Excellent point.
Continuing the Trump bash-athon, Cruz/s campaign mgr said candidates who can’t win 50% should drop out......meaning Trump.
But Cruz barely squeaked out a pitiful 43% in his home state of Texas....that got Donald a bunch of Texas delegates (if tricky Cruz doesn’t steal them).
Watching and waiting for loser Cruz to drop out....and it can/t be soon enough.
Apple’s to oranges. There were more people in the race at the time.
Rubio would take a few percentage points from trump in NY if he was still in.
How many candidates were on the ballot in Texas? 12 or something like that. The early primaries in the south had a lot of voter dilution in that segment that no longer exists.
Cruz got 43% in TX with a much larger field.
Trump getting a bit over 50% in NY with only 3 candidates in the race is no big deal in comparing the two scenarios.
All these Cruz basher’s forget that it more important to get votes by congressional district, not just in populated metropolitan areas. If Trumps gets big vote totals out of NYC, but not in the rest of upstate, he won’t get the delegates and votes won’t mean squat. Same as Cruz in Texas, but the opposite. Trump took liberal areas, but Cruz took the rest.