Kasich taunts Cruz for losing path to 1,237 delegatesMSNBC | April 20, 2016 | Christina Coleburn
Gov. John Kasich mocked Sen. Ted Cruz on Twitter after the results of Tuesday’s primary rendered Cruz’s ability to clinch 1,237 delegates before the Republican National Convention “mathematically impossible,” a turn of phrase Cruz himself used previously to call for Kasich to drop out of the race.
Cruz, who finished far behind Donald Trump and Kasich in New York with only 15 percent of the vote, had frequently argued that Kasich did not have a feasible path to reach the 1,237 delegate threshold a candidate needs to secure the GOP nomination outright.
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“I think any candidate, if you don’t have a clear path to winning, it doesn’t make sense to stay in the race,” Cruz said.
But after Tuesday’s results in the Empire State, it’s clear that the senator also does not have a path to earn 1,237 delegates before the July convention, though he does boast more delegates than Kasich. Cruz holds 559 delegates, which Kasich trails with 147 delegates, according to NBC News’ delegate tracker.
Kasich and his strategists, in an attempt to insure that the senator’s previous statements about eligibility would come back to haunt him, compiled clips of Cruz’s remarks in a taunting tweet. Even Trump, who has 845 delegates and likely won’t meet the 1,237 threshold, either, weighed in on the situation, calling Cruz a “spoiler.”
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