The Washington Times reports that, based on their analysis, Trump a majority of the unbound delegates last night from Pennsylvania’s pool of 54 unbound delegates:
Overcoming lingering concerns about his ground game, GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump collected a majority of the “unbound” delegates up for grabs in the Pennsylvania primary — denting his rivals’ hopes of winning over more of these delegates that will be free to vote for whomever they want on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention.
Mr. Trump captured at least 31 of the 54 unbound delegates up for grabs in Pennsylvania, according to a Washington Times analysis of the primary results.
The New York billionaire’s support on the first ballot is likely larger given that several of the other delegate candidates that were not committed to Mr. Trump before the primary planned to cast their first ballot for the candidate that won the popular vote in their congressional districts.
Mr. Trump also took home 17 of the winner-take-all “bound” delegates in Pennsylvania that must vote for him at the July convention after receiving more votes than Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Gov. John Kasich combined.
During an appearance on CNN “New Day” Wednesday, Mr. Trump celebrated his win and said his support among the unbound delegates out of Pennsylvania is going to grow.
The AP reports Trump as having won only 17 delegates from Pennsylvania, putting him at 954 delegates thus far. If you add these unbound delegates to his total, he’s at 984 and possibly a little more.
By my count there are about 502 delegates remaining. In order to keep Trump from getting to 1237, Cruz and Kasich would have to win over half of those remaining delegates. In order to really stop Trump from winning on the first ballot of the convention, they would have to win a lot more, probably closer to between 350 and 400.