Primary Standings

Posted by Tina

The primary races will come fast and furious now with voting over the weekend and another primary Tuesday night. In the Republican race the outcome has tilted slightly away from an inevitable Trump win with Ted Cruz strong wins in Texas, Alaska, Kansas, Maine, and Oklahoma. The current delegate count places Trump in the lead with 384 delegates, Cruz in second with 300 delegates, Rubio at 151, and Kasich 37. Carson has dropped out of the race.

Speculation mounts about a contested convention and an end to the party and it’s no wonder given the chaotic, contentious, rude state of a race that started with nineteen contenders and a bombastic outsider stirring the pot with outlandish and un-PC commentary. The reality is that two of the candidates are getting the majority of votes and within the next week there’s a good chance they will be the only ones left standing. One way or the other it will be difficult for the party elites to claim the people haven’t spoken because their preferences have been rejected by voters. I’m still pulling for Cruz. The longer this race goes on the more Trump appears to be a windbag with little substance to prop him up. America needs someone with substantive ideas and resolve…Trump is not that.

On the other side old Bernie is hanging tough and who can blame him? The leader in the race is a woman with baggage that should have sunk her eligibility long ago never mind her candidacy. Bernie’s voters will not all remain loyal to the party in the end. Some will simply not vote and others will migrate to Trump.