WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Schirach observed that Trump’s landslide victories over his two remaining challengers in five US primary state elections on Tuesday had built on his landslide victory in New York State the previous week and given him unprecedented credibility and momentum.
"Is Trump unstoppable now? Oh yeah. It’s in the bag for him," Schirach, head of the Global Policy Institute and e publisher and editor-in-chief of The Schirach Report, said on Wednesday.
Trump won the Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island primaries with more votes than his two challengers — US Senator Ted Cruz and Ohio Governor John Kasich combined.
"Since the New York primary [on April 19], Trump has been consistently above 50 percent in every race and that is a real change. He had never reached these levels of support among Republican voters before," Schirach noted.
It was now likely, Schirach pointed out, that Trump would win the additional delegates he needed to confirm the Republican presidential nomination in the remaining primary races in such states as Indiana, Oregon and California.
"The efforts of the Cruz-Kasich cabal to block Trump in the last stages of the race have failed irrevocably across the board. There is nothing there."
Even if Trump failed to reach the needed 1,237 number of delegates before the convention, he would have such a lead over Cruz, his nearest rival, that his case for the nomination would be unanswerable, Schirach continued.
"Trump may get to Cleveland still short of that 1,237 delegates figure. But even if he fails to reach it, he will not be very far short: It will be a matter of only 20 delegates or so, not 200 delegates short."
"That was a desperate move. Can it revive his fortunes? I really doubt it. I just don’t see Ted Cruz can create a credible firewall in the remaining primaries to stop Trump. I don’t think he can do it."
Moreover, Schirach said that Trump was also doing better on beating Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the presidential election in November, according to opinion polls testing such match ups.
"Some new polls have Trump neck and neck with Hillary. So the argument that you cannot nominate Trump because he will lose to Hillary by a landslide is no longer true factually."
Schirach suggested that the real question for Trump was whether he could re-engineer his perceived image with the general American public to be a candidate who could attract the support of a clear majority in November.
