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May 10 Primaries Results
Via the WSJ, Donald Trump picked up 67 delegates last night. Thirty-one of those came from West Virginia, where he won 77 percent of the vote, and 36 came from Nebraska, where Trump won 61.4 percent. Also, in West Virginia, Senator Bernie Sanders trounced Hillary Clinton, 51.4 to 36 percent, earning 16 delegates to her 11. (Clinton won the Democrats’ Nebraska Caucus back in March).
Trump now has 1,135 delegates, 102 short of a majority. Even if he wins every delegate from the Washington State and Oregon primaries later this month, he won’t be able to cinch the nomination until June 7 — the final day of the primaries — when California, Montana, New Mexico, New Jersey, and South Dakota head to the polls. In theory, Clinton could wrap-up her nomination with the June 5 Puerto Rican Primary, but will likely not be able to do so until June 7.
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I am disappointed that we don’t hear more in the mainstream media or even here on Ricochet about this divide on the left where Bernie keeps racking up wins, but super delegates have their thumb on the scale for Clinton.
Imagine if Republicans had these super delegates and they all went for Cruz, Rubio, or Bush while Trump was winning the popular vote and states. The media would be screaming from every corner, yet not a peep about the Democrats.
I know a lot of us are in the dumps about the Republican race, but there is still fireworks on the left.
Ben Sasse, senator from a 60%+ Trump state.
I think Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Rick Perry, and Scott Walker are the only presidential candidates from non-Trump states and that includes all of the Democrat Party nominees along John McCain and with Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts. Romney apparently now votes in anti-Trump Utah.
Hey Brent, did you hear about that deal with the Democrats where Bernie keeps racking up wins, but the super delegates have their thumb on the scale for Clinton? Some real fireworks going on over there.
Happy now? ;-)
Thanks Spin. Much better.
July should be interesting.
Yes, I know the circumstances, but I find it fascinating that a man who is running unopposed still manages to get only 61.4 percent.
This is the key. If that 38.6% is mostly due to early voting, Sasse should be worried. If it’s mostly day-of voting, Sasse should rest easy: his decision to go full-on anti-Trump will look great in 4 years. This is true even if Trump wins in November: Sasse will have 4 years to turn his anti-Trump primary stance to a “support him when he’s right, oppose him when he’s wrong” stance.
Bernie supporters are digging up more and more instances of Clinton corruption. The “blow it all up” voters are considering Trump, the principled lefties are depressed.
The left is openly discussing the split among themselves, its the MSM that is ignoring it. Just take a listen to The Young Turks.
I enjoy listening to the progressive left complain about media bias. It’s delicious.
Anyone who thinks Hillary is a good candidate should spend a day or two listening to the progressive left talk to themselves. They have never been as right as they are now about their analysis of the electorate. Then take a shower.
Trump has roughly the same share of the electorate as Romney and McCain did when they clinched, and more total votes. He even beats McCain by a few percentage points.
And he did that with 17 candidates.
The Party wants Trump.
Thank you for pointing that out. We would all do well to try to be as fair as possible to the realities of the voting booth.
I have been on a personal mission to get conservatives to accept realities, even if they are boorish and orange. We do ourselves no favors by substituting our preferences for facts.
I’ve got something short coming out later today on it.
I have read and heard a large number of critical discussions about the democrat super delegates system. It was developed by party insiders to prevent upstarts that can’t win a general election from gaining the nomination. If the GOP had the same system Jeb Bush would be our nominee. Because every time he lost a state he would win lots of extra delegates compared to the winners of each state. Like Hillary has.
More likely, yes. Certain, no.