I like your words - Cruz is irrelevant statistically.
This has been a charade of a primary election. The race is such a lopsided win for Trump that its ludicrous to suggest otherwise. We are stuck with a non-winner trying to steal delegates from a winner thats way out in front on so many levels and issues.
Team Cruz is good at weaseling wins in small caucus states known for their oddball vote counting methods and lack of exit polling.
Cruz won:
Virgin Islands by 30 votes
Wyoming by 480 votes
Alaska by 600 votes
Maine by 2,500.
Ted’s votes from his 9 wins.
Wyoming 620 people
Virgin Isl 200 people
Alaska... 8,400
Maine.... 8,500
Kansas. 35,000
Iowa.... 52,000
Utah.. 122,00
Okie. 158,000
He won eight states totaling 385,000 votes.
If it wasnt for Texas, hed have a pile of beans.
Teds lackluster Texas win, Texas 1,239,393.
Cruzs winning votes in nine states are 1,724,000.
Cruz won 9 states with 1,724,000 votes
Trump won 21 states, and nearly all the states were won by tens or hundreds of thousands of votes. The millions that have attended his rallies have voted.
Marianas (343).... Hawaii 6K
Vermont 20K.... Nevada 35K
Kentucky 83K.... N. H. 101K
Louisiana 125K.... Arkansas 133K
Mississipi 191K.... South Car 241K
Arizona 250K.... Mass. 311K
Tenn. 333K.... Virginia 356K
AlaBama. 372K.... Missouri 382K
N. Carol 458K.... Michig. 483K
Georgia 503K.... Illinois 557K
And FLorida 1,079,741
Trump won 21 states with 6,020,000 votes. He has a total of 7,897,990 votes and 755 delegates. Thats 290 more than Ted.
Cruzs only way to prevail now is by pure chicanery, just how he began this campaign. It is impossible now for him to have a clean delegate win.
You put the whole thing into perspective very clearly...thanks! Cruz really does have a lackluster candidacy...