PG45: Contested Conventions, Violent Rallies, Dreamy Prime Ministers, and Feminist Glaciology

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The primary races are once again the top story of the week. Mike and Jay start by looking at the state of the Republican race: Trump’s chances in Ohio and Florida, what happened to Rubio, and whether Cruz or Kasich have a real shot at the nomination. They also get into how a contested convention … Continue reading "PG45: Contested Conventions, Violent Rallies, Dreamy Prime Ministers, and Feminist Glaciology"Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.
0:17.3	Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Barronowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:23.5	My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist, Jay Carson.
0:29.9	Our top story this week is the state visit of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trude...
0:34.7	Well, okay, that's not actually our top story.
0:48.6	I just really wanted to say something other than the presidential primary race, but I've gotten that out of my system. And maybe we will get to the state visit of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
0:56.6	Always exciting when Canadians come to visit. Well, you know, it's been a while. But anyway, let's start with the Republicans on Tuesday.
1:00.9	Donald Trump won primaries in Hawaii, Michigan, and Mississippi.
1:04.6	Those are three states you often don't hear mentioned together, I don't think. And that, of course, expanded his delegate lead over Ted Cruz.
1:07.9	Now going into the big contest on the aides of March. That would be this
1:12.4	Tuesday, the 15th. Trump has 459 delegates to 360 for Cruz, followed by Rubio at 152, and
1:19.8	John Ksick still in their swinging at 54. Though at this point, I think the math is fairly clear.
1:25.9	Trump is the only one of the remaining four
1:28.2	candidates with a shot of winning the nomination outright at least before the convention in Cleveland.
1:33.2	I think the best the others can hope for is to keep him from getting to 1237, the magic number,
1:38.5	and fight it out on the floor in a contested convention, something we're going to talk about, I think,
1:43.1	a little bit later on in the podcast. And even Marco Rubio's communications director admitted as much when he urged
1:49.4	voters to choose Kasich over Rubio in the Ohio primary in an attempt to deny Trump a majority.
1:56.0	So what do you make of all this developments over the last week, Jay? Do you think?
2:00.7	Well, the math is what it is.
2:03.6	And I think you hit it right on the head.
2:06.3	And I think we even said this last week that at this point, there's no question of this really beating Trump in trying to get the delegate count, it's just a matter
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