WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump will collect at least 45 delegates for his victory in Indiana, putting him on a solid path to clinch the nomination and avoid a contested convention.
There are still 12 delegates left to be allocated.
Trump needs to win just 43 percent of the remaining delegates to capture the nomination by the end of the primaries on June 7.
He has won a majority of the delegates allocated so far.
Trump’s rivals, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, have been mathematically eliminated from reaching the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination before the convention. Their only hope is to block Trump and force a contested convention in which no one arrives with a majority of the delegates.
The AP delegate count:
Trump: 1,041.
Cruz: 565.
Kasich: 152.
