Trump Has A Serious Problem With Unbound Delegates
Trump Has A Serious Problem With Unbound Delegates
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BY: HANK BERRIEN
APRIL 25, 2016
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Among the unbound delegates already named who are headed for the GOP convention in Cleveland, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is dominating, according to TIME.
TIME reports that of the 63 delegates, 26 either totally support Cruz, lean toward him or simply will not support Trump. The only delegate supporting Trump comes from North Dakota. Even Trump’s local campaign chair from American Samoa would not commit to voting for Trump. Fifteen delegates would not tell TIME which candidate they supported; 15 more could not be contacted by TIME. Five unbound delegates from the Virgin Islands do not know if they will be eligible to vote at the GOP convention, as Virgin Islands’ Republican Party chair, John Canegata, is trying to replace them.
Of the 2,472 delegates at the convention, roughly 5% will be unbound; the actual number cannot be determined as yet because the primary season has not been completed and some will not be known until the first ballot has been taken at the convention.
Trump has boasted, “If we’re 20 votes short or if we’re 100 short and we’re at 1,100 and somebody else is at 500 or 400, because we’re way ahead of everybody, I don’t think you can say that we don’t get it automatically.” He threatened “riots” if he was leading in delegates and wasn’t handed the nomination. But last Thursday, a senior RNC official quashed Trump’s claim, asserting, “If you have 1,237 bound delegates, you are the presumptive nominee—that’s it. If you’re short, nope.”
Colorado, North Dakota, Louisiana, Guam, the Virgin Islands and American Samoa have all named unbound delegates; Pennsylvania will add 54 more on Tuesday. Trump needs roughly 60% of all remaining delegates to win the nomination on the first ballot with bound delegates.
On Saturday, Cruz picked up 19 of 20 delegates at the Maine GOP convention.
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