Posted on 04/14/2016 3:17:26 PM PDT by drewh
A top Donald Trump adviser told House Republicans Thursday there's no need to worry about a contested Republican National Convention, promising to clinch the nomination outright in June.
In a private meeting on Capitol Hill, Trump aide Ed Brookover laid out a bullish road map for Trump to win by healthy margins in the upcoming primary states, starting in New York on Tuesday and concluding with a victory in California's June primary. Despite Trump's steep climb to win 1,237 delegates before the Cleveland convention, Brookover insisted a contested convention simply wouldn't happen and that Trump was on a "glide path" to the nomination. "The hard number is 1,237, and we think we're going to blow way past that," said Brookover, a long-time GOP political operative in Washington.
Rep. Chris Collins of New York, who is helping lead Trump's outreach on Capitol Hill, said the Trump campaign told lawmakers that the candidate would secure 85 of his state's 95 delegates on Tuesday. "That is conservative," Collins said of the Trump campaign's projections in his state. "We talked about 1,237, and I can tell you we got to 1,265 in a conservative way." Brookover added winning 1,265 delegates was possible but called it a "back-of-the-envelope" estimate. "We have to work hard, we have to talk to the voters, but I think the path, which has very few obstacles to us winning on the first ballot," Brookover said of the convention. The long and winding road to the Republican nomination
The meeting with roughly half dozen House Republicans who support Trump and one undecided member is the first of weekly sessions the campaign plans to hold with lawmakers, hoping to broaden its support on Capitol Hill as Trump tries to fend off Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
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1237 will happen because Ted is not enough of a strategic thinker to not do dumb stuff like this;
.Ted Cruz talks about watching hardcore porn with his daughters in the audience (at the family town hall) .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML6lpDP8c20
the quicker the primary is settled the quicker he can work on going after Hillary or (God forbid) the psycho communist
Trump is a deductive thinker - he begins with the goal and works back from there - no wasted motion - only what contributes to the result.— Bill Mitchell (REAL) (@mitchellvii) March 21, 2016
Guys like Cruz are inductive thinkers. They are so obsessed with the ideological front end, the actual result is an afterthought.— Bill Mitchell (REAL) (@mitchellvii) March 21, 2016
The quicker he wraps up the nomination, the quicker he can admit he supports all-out amnesty.
lol.
with Ted, we’ll just be killing another four years.
maybe trump can shake things up in a big way
Yep. Full socialism. None of this Obama dillydallying.
Cruz’s ads in N.Y. are STUPID! He goes after Mayor de Blasio, THE COMMIE, whom he is NOT running against. And no, he doesn’t talk about anything nor anyone other than de B., who most people in NYC, even Dems, HATE anyway.
Trump is NOT for SOCIALISM and never has been.
You might like post 5, what Bill Mitchell says is so true.
PA congress members say Trump will win PA. and that they think of Trump as presumptive nominee.
3:50 Minutes
Pa. lawmakers back Trump, expect more to join from Congress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_lZUeK77K8
Republican Reps. Lou Barletta and Tom Marino detail meeting with candidate
3:09 Minutes
Donald Trump Campaign Seeks Support On Capitol Hill - Cavuto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6YjoN3oCxg
Chris Collins, NY
No nick, that’s what twee Teddy wants and hundreds of thousands of new H-1Bers,to take the jobs that Americans should have.
Thanks for the head’s up and I agree with that post!
lol. wiseguy
I did the math about a week ago, right after WI:
I didn’t give Trump MT, SD, or NE. I think I gave him a couple of delegates from NM.
I gave him a conservative proportional number from NY, CT, RI, PA, NY, DE, MD, WV, OR, WA. I gave him six from ND-—the numbers have been 3-6-—and 140/172 in CA.
Without IN, I came to 1170. That means that with IN and any combination of a handful of delegates in any of those races, Trump gets to 1237.
In addition, I did not give him any Carson, Christie, or Virgin Islands un-pledged delegates (total about 30). Yeah. He gets there.
As Long As Trump stays healthy the battle for the nominee is as good as over the powers that be know this and are admitting it now. It’s time to move on to the destroy Hillary’s campaign phase of the operation.
I’m a strong Trump supporter but I really think there are many freepers who became very deeply vested in Ted Cruz.
I know because I was one of them last year.
I hope most of them will get with the program and start pushing against Hillary and Bernie as soon as they can recover from the transition.
Believe it or not I’m trying to temper my comments these days.
Those are nice female choochoos!
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