Leaked Trump Campaign Memo Reveals Big Delegate Prediction
Even as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, maintains that no one will win enough delegates to secure the Republican presidential nomination on the first ballot, the campaign of front-runner Donald Trump is predicting Trump will shatter the number needed for victory.
“The Cruz spin machine produces more lies than anything else,” says a memo distributed late Tuesday by the Trump campaign to Trump surrogates. “Our projections call for us to accumulate over 1400 delegates and thus a first ballot nomination win in Cleveland” . . .
The memo instructs Trump supporters to continue Trump’s line of criticizing the Republican National Committee for the method in which delegates are awarded . . .
As the Trump campaign boldly proclaimed it could hit a higher number than anyone has said, a Republican National Committee member affirmed his position that Trump would not need to win 1,237 delegates to ensure a first-round victory.
“Once you have 80 percent of the delegates, the idea that the 20 percent will deprive the 80 percent is not viable,” said Randy Evans, a member of the Rules Committee, who last week predicted that if Trump ended the primary season with 1,100 delegates he would be the nominee. “Historically, insiders want to remain insiders and the bandwagon effect always takes over.”
Evans noted that Trump could reach the number he needs to ensure eventual victory within the next few weeks of primaries. On Tuesday, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island go to the polls. That is followed by a May 3 contest in Indiana. The primary season wraps up June 7 with California (172 delegates alone), New Jersey, Montana and New Mexico voting then. (Read more from “Leaked Trump Campaign Memo Reveals Big Delegate Prediction” HERE)
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