[HockeyPop]

Scrivener’s error. Sorry. Meant to say “shorten the delegate gap”. The closer Cruz is to Trump in terms of delegate #s the stronger becomes his bargaining power and concomitantly the justification for a delegate changing to Cruz on the second ballot.

[johniegrad]

Thanks for clarifying.

[nhwingut]

The closer Cruz is to Trump in terms of delegate #s the stronger becomes his bargaining power and concomitantly the justification for a delegate changing to Cruz on the second ballot.

According to Nate Silver, even if Trump were to come up short, he is on pace to walk into the convention with the most votes in GOP history (20M), more than Romney (10M) & McCain (9M) combined - and, at minimum, 400 delegates ahead of Cruz.

Good luck giving it to Cruz.

As Trump said, Nice little convention you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.