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First Exit Polls Data

It’s probably fair to say that there are more question marks swirling around the 2016 US presidential election than any race for The White House in recent memory.

Donald Trump will go to the Republican convention in Cleveland with more delegates than anyone else. But it’s still possible he won’t have an outright majority. The mechanics of a contested convention have been covered at length in TAC and elsewhere. But what about the politics—who actually emerges as the Republican nominee?