Trump Losing Momentum

[hells_unicorn]

the only state to be a total fluke is Minnesota, given that Donald Trump was in third place.
He tended to come in first in those seven states, and second in roughly four of them. Alaska
may be going to Ted Cruz, but the difference between 1st and 2nd is close. Other races were
as tight in places, Donald Trump can loose small increments of his momentum over the next
few weeks but he's built up a buffer zone of delegates that takes him damn close to victory.

Minnesota is actually one of weirdest states in the country when it comes to ideology, they've tended to be obnoxiously left-wing in the past but were starting to become a bit more middle-of-the-road in the early 2000s, though lately they've trended back towards their roots. Minnesota is the only state that Reagan lost in 1984, and it's actually kinda hysterical that Rubio is claiming to be the standard-bearer for Reagan yet can't win any of the states that Reagan won in the general election in the freaking GOP primary.

Delegate-wise, Trump is in pretty comfortable shape, the only places where he really came up short were Oklahoma, Minnesota and Texas, and it looked like Trump wasn't trying to make a big play in Texas to begin with. The fact that Rubio couldn't land a single delegate in Texas is devastating, perhaps the only thing more devastating would be Rubio losing his own state, which will probably happen. The only person that looked like he might have been able to beat out Trump was Cruz, but the embarrassing losses that he had in Georgia, Alabama and Arkansas (supposedly his turf) makes that highly unlikely, apparently the bible-thumping folks in the southeast are a bit less prone to following a self-appointed savior than the ones in the mid-west.

 

[Jan2017]

The fact that Rubio couldn't land a single delegate in Texas . . .

100% now reported in Texas, with delegates 99-38-4 from this AP source . . .

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[TR="class: _xfj"]
[TH="class: _pYi"]100% reporting[/TH]
[TD]Delegates[/TD]
[TD="class: __k6tnJVz39zk _Vi _Wi, align: right"]Votes[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: _cfj _Vpj"]
[TD="class: _pYi"]Cruz (won)[/TD]
[TD="class: _pPi, align: center"]99[/TD]
[TD="class: __k6tnJVz39zk _Wi _Vi, align: right"]43.8%
1,239,370[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: _cfj _Dlj"]
[TD="class: _pYi"]Trump[/TD]
[TD="class: _pPi, align: center"]38[/TD]
[TD="class: __k6tnJVz39zk _Wi _Vi, align: right"]26.7%
757,618[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: _cfj _Dlj"]
[TD="class: _pYi"]Rubio[/TD]
[TD="class: _pPi, align: center"]4[/TD]
[TD="class: __k6tnJVz39zk _Wi _Vi, align: right"]17.7%
502,223[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]


including Carson and Kasich votes (not others) there then were 1,497,878 Texans that voted against Cruz