Donald Trump Impressively Sweeps All Five States

Donald Trump swept all five states under contention last night.  Pennsylvania, Maryland, Conneticut, Rhode Island, and Deleware.  Often he would win seventy percent of the vote in various places.  This election ends the dispute as to whether Trump can win over fifty percent of the vote in various areas.   In terms of Pennsylvania’s 54 unpledged delegates, the media has Trump picking a lot of these up.  There was 172 delegates up for grabs prior to the election and I would assume that Trump got maybe 130 of them.  The media didn’t say just how poorly Ted Cruz did except John Kasich out polled Cruz in a lot of states.  Next week even if Cruz wins Indiana with Kasich’s help that it won’t be enough because the results have already been baked into the cake.  Bernie is still a little defiant.  On the Democratic side, Sanders took Rhode Island but Hillary took the other four states.  But the media was a little slower last night to declare Hillary the winner of states than they were with Trump taking all five states.   First they had Hillary winning Maryland, then Pennsylvania and Delaware with Conneticut up for grabs,  I could have written most of this last night and perhaps I should have gotten off a post last night but I was lazy.  I’m going to call Judy today and ask how her prayers for Cruz are doing. 

Charles Koch equated Hillary with the Republicans in not trusting either party right off.  But he left the door open to Hillary.   Donald Trump is expected to pick up 150 out of 175 delegates in tomorrow’s haul.   Trump needs four hundred and he’ll still need 250 after tomorrow and there aren’t that many races left according to Goldman.  Even California doesn’t have the delegates to put Trump over the top.  The theory is that Trump delegates will switch to Cruz on subsequent ballots but Cruz supporters are expected to hang tight so that Cruz’s numbers can only grow whereas Trump’s numbers will shrink. 

  I had the Norman Goldman program on.  The polls close at five our time in all five states.  It looks like it will be a case of the front runners extending their lead.  Hillary will have a lead of three hundred delegates.  Before today she was ahead 2.7 million votes over her political rivals.  I haven’t shaved yet.  I used that time to use the facilities instead.  I haven’t decided whether I’ll do a blog entry today.  For dinner we had barbecue flavored pork shredded chunks and baked beans and corn.  Late arrival Judy gave me her bowl of corn.  We had chocolate pudding for dessert.  Ron gave me a brown cigarette but there were long butts in the ash tray.   People writing to me in E mail was way down as of yesterday. 

Last night they held a town hall with Hillary and Bernie and when asked whether Hillary will adopt some of Bernie’s key positions in the fall campaign, Hillary stated “Look, I have four million more votes than Bernie has” or something.  Stephanie has the Rude Pundit live for a second day in a row. This is Tuesday April 26, 2016 and it’s the five pack of states voting today.  And in order of population it’s Pennsylvania, Maryland, Conneticut, Rhode Islamd, with Delaware bringing up the rear.

This is after three and I have Norman Goldman on now.  President Obama is sending 250 troopers to Syria, which is a surgical strike or something.    Shawn Hannity says that twenty percent of the family households have nobody in that family who is employed.  If that’s true then the unemployment numbers are really bogus.  I had Shawn Hannity on over the noon hour and also after refreshment break.  I had Days of our Lives on and that show was an entire waste except Hope and Sierra moved back into their own house.  Also Hope and Raphael persuaded each other not to investigate the Demas case, in a decision that seemed startlingly sudden.  In other words since Hope is attracted to Raphael she’s no longer in avenging her dead husband’s death. 

I think a lot of us are starting to get Prince burn-out.  Who would have guessed that his death would eclipse all of the other rock stars that have died this year?  I guess Jeff said it when he said “Prince was always a little too gay for me even if the women loved him”.   Stephanie liked the album “Dirty Mind”.   I was the first person I know of that announced that Prince is with the Federation in the afterlife.   Stephanie Miller show was boring today.  I guess that was the Rude Pundit live but he’s less interesting in person.  If I don’t like the show I can always go for Bill Handle in the morning, where we can all Handel ourselves.  I turned down Larry for a cigarette and felt guilty and turned around in the hall and then froze.  I owe Larry a cigarette so will make sure he gets one.  I gave Mario a cigarette this morning in a promise for coffee I haven’t gotten.


Meet the Press featured Bernie Sanders in a more conciliatory mood toning down his anti Hillary rhetoric. Meanwhile there is a mood afoot to “Walk it back” as far as any anti Donald Trump movement among the Republican elite. Mitch McConnell walked it back saying perhaps the phrase about being ‘optimistic about a second ballot’ was out of line. They are all saying that they are as much as resigned to falling in line behind Trump. Judy won’t be happy. Trump is also expected to get 36 of those 54 uncommitted delegates in Pennsylvania. Of course they did have a lady from the Cruz campaign. But Kasich and Cruz are refusing to cooperate with one another in terms of “letting Kasich have one state and letting Cruz have another”.