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(43,236 posts)The Republican primaries are frontloaded with red states, none of which are remotely likely to pass legislation requiring a candidate to make their tax returns public as a condition of getting on the primary ballot. Trump needed 1237 delegates to get the Republican nomination -- he won 1725 and had the nomination wrapped up before the California primary even was held. His nearest competitor in terms of delegates had 484.
There simply aren't enough delegates in states that might pass such legislation to deny him the nomination and certainly no chance any other candidate gets anywhere near a majority. Even in the highly unlikely event that Trump fell short of a majority because he couldn't get delegates from a few states (and assuming further that the republican party in those states doesn't switch from a primary to a caucus or state convention to get around the ballot issue), Trump will come to the convention with far more delegates than the other candidates and after the first ballot, those delegates will simply support Trump.