Trump Only Needs 53% of Remaining Delegates to Win – In a Week He’ll Need Less than 50% and Cruz Will Be Mathematically Finished
Also posted at www.thegatewaypundit.com on April 20, 2016 by Jim Hoft
On Tuesday Donald Trump won New York with over 60% of the votes giving him a comfortable lead over Senator Ted Cruz in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination. Trump walked away with 89 of the 95 delegates and nearly half a million votes. Senator Cruz unfortunately won no delegates after winning only 15% of the vote.
As of today Trump only needs 53% of the remaining delegates to win the nomination. Unfortunately for Cruz next week there are five more primaries out East and Donald Trump is the heavy favorite in these states. As reported previously Cruz will be mathematically eliminated from obtaining enough delegates to win the election outright by next Tuesday, April 26th. On the other hand, with conservative estimates, Trump will need less than 50% of the remaining delegates after next week to win the election.
In recent weeks many Cruz supporters have reported that Cruz was on a roll. In an article titled “This is the week that Ted Cruz won the Republican nomination”, Redstate cheered –
- “Cruz was finally given his chance to go toe to toe with Trump”
- “Cruz domination”
- “Trump needs 65% of the remaining delegates to get to 1237.”
- “Should Cruz keep Trump under 50% in New York, and force a split of New York’s delegates, and have Kasich and Cruz both be over 20%, the split in delegates may be something like: 54 Trump, 11 Kasich, 30 Cruz. Then Trump’s hill will become steep to the point of impossible.”
It now looks like this was all biased and hopeful expectations.