[Nifster]

Kasich is not getting out

[Jeff Head]

Despite the OH loss to Kasich, and the two close races with Cruz in Missouri and NC, this was a huge night for Trump.

I show him winning 207 delegates on the night. Cruz will pick up about 80, and Kasich about 74.

At this stage, Trump has over a 200 delegate lead. With all the winner take all states coming up, I expect he is going to get to the magic number before the convention...but it may take him until June 7th now.

IMHO, Cruz has no path to an out right win now. The best he could do would be to win enough to deny the total math to Trump, and at this stage I feel that is a very outside chance in any case.

The absolute best Cruz should do now for the GOP and for the country would be to throw in with Trump as his VP.

At this stage, that would be my suggestion.

Sometime in April, make the deal for a Trump/Cruz ticket.

That would result in an absolute slam dunk against the GOPe, a slam dunk in numbers of delegates going into the convention, allow Trump to be in charge of the party rules, and unite the party for the general election against Hillary.

[ghosthost]

close second doesn’t mean much. It means he’ll be a trivia question someday, and no one will get him right

[Hugin]

And if frogs had wings...

[Lopeover]

Heard the Mitch wants Ted to apologize before he will throw his weight behind him. Sure will be sad if Ted does.

[Vince Ferrer]

In order to do the delegate math, we also have to get a good idea of how much money Cruz has left. Trump funds his own campaign, but Cruz needs funding. He did not come if first tonight anywhere, and that should hurt his fundraising ability. On the other hand, if this doesn’t hurt his fundraising, then he is in deep with the GOPe as a placeholder for Romney.

[DouglasKC]

could of would of should of. Cruz should invent a time machine so he can get those victories he’s so sure would be his.

[mabelkitty]

Impossible.
He doesn’t win East Coast and he doesn’t win West of the MS.
He gets Utah.

[abigkahuna]

Trump just took MO with 100 percent of the precints reporting a bare maority of some 1600 votes. Chalk up another win for Trump tonight 5 out of six.

[Charles Henrickson]

The delegate numbers get very close between Cruz and Trump if Rubio and Kasich were to send their delegates to Cruz.

That's the thing. The combined Not-Trump delegates could give the edge to Cruz at the convention. Let's hope.

[Sun]

“..with Cruz only a quarter point behind Trump ..”

What a nail biter!

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

2D,
Can we agree that Cruz/Trump are proof that the people have rejected RINO establishmentarianism? Now.. What happens if they destroy each other? I hope Cruz has the sense to know when to quit.

[grey_whiskers]

The CRUZ Campaign:

Guess what happens next!

[truth_seeker]

If only

[grey_whiskers]

"Cruz Very Close to Frontrunner Trump if Others Exit While Clinton Out in Front"

"If we had some bacon, then we could have bacon and eggs, if we had any eggs."

CRUZ 2016

[stocksthatgoup]

Once again tortured logic

[stratboy]

Some pundits are likely to point out that if Rubio pulled out before today's primaries and if Kasich was no longer in the race, Cruz would have won every one of the Republican primaries. Had only Rubio pulled out, and if all of Rubio's voters voted instead for Cruz, the Texas senator would have still won Illinois and North Carolina, and come within two points of Trump in Illinois and within one point of Trump in Florida.

It really amazes me how stupid these pundits/experts are. In what world would every vote for Rubio go to Cruz? Could he get a bigger percentage of Rubio votes than Trump? Maybe? But every single vote? No Way. These people are supposed to be bright and astute. And what is even more frustrating is that some people here on FR run with this ridiculous talking point,