[TexasFreeper2009]

delegates needed to win nomination 1236
winner take all states: pledged delegates
south carolina 50
Florida 99
illinois 69
missouri 49
ohio 66
arizona 58
wisconsin 42
delaware 16
maryland 38
pennsylvania 71
indiana 54
nebraska 36
california 169
montana 27
new jersey 51
south dakota 26

Proportional states with 20% threshold
Georgia 76
Texas 152
Vermont 13
Tennessee 55
Louisiana 43
Puerto Rico 23
Idaho 32
New York 92
Washington 41

Total delegates Trump guaranteed 1448
Total needed to win 1236

I am not sure how a brokered convention happens.

[Thibodeaux]

possible doesn’t matter

writing crap to earn your daily bread is the force at work in this article

drivel pays as well as wisdom among the presstitutes

[TexasFreeper2009]

Just in case people dont understand what a proportional state is that has a threshold, such as the ones that I listed that have a 20% threshold.

No candidate that gets less than 20% of the vote gets ANY delegates

So if Trump gets more than 20% and no one else gets above 20% in a 20% threshold state. Trump gets ALL the delegates just as if it were a winner take all state.

[SJackson]

Don’t forget there are also around 400 or so uncommitted and unelected delegates chosen by the state parties. No first ballot majority, it’s wide open. Negotiated rather than brokered convention would probably be a better term. I don’t think many of the elected delegates will be for candidates over which the RNC has great sway. The top two or three will likely have to work it out amongst themselves.