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AnnetteJacobs

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31. Even if rMoney is "rested and ready," Trump has a 319-delegate lead on him

Reply to PoliticAverse (Reply #23)

Thu Mar 3, 2016, 12:56 AM

Mar 2016

and rMoney has 15 fewer states to work with. Him, or anyone else who'd jump in at this late date, for that matter.
Not impossible, but he'd have to slaughter Trump in every major state between now and June.

Anything short of that is merely aiming for a brokered convention, which virtually guarantees a party split and disaster in November.

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