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Even If He Wins Indiana, Trump Needs To Win California Primary
Breitbart.com ^ | May 3, 2016 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 05/03/2016 12:43:41 PM PDT by Biggirl

Even if Republican frontrunner Donald Trump wins the Indiana primary decisively on Tuesday, he will still likely need to win the June 7 California primary to reach the 1,237-delegate majority necessary to win the Republican presidential nomination outright.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; califprimary; gop; in; trump; trump2016
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To: stratboy

Touchback Trump has a certain cache, no?


41 posted on 05/03/2016 1:03:06 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Biggirl

Which seems highly likely.

Blah blah blah.

The table is set. We know who gets what for the most part.

Cruz is attempting to corral unforced delegates, which while normal, legal and comporting with the rules, is unwise. As Rush points out, there is infinite hell to pay if Trump arrives with the most votes and loses the nomination because he was out-worked.

So don’t do that. Arrive with the fewer delegates and make a deal for conservatism in exchange for unity.

Then, create wins until 2020 and bide your time. Cruz is young. If he helps Trump, he helps himself in the long run.


42 posted on 05/03/2016 1:03:17 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (All Hail!)
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To: conservative98

That is because the GOPe did not sic kamikazes like Cruz and Kasich on Romney in 2012.


43 posted on 05/03/2016 1:03:32 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Rashputin

Kasich is counting on the asteroid mailmen to put him over the top.


44 posted on 05/03/2016 1:03:54 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

I think Trump has Neptune. The latest Glenn Beck poll had Trump +19 on our furthest known planet.


45 posted on 05/03/2016 1:04:01 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Biggirl

Right now Trump is at 1002 delegates (including the unbound delegates in PA who say they will support him). He needs 235 more delegates. There are a total of 505 delegates left in the 10 remaining primaries. He could, in theory, lose all 57 delegates in Indiana, all 172 delegates in California, and all the 36 delegates in Nebraska as well, and still win. But, that would require that he win every delegate available in the other 7 primaries.

But, the latest polls I’ve seen has Trump leading in WV with 61 percent, he is leading in IN by about 10 points, and in California by over 20 points. I’m sure he’ll take NJ’s winner take all primary on June 7th.

Barring Trump dropping dead, or dropping out for some odd reason, he will have over 1237 delegates on the first ballot. There are still at least 50 unbound delegates, and I’m sure Trump and his people will go after them as well for a cushion in the delegate count.


46 posted on 05/03/2016 1:04:17 PM PDT by euram
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To: stratboy
According to Campaign records Ted. R. Cruz had 8 Million heading into Indiana in hard money.

His putting everything he had into a ground game , payroll and salaries Ted has to be running low on hard Cash. Ti make it for a month on hard cash will be extremely hard those Heidi letters for cash will e hard after tonight.

The Pac money money is down to three donors.

As much as Ted would hate it.

I think he won't go into debt to continue.

47 posted on 05/03/2016 1:04:38 PM PDT by scooby321 (o even lower)
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To: Biggirl
Even If He Wins Indiana, Trump Needs To Win California Primary

It was over after Wisconsin, then Indiana was going to be the end, now it's California. When it's obvious he's in command in California the headline will read "Even If He Wins California, Trump Needs To Win New Jersey Primary" and so on and so on.

48 posted on 05/03/2016 1:05:01 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: Rashputin
CA doesn't mean squat, Ted is the predicted winner in South Dakota and Trump doesn't have a prayer if he can't win in South Dakota.

Oh nonsense. Yes Cruz is expected to win South Dakota. But Trump is expected to still end up with about 1292 bound delegates guaranteeing him the nomination comfortably without any reliance on the unbound delegates...of which he has many pledged anyway.The question now is how much Trump will win by, not if he will win.

49 posted on 05/03/2016 1:05:13 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Cruz has been toast for several weeks. He’s nothing but burnt breadcrumbs now. Will Mitt, Jeb and the rest of the globalists give a little slack on the puppet strings and let Ted quit the race?


50 posted on 05/03/2016 1:05:16 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Biggirl

Yeh I don’t think that’s going to be a problem since he’s leading by a huge margin.


51 posted on 05/03/2016 1:06:07 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Vigilanteman

True. But Kasich is a mentally deranged sideshow. Anybody having any interaction with Trump supporters, and there are a ton of them, knows that they would prefer sh4tting their pants in church rather than vote for Kasich.


52 posted on 05/03/2016 1:06:21 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Biggirl

Is it too early to announce Cruz is politically dead, long live Cruz-or whatever? I started out supporting Cruz but soon became turned off. It is interesting as other people experienced the same thing. It is hard to put ones finger on the cause of ones reaction to his candidacy.


53 posted on 05/03/2016 1:06:49 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Biggirl

[Trump Needs To Win California Primary]

Now that trump has won California, he will still to win Nebraska.

Now that Trump has won Nebraska, he will still need to west Virginia

Now that Trump has won...etc ad nauseum.


54 posted on 05/03/2016 1:07:39 PM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Biggirl
"Even If He Wins Indiana, Trump Needs To Win California Primary..."

..... Not to mention if he becomes the Republican candidate he will then need to be able to garner enough electoral votes as well as battling electronic tampering, the Votes of the dead and Illegals to become the next President of the United States.

.... Not gonna be a cake walk ....

55 posted on 05/03/2016 1:09:32 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: conservative98
Romney had an 895 delegate count going into Indiana, however, the schedule was somewhat different than the 2016 primary schedule. SOURCE
56 posted on 05/03/2016 1:10:12 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: samtheman

It sure is...The elites care nothing for “the unwashed masses”...They are scared to death of Trump because he isn’t one of them and he looks to really help America and the people...This would hurt their cushy lifestyles....


57 posted on 05/03/2016 1:13:22 PM PDT by JBW1949
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To: RetSignman

Shoulda’ read the thread before posting vitually the thing as post #30.


58 posted on 05/03/2016 1:13:55 PM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Rennes Templar

You just summarized every Hugh Hewitt and Mark Levin show for the next few weeks.


59 posted on 05/03/2016 1:15:38 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Biggirl

Trump is way way way ahead in all the CA polls.
the race to watch there is Bernie ....


60 posted on 05/03/2016 1:16:28 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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