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Three weeks ago, when we last took a detailed look at Donald Trump’s quest to win 1,237 delegates, his path looked rocky but endurable. The panel of eight experts FiveThirtyEight assembled projected Trump to wind up with 1,208 by the time California and four other states finished counting their votes on June 7, a number that would leave him tantalizingly close to clinching the Republican presidential nomination — probably close enough that he’d be able to get over the hump by persuading some uncommitted delegates to come his way before the convention.

Inside Ted Cruz’s novel strategy for winning from behind

Eight days before Republican voters in the state of New York would award a massive trove of 95 delegates, Ted Cruz stood three time zones away in a hotel ballroom packed with supporters eagerly awaiting his first California rally.

But first they would have to applaud some local elected officials. “We give the names and we give them one clap, and if you also want to say Cruz at the same time I will not object,” said Michael Schroeder, a Republican dignitary from the area.

Nationally, Donald Trump still has a double digit lead over his nearest competitor Ted Cruz, but his margin over Cruz has decreased. Now, 42 percent of Republican primary voters nationally would like to see Donald Trump as the Republican Party’s nominee, while 29 percent support Ted Cruz, and 18 percent back John Kasich.

Trump fights to fend off Cruz in upstate New York

Nearly seven thousand people turned out to see Donald Trump inside an old Air Force hangar here in western New York, despite getting less than 24 hours notice that the GOP frontrunner was coming here.

By the time the GOP frontrunner finally took the stage an hour behind schedule the cavernous room filled to its back wall.

Donald Trump, Losing Ground, Tries to Blame the System

Donald J. Trump and his allies are engaged in an aggressive effort to undermine the Republican nominating process by framing it as rigged and corrupt, hoping to compensate for organizational deficiencies that have left Mr. Trump with an increasingly precarious path to the nomination.

Their message: The election is being stolen from him.

Trump, Clinton officially win Missouri

Nearly a month after voters cast their ballots, the primary results in Missouri have finally been made official, and Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton can add the state to their list of wins.

On Tuesday, Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander tweeted: “This morning I certified the presidential preference primary. @HillaryClinton and @realDonaldTrump have officially won Missouri.”

Ted Cruz’s and Marco Rubio’s supporters have teamed up in Arkansas to pack the state delegation with individuals who’ll turn against Donald Trump in a contested convention.

Since Rubio ended his presidential bid March 15, his network of party insiders has lined up behind Cruz to win delegates who’d vote for the Texas senator once they’re no longer bound to Trump in a floor fight.