Posted on 04/07/2016 4:33:06 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 04/07/2016 4:48:52 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
According to Politico's delegate counter (http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/delegate-count-tracker) there are 882 delegates left.
If this s true, here is the delegate math to elimination:
Cruz currently has 517 delegates so he needs to win 720 more (81.6%) of the remaining delegates to reach the 1237 magic number. So Cruz can only afford to lose a maximum of 162 delegates or he is mathematically eliminated.
Trump currently has 743 delegates so he needs to win 494 more (56%) of the remaining delegates to reach the 1237 magic number. So Trump can afford to lose up to 388 delegates without being mathematically eliminated.
Fact Cruz has lost delegates at a much higher rate than Trump throughout this primary.
It appears to me that Cruz is more than twice as likely as Trump to be mathematically eliminated.
And once everyone is eliminated we will have no nominee? If only there were some kind of process...
Dont want Rubio as VP. Sad to see rubio destroyed by schumer.
Rubio needs to be rehabbed somewhere where he can be watched, like dept of the interior...
this is like people wishing that you’ve made a home run when you get to 3rd base.
LOL, politely said.
He's definitely deep in... something...
Exactly
Who do you think delegates are? Where do they come from? How are they chosen?
What you are suggesting is that delegates are somehow outside of the political process and that it is somehow unethical for candidates to have personal relationships with them.
I just don't understand your thought process.
The idea is that people from all over the differrent states, who work with and for the party in all kinds of ways over years may eventually become delegates to distric conventions. Then maybe state conventions. Then maybe they will be selected to go to the national convention.
The idea that a presidential candidate actually knowing who delegates are is not unethical. A smart one, like Cruz and every other candidate who isn't a novice tries to get people he likes and who like him selected to be delegates.
Cruz aint dead. He is against the GOPe as is Trump.
Trump alone will be destroyed by the GOPe. They will appeal to his vanity to do him in.
No single human is our savior .
Precisely. Cruz is acting like a petulant child
Julius Ceasar was setup as the sole savior to the roman republic.
Brutus Cassius and Augustus had other ideas.
Trump should team play with Cruz.
“How is Trump going to convince “little Marco” to go with him?”
Trump/Rubio gives the GOP the best chance to win Florida. Cruz/Anybody does not win Florida. Don’t let anybody tell you Cruz can take FL, his brand just does not sell here.
If you don’t win Florida, you don’t win.
No apology necessary. It’s rough and tumble.
I think any objectively fair rules committee would have representation from all candidates who won delegates. Proportionally would make sense. And probably some slots just for party higher ups.
I would be surprised if that was not the process.
It is very irritating to have someone who is supporting the consummate poor loser, lecture me on what my candidate can’t do, when their candidate with 250 less delegates can’t grasp what he can’t do.
Get your own house in order.
Ted is risking the best chance we have had to rid ourselves of the GOPe king makers.
Wake up!
Proportional?
Try trump and cruz.
In this thread Jim is talking about being mathematically eliminated from reaching 1237 BEFORE going into the convention. That happens as soon as the number a candidate needs to reach 1237 exceeds the remaining delegates available. It already happened to Kasich quite a while ago and it will happen to Cruz twelve days from now.
It may happen to Trump too, but not until June.
I don’t want anyone with as bad a character as Cruz has exhibited, to be anyone where power.
Not no. Hell NO!
How many years are you willing to live under the rule of the left while you struggle to take control of the levers of power in the GOP?
And what is to prevent the new people put into place from developing the same habits?
How right you are!
But there is certainly a man for out time.
Trump is emerging as the Churchill of our times. The Chamberlains of the entire west make excuses and demonize the self evident.
Thank you. As I am not even familiar with the 112 Committee, I’ll leave the call to you.
Take are. I appreciate your patience.
When I get worked up, I’m not real subtle.
No, not exactly, because Jim has also stated that Cruz should drop out and concede the race since he is “mathematically eliminated.”
Have a good night. I need to pack it in, too.
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