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Schoolyard fashion and they think that that only diminished him as a potential grown-nup in the room. now that you see mitt romney stand there in contrast to what we have heard from cruz and rubio and the others, don't you think there is a scenario if there is gridlock and the contested convention possibility that you yourself so interestingly communicated on "nightly news" and in our special coverage the other night, isn't mitt romney the grown-up alternative? >> well, it's a good question. let me try to explain it in the most simple of terms. we are on a college campus while trying to give y...

Doesn't have i believe 1,237 delegates that he's going to need on the first ballot to get the nomination, this thing could get pretty ugly. >> oh, but that's the key. the key is that donald trump has to win overwhelmingly. the people have to turn out. they have to see the tricks and maneuvers of the establishment and they have to win resoundingly so that we don't end up at a brokered convention where they will put up somebody like romney -- i mean rubio, who is clearly not the people's choice, and we have to make sure that the people who vote for donald trump, their voice is heard, their votes...

He's close to securing -- he's certainly in the lead with delegates, but he's not that close to securing the nomination yet. he could be much closer after march 15 with winner take all states like ohio and florida where we are now. but if ted cruz does well in texas border states, and if marco rubio does well with college-educated professionals in a place like north carolina, that could push this contest down to the end of the line. that's on june 7 when new jersey and california vote. so we could still have quite a long way until this is locked up. it could potentially not get locked up. he c...

Now. and in terms of where this goes from here, 1237, that's the number you need to be nominated, over the next week, we'll start to get into some other big states. this weekend, you'll have kansas, you'll have kentucky, you'll have caucuses in those states. louisiana will have a primary. next week, michigan is a big one. michigan is a state that john kasich has been targeting, but his campaign says they think donald trump can win there. and you get to the 15th, and that's where you get that winner take all state of florida. that's 99 delegates in that state alone. you'll have ohio, north caro...

With that in mind, and with a lot of other races settled, steve kornacki's got an eye on the delegate count, and what this means in terms of the overall formal mathematical race for the republican nomination. >> and i want to start by saying, look, this is really complicated math on the republican side. this is sort of an estimate here that we're putting together, a sort of back of the envelope calculations. but the key here, remember, on the republican side, you're looking for 1,237 delegates. we'll get to the scoreboard in just a minute. but to set it up, i want to explain something that's h...