When all is said and done, Cruz will walk away with more delegates than Trump today.
Perhaps...in a parallel dimension.
Trump is already up 15 delegates on Cruz, and is winning Hawaii - a proportional state, by my research - handily with 27% of the vote in.
Cruz can only win the nomination if Rubio (and probably Kasich) drop out and let him compete one-on-one on March 15th. If Trump wins most of the March 15th states like this again, because they are almost all winner-take-all, the delegates Cruz needs ti catch up will be insurmountable. He could still get Trump into a contested convention, but not win outright.
it’s fun to post your wishful thinking, isn’t it?
Oh you betcha.
Post your numbers?
Not, but wishful thinking never hurts, except when reality sets in.
Lol. Surely you can’t be that much of a fool.
Put down that crack pipe boy!
Your crystal ball is cracked.
How so?
Right now, Trump got three out of the four states. He’s going to wind up with more delegates than Cruz, but not more delegates than Cruz+Kasich.
Starting March 15, with winner-take-all, Trump’s delegate lead will widen.
Cruz does not currently look like he will win. The most Cruz can do now is prevent Trump from getting a delegate majority, and thus throw the nomination to Romney in a brokered convention.
That's what 1 out of 4 does to a candidate - they fall further behind.
Survey says........
Nope.
Good impersonation of Steve Harvey though.
Cruz, with single exception of his home state, has yet to win a single big primary from a delegate and population heavy state, period.
If Trump wins next Tuesday big, taking Fl and Ohio and the remaining delegates break down proportionally the way they have through the rest of this race has gone Trump is up about 300 delegates with about 800 or so total.
Cruz strength seems to be in the low population western states, and winner take all or not that’s not going to get him to the nomination.
Time will tell, but Trump wins Next week like he did tonight, if or all practical purposes the fat lady will have sung.
It's that new "Cruz math." Been seeing a lot of that around here.
I guess a lot of voters had not yet heard about Cruz hiring Neil Bush and officially joining the GOPe.
3/15: FL 99 OH 66 NC (assume he gets half) 36 IL 69 Loses MO
Total: 668
March 22: Assume Cruz wins AZ and UT
April 5: WI 42
Total: 710
April 19: NY 95
Total: 805
April 26: CT 28 DE 16 MD 38 PA 71 RI 19
Total: 977
May 3: IN 57
Total: 1034
May 10: Cruz gets NE, Trump gets WV 34
Total: 1068
May 17: Split OR 14
Total: 1082
May 24: Split WA 22
Total: 1104
June 7: CA 172 NJ 51, loses MT, NM, and SD
Total: 1327 - wins nomination