But Cruz knows that, so he remains busy adding delegates using every trick in the book so he can be that some other candidate.
Senator Clinton's advisers were also discussing Wednesday how to add the delegates from Michigan and Florida to her column.
Senator Barack Obama had a victory over the weekend that didn't get much attention: he took the Democratic presidential caucuses in the Virgin Islands, riding a wave of black support on Saturday to add three delegates to his tally.
Despite Sanders finishing with around 51% of the vote in West Virginia (at the time of writing, 97% of votes had been counted), the Vermont senator ended the night with an additional 16 delegates, while Clinton added 11 delegates to her total.
I've managed to twist the arm of the organisers of the upcoming Being Digital conference, and those nice people at Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials who are sponsors, to add another delegate place for me to give away.
Overall, in the week after Super Tuesday on March 6th, Mr Romney added more delegates to his haul than Mr Santorum did.
Trump finished the night with 77% of the vote in West Virginia and 61% in Nebraska, adding 67 delegates to his total in the process.
In 1923, the Republican National Committee introduced rule changes billed as "seats for women"—that added bonus delegates for states that had voted Republican in the previous election.
As Mr. McCain logged victories in populous states, including California, and added more delegates to his count, he moved nearer his goal of wrapping up his competition with Mitt Romney of Massachusetts.
"Let us not give any further details, to keep the Israelis in confusion," he added, as delegates to the conference, televised live to the the Arab world on Hezbollah's own station and the independent satellite network Al Jazeera, rose in applause.
