After the tumultuous events in Indiana,
Ohio Governor John Kasich, the only remaining opponent to billionaire
Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primaries, suspended his
campaign leaving Trump alone in the Republican race. Tuesday night
in the Nebraska Republican primaries Trump expectedly won the state
but with only 61.4 percent of the vote. The Cornhusker State is a
winner take all state so Trump walked away with all 36 delegates. On
the same night in West Virginia Trump won the primary with 77 percent
of the vote. The Mountain State is a proportional state with 34
total delegates to award. The full breakdown isn't available yet but
so far Trump has collected 30 of the delegates and Kasich has
collected one, meaning that Kasich is probably doing better not being
a candidate than when he was a candidate. Tuesday night leaves Trump
103 delegates away from claiming the Republican presidential
nomination.
Trump will go on to challenge himself
in the Oregon primaries on May 17th.
Despite gaining endorsements from some
notable Republicans, such as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the
list of Republicans stating that they won't vote for Trump, under any
circumstances, is growing to include such notable Republicans such as
President George H.W. Bush, President George W. Bush, Arizona Senator
John McCain, former New York Governor George Pataki, former Florida
Governor Jeb Bush, and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives Paul Ryan has started meeting with Trump to figure
out ways to unite the fracturing Republican party, however it is
clear that there are Republicans that will not be united behind Trump
in 2016. Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, a Republican
turned Libertarian who is the likely Libertarian presidential
nominee, needs to get his name out more along with his platform to
bring the Republicans that will not vote for Trump over to the
Libertarian party for 2016 before Former New York Senator Hillary
Clinton woos them into being a Democrat for 2016.
The Democrats also had a primary in
West Virginia where 29 delegates were at state. Vermont Senator
Bernie Sanders won the Mountain State with 51.4 percent of the vote.
Clinton only received 35.8 percent of the vote. Sanders collected 18
delegates and Clinton collected 11 delegates. This brings Sanders'
delegate total up to 1433, and he has 40 superdelegates pledged, and
Clinton's total up to 1716, and she has 524 superdelegates pledged.
Sanders needs to collect roughly 90 percent of all remaining
delegates to win the Democratic nomination (roughly 86 percent if you
count superdelegates) and Clinton needs to collect roughly 63 percent
of all remaining delegates to win the Democratic nomination (roughly
14 percent if you count superdelegates).
Sanders and Clinton will face off next
in Oregon and Kentucky on May 17th.
Return after the results on May 17th
for the next installment of The Campaign Trail 2016.
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