Ted Cruz, mauled by front-runner Donald Trump now has no chance of winning enough delegates to secure the Republican presidential nomination - even if he won every remaining race leading up to the party's National Convention in July.
A candidate needs 1,237 delegates to win the nomination, and after his series of primary losses in Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island on Tuesday, Cruz has only 560 delegates.
With 622 delegates still at stake before July, including 109 unpledged delegates, Texas senator Cruz mathematically could not make the cut even if he won each and every one, New York Daily News reported today.
Polls indicate Cruz, 45, is already destined to lose the early May primaries in Indiana, Nebraska and West Virginia, the paper noted in its analysis.
Meanwhile, Trump had 950 delegates ahead of Tuesday's votes, and earned at least another 105 after sweeping five states.
Cruz emerged from the five contests with exactly one delegate, from Rhode Island - fewer even than John Kasich, who won five from the same state.
63-year-old Kasich has less than zero chance at securing the nomination - the Ohio governor has 153 delegates, more than 1,000 short of a nomination.
Even their combined delegate count only gets them over the halfway mark for a nomination, and still falls short of Trump's current total, the report noted.
Soon after his triumph on Tuesday, Trump, the 69-year-old real estate billionaire, boasted about the apparent inevitability of winning the nomination, calling himself the "presumptive nominee" and saying Cruz and Kasich "should get out of the race."
But Cruz and Kasich have vowed to stay in the race - math be damned - in hopes of a contested convention.
