It Will Be Donald Trump Or Ted Cruz At The GOP Convention
Wednesday Senator Ted Cruz woke up to a discomfiting reality, as he needs about 80% of remaining delegates to win the Republican Presidential nomination.
Even cutting into Donald Trump’s large lead in the primary is a stretch as surveys show him ahead in the 3 most delegate-rich states yet to vote: New York, Pennsylvania, and California.
David Wasserman, an election analyst at the Cook Political Report, said Sen. Cruz’s victory bodes “well for him in Indiana, South Dakota, Nebraska, and other more culturally conservative states that have yet to vote.”
Ted Cruz has pulled into a statistical dead heat with front-runner Donald Trump, a new Reuters/Ipsos national poll shows.
Ted Cruz received 35.2% of support to Donald Trump’s 39.5%, the poll of 568 Republicans taken on 1-5 April 1-5. The numbers put the 2 within the poll’s 4.8 percentage-point credibility interval, a measure of accuracy.
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz were also briefly in a dead heat on 28 March.
Either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz will be the Republican Presidential nominee, says former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who laughed at the idea of a contested convention where someone such as current Speaker Paul Ryan would be drafted.
Appearing Tuesday on TV following Sen. Cruz’s victory in Wisconsin, Mr. Gingrich said Donald Trump and Cruz will enter the convention with 80% of the delegates, and have no incentive to change a current rule that requires someone to have won the most votes in at least 8 states to secure the nomination.
Why, he asked, would they “give it to some nice person who did not run, did not raise money, did not debate, did not win delegates but what the heck? ‘He’s really,’ or ‘she’s really, a terrific person.’ I mean, even in a novel you could not get away with this.”
Though Donald Trump and Sen. Cruz supporters are vitriolic toward the other candidate today, they will come together after the nomination, Mr. Gingrich said.
“As long as it is Trump or Cruz, we’ll reunite because, frankly, both the Trump people and the Cruz people e-Mail me or Tweet me and say they dislike Washington a heck of a lot more than they dislike the other guy.”
Ted Cruz cannot whine his way to victory. He is a whiner…
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