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Politics : Trump Victory in the Republican Primary
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From: bentway3/28/2016 10:12:48 AM
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Trump’s delegate danger

He’s beating Cruz at the ballot, but he’s months behind in the battle to make those wins count at the convention.

By Kyle Cheney
03/28/16 05:20 AM EDT

excerpt:

Trump is virtually certain to arrive in Cleveland with millions more votes than Cruz or John Kasich, but he could still fall short of clinching the nomination outright. That would throw the contest to the delegates — and if Cruz packs the arena with supporters, Trump could watch the nomination slip away from him. And he knows it.

“I have a guy going around trying to steal people's delegates. This is supposed to be America, a free America,” he said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “You know, welcome to the Republican Party. What's going on in the Republican Party is a disgrace. I have so many more votes and so many more delegates. And, frankly, whoever at the end, whoever has the most votes and the most delegates should be the nominee.”

Trump’s palpable frustration is a sign of how rapidly the hunt for delegates is overtaking the primary itself as the most critical battle in the 2016 GOP nominating process.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/donald-trump-delegates-republican-convention-221274#ixzz44CLXx6Mv
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