Donald Trump now has a total of 1,238 delegates, one more than the 1,237 necessary to win the nomination. He will certainly get more, since he is the only candidate still running, and there are still some primaries to go. But he is now the Republican candidate for president.
Now that the Republican race is over, we can take stock. I’d like to hear from those of you who were Trump supporters from the beginning, party loyalists, grudging he’s-better-than-Hillary voters, and #NeverTrump conservatives.
I’d also like to hear from Democrats, both those of you who support Hillary Clinton and those of you who support Bernie Sanders.
Some think Trump’s nomination means an easy victory for the Democrats. Others think the Democrats underestimate him–as the other Republican candidates did–at their peril and that Clinton will be no match for him. Some Republicans say that they are worried about about two potential outcomes: if Trump loses, and if he wins.
What do you think?
From Donald Trump Clinches Republican Party Nomination : NPR:
Donald Trump now has the support of 1,238 delegates — just a hair above the 1,237 threshold needed to clinch the Republican presidential nomination, according to The Associated Press.
Trump was able to reach that number Thursday after 29 unbound Republican delegates told the AP that they would support him at the party’s July convention. Fifteen of those unbound delegates came from North Dakota, seven from Pennsylvania, two each from West Virginia and Nevada and one each from Colorado, New Hampshire and Oklahoma (the unbound delegate who announced her support for Trump in this state is GOP chairwoman Pam Pollard).
Most Republican delegates are bound by the results of their states’ presidential primary elections but as many as 200 are not bound by those rules.
Five states including California vote on June 7 with more than 300 delegates at stake. As the sole candidate left running on the GOP side, Trump will easily add to his slim delegate edge on that day.
Trump is now the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee; he won’t be the official nominee until the July convention in Cleveland when delegates vote. But Trump reaching the magic number caps the businessman’s unlikely presidential run and rise and avoids further talk of a possible contested GOP convention.
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