Trump’s real magic number

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There is now fairly broad agreement that Donald Trump can capture the Republican nomination even if he doesn’t quite get to the magic number of 1,237 delegates, as long as he’s close enough. But there’s no clear consensus on what constitutes “close enough.” So I decided to get a firmer sense of that by looking at the key variable: How many delegates will be unbound, or up for grabs, going into the Cleveland convention?

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