Donald Trump's Persuasive Speech

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GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump has reached the magic number of 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the GOP presidential nomination according to AP delegate count released Thursday morning. According to the AP report, Trump has crossed the threshold by one of 1,238 delegates he obtained by a "small number of the party's unbounded delegates" who told the AP they would support him at the convention in Cleveland this July. Out of the 29 unbound Republican delegates, 15 of those unbound delegates came from North Dakota, 7 from Pennsylvania, 2 from West Virginia, 2 from Nevada and 1 each from Colorado, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma. Among those who sealed the deal were Oklahoma GOP chairwoman Pam Pollard, and Colorado GOP chairman Steve House …show more content…

Among the five states is California, the largest prize with 173 delegates are at stake. The sole candidate left running on the GOP side, Trump will easily add more delegates to his total, avoiding a messy contested convention. Speaking to reporters after securing the number to clinch the Republican nominee, Trump gloated that he secured the nomination before Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. "We were supposed to be going into July and here I am watching Hillary fight and she can't even close the deal," Trump said, during a press conference in North Dakota. "The folks behind me got us right over the top from North Dakota. We have had tremendous support from almost everybody." On debating Bernie Sanders, a prospect that originated Wednesday night on the show Jimmy Kimmel Live, Trump agreed to the idea only if money would be raised to be put up for charity. "I’d love to debate Bernie, he’s a dream," Trump replied when asked about a possible bipartisan debate. "I said, and I said last night, I would love to debate him but I want a lot of money to be put up for charity, women’s health issues. If we can raise $10 or 15m for

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