Captain K's Super Tuesday Field Guide and Predictions
Topic: Elections
Yesterday, I detailed how Nikki Haley’s win in Washington, D.C.’s Republican primary amounts to a Pyrrhic victory – one that comes at such great cost that it equals long-term defeat. Yes, the “Queen of the Swamp” has a winning streak of one; however, any expectation of that streak to spark a dramatic U-turn is one founded in a belief in black magic.
These states will be holding Republican nominating contests today:
Alabama 50 delegates
Arkansas 40 delegates
Alaska 29 delegates (caucus)
California 169 delegates
Colorado 37 delegates
Maine 20 delegates
Massachusetts 40 delegates
Minnesota 39 delegates
North Carolina 74 delegates
Oklahoma 43 delegates
Tennessee 58 delegates
Texas 161 delegates
Utah 40 delegates (caucus)
Vermont 17 delegates
Virginia 48 delegates
865 delegates are at stake. Even if Trump were able to take 100% of them, he wouldn’t be able to formally clinch the nomination tomorrow; however, it is a certainty that he will mortally wound the Haley campaign by nightfall. Here is how I see things shaking out, with delegate apportionment rules found here:
