Donald Trump Clinches Nomination with 1,238 Delegates


Trump is the Republican candidate for president, securing the nomination with 1,238 delegates on Thursday, May 26, 2016.  Whether one is a HUGE fan or person who cannot stand the idea of Trump as president, this is indeed an “only in America” moment.

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.

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.”
The left hates Trump, the Bern-outs demonstrate like violent anarchists outside his events. The establishment on the right is scared to death over his nomination.  Yet, his form of campaigning, shooting from the hip, telling it like it is, without the politically correct police bleeping out what so many in America think, has paved the way for him to go head-to-head with Hillary, or perhaps Bernie, over the next few months.

Trump, a political neophyte who for years delivered caustic commentary on the state of the nation from the sidelines but had never run for office, fought off 16 other Republican contenders in an often ugly primary race.

Many on the right have been slow to warm to Trump, wary of his conservative bona fides. Others worry about his crass personality and the lewd comments he’s made about women.

But millions of grass-roots activists, many of them outsiders to the political process, have embraced him as a plain-speaking populist.

Steve House, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party and an unbound delegate who confirmed his support of Trump to the AP, said he likes the billionaire’s background as a businessman.

“Leadership is leadership,” House said. “If he can surround himself with the political talent, I think he will be fine.”

There are still those in the GOP establishment, like Bill Kristol, who are talking about a third party independent candidate and have suggested that Mitt Romney is a possible choice, but at this point in the game, it is a foolish grasping at a straw candidate who will only destroy the chance we have to keep American out of Hillary’s hands.

Source: Big Story
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  2. LeRoy Tulenchik

    And killary, is a anti-American communist muslim loving whore.

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  3. Lisa Marshall

    I’m voting for TRUMP
    So is a lot of people.
    Go TRUMP!

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  4. Pamela Bonds

    He may not have been my first choice, but now he is the ONLY choice to beat the dems.

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  5. Kevin Rattray

    And so the reputaition of the USA is in the gutter.

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  6. Anonymous

    i m with trump

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