Trump currently has about 1,053 delegates of the 1,237 he needs to win the nomination outright. Republicans are still scheduled to vote in primary elections in California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, Washington, Oregon, West Virginia and Nebraska between now and June 7 – for a total of 445 delegates yet to be allocated.
It is nearly impossible to imagine that Trump will not get the 184 additional delegates he needs to win the nomination on the first ballot at the Convention given he is the only candidate in the race. In California alone he is almost guaranteed to get all the 172 delegates available – delegates in California are allocated based on whoever wins a plurality of the vote, and although there will be other candidates on the ballot, it is unlikely an anti-Trump protest vote could amass the votes sufficient to deny him even a single delegate. With California’s delegation almost certainly in his pocket, he only need to pick up 12 delegates in the other remaining eight primaries to get to the magic 1,237 number. In addition to the now near certainty that Trump will get the delegates he needs to win on the first ballot at the Convention, Trump is helped by the fact he is now the “presumptive nominee,” which means his campaign will take a central role in planning the RNC Convention. That doesn’t mean he will completely control what happens at the Convention – but he will have a definite say in how things are run – making it that much harder for anyone opposing him to gain traction at the Convention.
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