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.
if if’s and buts were candy and nuts we’d all have a Merry Christmas
Cruz may do to Trump what Reagan did to Ford in 1976. Depends on how well he does from this point on out.
Is your estimate a little low?
I thought I read Missouri gives 15 to the winner then starts to apportion. Actually I don’t know the rules but 538’s live blog was suggesting
Missouri
Trump - 42
Cruz - 5
Illinois
Trump - 60
Cruz - 9
If NC creeps up to 30 he’s up to over 240 on the night. However Missouri and Illinois really aren’t known just yet.
Trump is going to be annihilated by Hillary in November, but that is ok because he will bring down the entire rotten, corrupt GOPe-led Republican Party with him.
The Republican Party got corrupted a long time ago and is heading to the garbage heap of history where it belongs.
With the eligibility issue hanging over his head, we can be thankful that Cruz is a legal genius. If he is on the ticket as VP, he should be able to fight any of the DemonRAT efforts to disqualify him. I hope.
Not sure if trump wants to be anyone’s vp...
Yep - Cruz's only reason for staying in and not campaigning with/for trump is to act as a spoiler and hope to come out ahead at a brokered convention - too much like what Barbour and company did to Mississippi to re-seat Thad Cochran for my stomach to take. We will see what he's made of and whether he cares more about the People or about Ted Cruz in the next month...