If no candidate gets to the magical threshold of 1237 party delegates,the Republican national conference would become very messy indeed – and insiders can’t even agree on how it would play outDonald Trump hopes to make a decisive move towards the 1237 delegates he needs to lock up the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, when Florida, or Illinois,Missouri, North Carolina, or Ohio and the Northern Mariana Islands all vote,with a total of 367 delegates up for grabs as the contest moves to a winner-takes-all phase in many states.
Texas senator Ted Cruz is attempting to encourage Republicans to rally round him as the “quit Trump” candidate. But increasingly the GOP establishment have been floating the view of preventing the current York businessman from winning the nomination not at the poll box but in a “contested conference”, which would bring another candidate – Florida senator Marco Rubio, and Ohio governor John Kasich and 2012 GOP duo Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have all been floated – in over the heads of the voters at the party’s July conference.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com