It’s often been said, in elections, it always comes down to Florida and Ohio.
Usually, this saying is reserved for the general election, as both swing states are key to surpassing the number of electoral votes needed to secure the presidency. This year, however, the drama in Ohio and Florida are coming a lot earlier.
Donald Trump may have more delegates than any other candidate in the race so far, but he’s yet to secure the majority needed in order to secure the nomination outright. Looking forward, two states stand in his way, Ohio and Florida, which just happen to be the homes of Governor John Kasich and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, repectively.
Should he lose those states, as he did in Ted Cruz’s home state of Texas, the math becomes incredibly difficult for Trump. In order to secure the 1,237 delegates necessary to win on the first ballot of the convention, he would have to win about 70% of the remaining delegates.
Considering he hasn’t yet come close to that number, should he lose both states this Tuesday, a brokered convention is all but guaranteed.
This hasn’t been lost on party officials, who see a brokered convention as the last, best hope for stopping Trump from getting the nomination. See what they can do to snatch the nomination from Trump on the next page:
I am sure they won’t care but I will leave the Republican Party if there are any shenanigans against Trump!
Evil on both sides Gop & Dem afraid of losing power they are the ones that have been giving Obama everything he wanted & wants
Democrats are fighting dirty turning American to fight with each other to win votes how low can they be. Why would any person want to be a president for these kind of people these people are as low as scum I myself would never would try to straighten out the United States after what Obama did to this country I not know we’re to start the United States is crazy with all kinds of people for other country’s it don’t feel like the United States anymore its so so sad I really feel bad for the American children and what there live is going to be like. God bless America. I sure hope Donald Trump becomes the president and I pray to God that he can do some good for this country that it once was.amen
get rid of electorial and go all ballot votes
Just Google George soros and see what he has done or helped do to other countries!!!!
That is horrible!! Donald Trump deserves that nomination. We the people want him as president!
Obama is still hoping this election goes out of control, causing a race war & party war… he’ll sign martial law, stopping the election and remaining president indefinitely.
DON’T TAKE THE BAIT!!
Duck trump!
just try it rnc and watch what will happen, you will split the party, and loose
That will be a huge mistake