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29th May 2012, 06:23 PM
With Texas win, Romney secures delegates to win nomination
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120529_romney_4x3.photoblog500.jpgJustin Sullivan / Getty Images
Mitt Romney walks to an awaiting car after walking off of his campaign plane at McCarran International Airport on May 29, 2012 in Las Vegas.
By msnbc.com staff
NBC News projected Mitt Romney to be the victor of Republican primary in Texas; a win that puts him over the 1144 delegate-threshold needed to win his party's presidential nomination. He won’t earn the official nod until August's Republican National Convention in Tampa.
The race for the Republican nomination has been largely over since the April 3 primary in Wisconsin. Romney's win in that contest prompted the eventual withdrawals of his remaining rivals: Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul. It also hastened the onset of President Barack Obama's own re-election offensive versus Romney.
While conservatives appear to have rallied behind the former Massachusetts governor, the long campaign season was not without its consequences for Romney.
The Republican has been fundraising aggressively, for instance, to make up for money spent during the nomination battle, which depleted, in part, his relative financial parity versus Obama.
But more significantly, the Obama campaign has been turning some of the most stinging attacks on Romney from other Republicans and revived them for use in the general election. Case-in-point: the Obama campaign has spent much of the past two weeks attacking Romney's experience at Bain Capital, the private equity firm Romney had co-founded. That is a line of attack first advanced by Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry in January.
Romney's continued advantage versus Obama, though, lies with an economic recovery that still rests on precarious footing. May's NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that half of Americans judged last month's jobs report as unsatisfactory. That dampened optimism for a recovery -- and, in turn, for Obama -- could become a potent political weapon for Romney, especially if continued economic unrest in Europe slows the pace of the recovery in the U.S.
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120529_romney_4x3.photoblog500.jpgJustin Sullivan / Getty Images
Mitt Romney walks to an awaiting car after walking off of his campaign plane at McCarran International Airport on May 29, 2012 in Las Vegas.
By msnbc.com staff
NBC News projected Mitt Romney to be the victor of Republican primary in Texas; a win that puts him over the 1144 delegate-threshold needed to win his party's presidential nomination. He won’t earn the official nod until August's Republican National Convention in Tampa.
The race for the Republican nomination has been largely over since the April 3 primary in Wisconsin. Romney's win in that contest prompted the eventual withdrawals of his remaining rivals: Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul. It also hastened the onset of President Barack Obama's own re-election offensive versus Romney.
While conservatives appear to have rallied behind the former Massachusetts governor, the long campaign season was not without its consequences for Romney.
The Republican has been fundraising aggressively, for instance, to make up for money spent during the nomination battle, which depleted, in part, his relative financial parity versus Obama.
But more significantly, the Obama campaign has been turning some of the most stinging attacks on Romney from other Republicans and revived them for use in the general election. Case-in-point: the Obama campaign has spent much of the past two weeks attacking Romney's experience at Bain Capital, the private equity firm Romney had co-founded. That is a line of attack first advanced by Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry in January.
Romney's continued advantage versus Obama, though, lies with an economic recovery that still rests on precarious footing. May's NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that half of Americans judged last month's jobs report as unsatisfactory. That dampened optimism for a recovery -- and, in turn, for Obama -- could become a potent political weapon for Romney, especially if continued economic unrest in Europe slows the pace of the recovery in the U.S.