GOP lawmaker: Trump will ‘probably win the thing outright’

Published May 2, 2016 4:11pm ET



Retiring Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., predicted Monday that Donald Trump would most likely win enough delegates to become the GOP nominee, and that all the talk of a contested convention would probably become moot.

“I think Trump is gonna probably win the thing outright with 1,237,” Salmon said on KFYI radio in Arizona. “It looks as though he’s going to win Indiana tomorrow night, I believe he’s gonna win California, his polling numbers there are very good.”

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