Trump team vows to win delegate majority as rivals prepare for open convention
Wash Post
NEW YORK —
Leaders of Donald Trump’s new campaign team said they have revised
targets that would make the real estate mogul the presumptive Republican
presidential nominee by mid-May and that would win him the delegates
needed to clinch the nomination before the party’s convention this
summer.
To do so, Trump would have to go on a month-long
hot streak, starting in New York on April 19, that would deliver a
sizable haul of delegates — including increased commitments from those
who are unbound — and silence the widespread talk that his unpopularity
and his campaign’s sloppy execution have made it nearly impossible to
avoid a contested convention.
The earliest Trump could
assemble the 1,237 delegates needed for the nomination is on the final
day of the primary season, June 7, when the big states of California and
New Jersey vote. Between now and then, he needs to win nearly
60 percent of the delegates still available — a higher percentage than
he has thus far.
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