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“I think if it’s an open convention, it’s very likely [the nominee] would be someone who’s not currently running,” Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday. | AP Photo Scott Walker: Open convention likely to pick 'someone who’s not currently running'

None of the remaining Republican presidential candidates is likely to emerge as the nominee from a contested convention in July, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday.

While Donald Trump has a 274-delegate lead over Ted Cruz in his pursuit to 1,237, the Republican front-runner still needs to win nearly 500 more delegates to secure a majority and the nomination outright. Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who has only won a single state thus far and has just 143 delegates, has maintained no one will head to Cleveland with 1,237, which would free delegates in most states to vote for any eligible candidate after the first ballot is cast.

“I think if it’s an open convention, it’s very likely [the nominee] would be someone who’s not currently running,” Walker said Thursday, according to Madison.com.

Speaking to reporters after signing a bill, the former presidential candidate, who dropped out in September, cautioned that many prognostications for this election cycle have been wrong.

“I mean, who knows. The one thing I qualify — it’s like the qualifications you see on those ads you see for car dealerships,” Walker said. “I think any of us who comments on this election [has] to qualify that almost every prediction’s been off, so it’s hard to predict anything.”

Walker has yet to endorse a candidate ahead of his state’s April 5 primary but indicated he has been in contact with Cruz and Kasich’s campaigns and would decide whether he would support either candidate in the coming days. On Wednesday, he hinted he was leaning toward Cruz, describing the Texas senator as “the only one who’s got a chance other than Donald Trump to win the nomination.”

As for Trump’s camp, Walker said he hasn’t heard “a peep.”

“In fact, I don’t know, other than the candidate, what kind of infrastructure, if anything, they have here, which is similar to what I hear from others around the country,” he said.

Kasich campaigned in Wauwatosa on Wednesday. Cruz will hold a rally in Janesville — home of U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan — later Thursday, and Trump will hold a town hall there Tuesday.

Reputable polls are scarce in Wisconsin, but an Emerson College poll released Thursday found Cruz leading Trump, 36 percent to 35 percent among likely GOP primary voters in Wisconsin, with Kasich trailing at 19 percent. The primary will be held on April 5.