Washington Times: Trump will be 74 delegates short of nomination threshold

[midnight rambler]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/9/donald-trump-storm-convention-just-shy-delegate-th/

[Glass]

I think they will do one of those convention rule change things.

I remember watching a video of people in a school gym or maybe it was a stadium and there was a sudden vote by show of hands. And then there was an uproar as the vote was ignored or deliberately mis counted. I think it was the Ron Paul moment last election.

I think they will do it and to hell with the consequences.

[collector]

If they try to steal the nomination from Trump - he should go Independent

[midnight rambler]

If they try to steal the nomination from Trump - he should go Independent

Too late.

[collector]

Too late for him to get on the ballot as an independent? What about representing the Constitution Party or Libertarian Party where they already have ballot access?

[Cebu_4_2]

Independant means zero electoral votes = total fail. Trump wants to win = no bullshit.

[JohnQPublic]

Here is a projection for Trump vs. Cruz. The winner-take-all-states could skew this, but perhaps not as much as you would think.

Per politico ( http://www.politico.com/2016-electio...-count-tracker (http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/delegate-count-tracker) )

1042 delegates have been awarded; Trump has 458 (44.0%), Cruz 359 (34.5%), 1435 delegates remaining. 2477 total. 1237 NEEDED.

If the votes were to continue on this trajectory (Rubio and Kasich stay in and maintain their trajectory), then:

Trump will have 458+639 = 1097 delegates (NEED 140, or 26.9% of available)
Cruz will have 359 + 501= 860 delegates. (NEED 377, 72.5% of available or )

out of 520 non-Cruz-Trump delegates (available per this projection)

[Twisted Titan]

I would continue to go every state to lock up every vote.

[vacuum]

So far he's pretty much on track I would say.

We will know everything we need to know on Tuesday though.