Liz Harrington joined Townhall's Guy Benson on Lou Dobbs Tonight Friday where the pair discussed new Fox News poll numbers for Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
The poll showed that in California, the billionaire frontrunner has a 27-point lead, and in the crucial state of Indiana he currently leads by eight points.
Harrington said that it would be a bad idea for either Cruz or John Kasich to announce their running mates before the Republican National Convention in July, seeing as both are mathematically eliminated from clinching the nomination before the convention.
"Let's face it, if he (Trump) wins Indiana, this race is pretty much over. He may not necessarily get all the way to 1,237, but he'll be close enough and all those unbound delegates that will be left for the picking for Trump to sell on a deal, he's likely to get some of those and push them over the top," Harrington said.
Harrington said that the demographics in Indiana are similar to the states that Cruz has won in the past.
"The reason why the Indiana poll is particularly important tonight is that we saw this week a big win in New York as expected for Donald Trump," Benson said. "We're expecting Donald Trump to again sweep and do very well next Tuesday in the northeastern blue states.
"Ted Cruz really needs to stop the bleeding and win Indiana. It's a state where he should be on some level, on paper, well-situated. If he's down eight points to Donald Trump in Indiana, there is real trouble in the Cruz campaign."
Indiana's primary is May 3, while California's primary is June 7.