Trump from getting the number of delegates needed to win the nomination on the first ballot.

The numerical chance that Cruz could win enough delegates to gain the nomination on the first ballot is increasingly slim...

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

GO TRUMP!!!

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

PING!

[manc]

trust me the establishment will do all it can to stop Trump and are doing. They are using Cruz right now as they know Cruz can’t get there, so they use him and then Trump does not get enough delegates.

They then stab Cruz in the back

[Mr Apple]

This is not the time for a candidate other then Mr Trump!

1. North Korea, just yesterday. threating to attack us with nukes

2.The Iranian's with their newly acquired 150 billion dollars -can simply buy nukes now!

3. Mullah Obama has already begun flying in his preset goal of 170,000 Islamic Muslim rapefugees! How many of these 170,000 will eventually beat, rape and murder our fellow Americans. How many of these 170,000 will arrive here - and eventually pull out machine guns on us.

4. The illegal mexican horde currently here and the illegal mexican hordes always enroute here -taking millions upon millions of jobs from Americans (white, black and hispanic Americans), swarming our schools, bankrupting our hospitals, raping and murdering fellow Americans. [and all the very slimy democrat politicians welcoming them -as potential democrat voters]

I'm voting for Trump!

[Blue Jays]

I refuse to post anything with that divisive and extremely negative hashtag that is being bandied about.
The ridiculous GOPe and their assorted watercarriers must come to grips with the will of the American people.

Go Donald Trump! Go Ted Cruz! Defeat Hillary Clinton!

[HarleyLady27]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieOaXjlV6Uc

100% Trump since June 2015, proud worker on the Trump Campaign!!!

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

I believe Cruz will screw over the GOP establishment by cutting a deal with Trump. He releases his delegates and endorses Trump, Trump names him as his running mate.

Game. Set. Match.

The two most establishment-hated candidates now are the ticket for the party.

[LibFreeUSA]

TRUMP will have way more delegates than CRUZ at convention.

TRUMP and CRUZ will negotiate a brokered convention.

CRUZ will not let Romney win nomination.

CRUZ will cut a deal with TRUMP for top policy/cabinet position, VP slot, or SC appointment if TRUMP wins NOV election.

End of story!

[LibFreeUSA]

EXACTLY!!!!!!!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Trump’s best tactic, as disturbing as it may be, is to go back to the birther thing.

“Do you want to risk a Constitutional Crisis, America, when some Liberal judge finds Ted Cruz is not natural born, and a deadlocked Supreme Court cannot resolve the issue?”

[Vigilanteman]

I think that is not only possible, but growing more likely. Trump is also much further ahead now than Mitt Romney was at this point in 2012. See the map:


Winners: Green= Romney, Blue= Santorm, Red= Gingrich

[Jane Long]

Wonder if CRuz has agreed to be Romney’s VP, at a brokered (fraud the will of the voters) convention.

[Blue Jays]

My sincere hope has been they can come together to negotiate a meaningful truce.
One done, they could also use that to showcase their ability to acknowledge different viewpoints to better the country.

Go Donald Trump! Go Ted Cruz! Defeat Hillary Clinton!

[Hurricane Andrew]

Ummm, those figures are electoral votes, not primary delegates.

[Blue Jays]

Oops, made a typo.
One = Once

[Vigilanteman]

Quite true. But the purpose of the graphic is to show states won, not delegates won. It does an accurate job of showing states won.

[Blue Jays]

Ted Cruz knows far better than to embrace that has-been election anchor Mitt Romney.

[Ancesthntr]

“TRUMP and CRUZ will negotiate a brokered convention.

CRUZ will not let Romney win nomination.

CRUZ will cut a deal with TRUMP for top policy/cabinet position, VP slot, or SC appointment if TRUMP wins NOV election.”

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I’d love to see him as the Veep, but I fear that there’s a bit too much water under the bridge for that to happen. However, naming Cruz as AG and (not by coincidence) allowing him to prosecute Hillary and some of the corrupt Obama people would be fine. Cruz could also be delegated the responsibility of picking ALL federal judicial nominees. A couple of years down the pike, Cruz gets named to the SC. Maybe to replace a Lib, or maybe to replace John Roberts (damaged goods who can be persuaded to resign).

[CA Conservative]

MO is not WTA unless a candidate gets over 50% of the vote. Otherwise it is divided up by congressional district and at-large delegates. The winner of each CD gets 5 delegates, and the overall winner gets another 12.

[JerseyDvl]

I really hope your right!!! That ticket would be unstoppable. Those two need to kiss and make up.