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Trump Hits 1,237
Published in GeneralDonald Trump reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president Thursday, completing an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and set the stage for a bitter fall campaign.
The good news for Trump, reported by The Associated Press after a nationwide survey of unbound delegates, was tempered by continuing problems for his campaign. Those include the abrupt departure of Trump’s political director and continuing resistance by many Republican leaders to declare their support for his upstart candidacy.
Trump was put over the top in the AP delegate count by a small number of the party’s unbound delegates who told the AP they would support him at the national convention in July. Among them was Oklahoma GOP chairwoman Pam Pollard.
“I think he has touched a part of our electorate that doesn’t like where our country is,” Pollard said. “I have no problem supporting Mr. Trump.”
It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination. Trump has reached 1,238. With 303 delegates at stake in five state primaries on June 7, Trump will easily pad his total, avoiding a contested convention in Cleveland.
via bloomberg
Yeah, Bill Kristol would be that tone-deaf, wouldn’t he. Sometimes, one has to learn the hard way that the public doesn’t want any of his services any more.
will that be similar to the “told ya so”s that I have heard from those who predicted fifty times that Trump would never ever win the nomination?
I’m going to love revisiting this comment in about 10 years. Keep telling yourselves your feelings about this year’s election matter more than 160+ years of GOP history.
I was never in the group who said there was no way he’d get the nomination. I was in the group who
saidwarned he’s reflectively big government, that he’s not going to do anything meaningful about immigration, and that he’ll profoundly disappoint his primary supporters.Added: And he’ll be a heartbreak for anyone who was working to bring this country back toward its founding principals of liberty and limited government.
But Hugh Hewitt said that there would be a contested convention!
Well you can say “told ya so” if he disappoints me on immigration. But truth is I am so cynical at this point about illegal aliens that I expect to be disappointed by everyone…except Jeff Sessions…which is why I hold out hope for Trump.
Hugh who? (not to be confused with yooo hooo!).
He plays crowds like Clapton plays a Stratocaster.
Best one liner of the day
Is the point of an election to stick it to certain people? The goal in a presidential election should be to get a good president. I think Obama was a really bad president. I think Hillary and Bernie would make very bad presidents. None of that absolves Republicans of the responsibility of offering the voters a decent nominee. I just don’t see that Trump has it in him to be a good president. I wish that wasn’t true, since it means were going to get a bad president, but it’s the truth.
Reagan was the President for people who grew up on Casablanca and Mr Smith goes to Washington. He had old school Hollywood media magic. He could walk on stage and look like a President right out of Central Casting.
I think we are seeing the Reality Television era come into play. It is not pretty, or classy but if it gets out the voters to stop Progressive crap, I can deal with it.
I cannot wait for “You Are Fired!” show for people above GS14.
I predict that Trump will do very little about the ‘progressive crap’.
Congrats, Michael, you deserve it for your perseverance.
Then I shall be disappointed.
And yet he still picked the GOP despite one of their darkest hours, what a guy!
Screen shot me too! WOOO HOOOO!
Mitt Romney who got squashed by Candy The Terminator Crowley. Let us tremble.
And what’s wrong with a party that actually gives a damn about American workers. The Democrats, for all their platitudes about working people, have become the party of bums, bastards, and bureaucrats.