Jonathan Chait comments on a pro-Trump newspaper endorsement from a newspaper run by a Trump relative. Hey, how could that possibly be biased? Anyway, its message is that Trump must be the perfect person to be president because he has all those supporters he has. And he'd be a much better president than Barack Obama because…wait. Didn't Barack Obama have even more supporters in the last two elections?
Nate Silver crunches the numbers on the remaining Republican primaries and comes to the conclusion that it all comes down to California on June 7. Trump could come up with the necessary 1,237 delegates to lock up the nomination, he could fall slightly short but be able to make it up by persuading uncommitted delegates or he could fall short enough to make that real difficult. At the moment, the third option is looking likely. This brings us to some scrambling that Jonathan Chait (him again) writes about here.
I still don't believe the Republicans are going to nominate — or even come close to nominating — anyone other than Donald or Ted. I especially don't believe this alleged strategy of getting people to vote for Cruz in order to stop Trump, and then bait-and-switch them to some other guy — unnamed now since Ryan took himself out of it. Sounds like a plan to make sure every single member of the party is pissed-off that his pick won fair and square and then got cheated out of the nomination. The only way it would work is if the "some other guy" is Dick Van Dyke since everybody loves Dick Van Dyke.