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:
Rnc doesn’t want their dirty little secrets in their corrupt little play house messed with!!!! Go get them power suckkers Trump!!!!
I firmly believe the establishment on both the left and right will put the screw job to Trump. Then the country will be in total chaos and give Obama an excuse to execute martial law and stay in office. My conspiracy theory for today.
Scum bagging r n c
Dropped endorement
Cruz losing endorsement
Do the convention and watch how pissed of people get. It will be the end of the Republican party.
Gop should really think hard about that, it would p**s me off enough to vote for Clinton beings the Rep. don;t give a$#%&!@* i think the voters would over whelming bash any rep for here to eternity, fucking politcal bull$#%&!@*is in the hand of a bunch of$#%&!@*tards……….
Don’t cut off your nose, despite your face!
Trump will prevail
No brokered convention because in April we will have the delegates to get the nomination. SUCKER!!!