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Number of times George Pataki registered 0 percent in the 221 polls that asked about him. He earned more than 1 percent just 10 times and more than 2 percent only once, according to Five Thirty-Eight. “Put another way, you could add up Pataki’s support in every national, Iowa and New Hampshire poll and not reach 100 percentage points. His sum is only 83, or what Donald Trump gets through the summing of about two national polls these days.”
Three convention scenarios can emerge after 56 states and territories choose their delegates between Feb. 1 and June 7: There will be a clear winner, a bunched up field of several candidates, or a leader who can’t get a majority of delegates on the first ballot. The latter two scenarios would make Cleveland uncharted territory.
— Ben Ginsberg, the former counsel to both Mitt Romney’s and George W. Bush’s presidential bids, detailing the possible scenarios for the Republican convention in the Wall Street Journal.
