GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is on track to reach the Republican National Convention in July with a score of delegates only 74 shy of the 1,237 delegate majority, according to a new calculation.
If you are Donald J. Trump, you are not very excited about the idea of a “brokered convention.” Aside from falling short of the delegates needed to win the Republican nomination for president outright, the way delegates are chosen, and the nomination process itself, are not ideal for someone running an outsider assault on the party.
Establishment advocates of the brokered convention seem to assume Trump’s voters, and most of Cruz’s, are either hypnotized members of a personality cult, or brats throwing a tantrum who will come to their senses when it’s time to rally against Hillary Clinton… much as the Sanders kids are glumly trooping back into Clinton’s tent, as the Bern is not felt. The Republican Party has nowhere near the credibility with its voters, or ability to buy votes by handing out government lollipops, needed for such a consolidation to occur.
Ted Cruz is looking to Texas to re-launch his campaign, as early voting in the candidate’s delegate-rich home state has already logged 500,000 votes.
The Des Moines Register reports on a confirmed instance of a Bernie Sanders delegate getting switched to Hillary Clinton by the Iowa Democratic Party, a move that was made without notifying the relevant precinct chairman.
If I were Carly Fiorina, I would march down to St. Anselm’s College Institute of Politics in Manchester, New Hampshire on Saturday night, storm right onto that stage, and demand I be given a podium at the GOP Debate.
A new Field Poll released Tuesday shows that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and businessman Donald Trump lead among Republican primary voters in California by a wide margin, with Cruz at 25% and Trump at 23%, a statistical tie.
Declaring delegates “is really [a way] to say you have supporters in the state,” said Reed Phillips, the political director for the Alabama GOP. It shows “you have people in Alabama that are saying, ‘I like Ben Carson or I like Ted Cruz, I want to say I’m a supporter of this candidate, I want to represent the people of Alabama [by] saying I want this candidate to be our nominee,’” he tells Breitbart News.
