Republican National Committee convention rules committee member Randy Evans predicted Wednesday that Donald Trump will become the nominee if he wins 1,100 delegates, because unbound delegates and delegates released by candidates who have dropped out of the race will get him to the required 1,237 number.
In an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Evans said, “What I do expect is this: Is that if Donald Trump exceeds 1,100 votes he will become the nominee, even though he may not have 1,237.”
“If he gets less than 1,000 delegates, then I think we’re looking at contested convention that could go on for many, many days,” he continued.
However, if Trump is “in the middle, that gray area between 1,000 and 1,100 … that’s where the unbound delegates or the delegates that have been released by other candidates come into play to see if there are enough of those to get either Cruz or Trump over the finish line. Now we won’t know that until we get past California in June.”
Of the current candidates, Trump currently has 743 delegates, Sen. [crscore]Ted Cruz[/crscore] has 545 delegates and Gov. John Kasich has 143.
Sen. [crscore]Marco Rubio[/crscore], who has dropped out, has 169 delegates.