Furthermore, the dearth of winner-take-all states overall — there are only eight — and their late place in the calendar could make it difficult for the rest of the field to catch up. Trump could also run the board in a couple of hybrid states that hold contests on March 15, as he did in South Carolina.

University of Georgia political science professor Josh Putnam, who is widely viewed as the authority on issues pertaining to delegate math, told The Hill, “If Trump does as well as he’s expected to on Super Tuesday next week and establishes a lead, and then goes on to win Ohio and Florida, it would pretty much be impossible to catch him.”

That’s how things are lining up, at least at this point in the race, with Trump having established himself as the prohibitive front-runner and the rest of the field fighting for his delegate scraps.

After Nevada’s caucuses on Tuesday night, Trump has 80 delegates, compared to 16 for Ted Cruz, 14 for Marco Rubio, five for John Kasich and three for Ben Carson.