In Massachusetts, the NY businessman won with the largest margin of any state with 49 percent support compared with Rubio’s 18 percent support in a distant second place. He won decisively in Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Virginia and Tennessee, as well as in Vermont and MA, leaving delegate scraps to his remaining four rivals: Texas Sen. “I have always said, in order to have a better country, we have to elect better people”.
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That afternoon, a group of high-profile Republican donors held a conference call to solicit donations for an anti-Trump organisation. Trump will again take to the stage in yet another election season debate Thursday night in MI.
US Senator Lindsey Graham, who was once part of the 17-candidate Republican presidential field before quitting the race in December, long before the first votes were cast, described Trump on Tuesday as a “demagogue” who will lead the conservative party to defeat. Kasich said he wanted to battle with Trump on policy instead of name calling.
“I will rip to shreds this catastrophic nuclear deal” [with Iran], Cruz told the crowd, where both American and Israeli flags waved.
Mrs Clinton went on to try to draw a stark contrast between her campaign and some of the divisive rhetoric that has emerged from Mr Trump’s.
“Allies like Israel – we will always be on their side”, Rubio said. If Trump continues to meet or exceed those targets through the remainder of the primaries, he’ll end up with just enough delegates to secure the Republican nomination.
Romney advisers have recently sought information on a contested convention, though there appeared to be no concrete planning for that possibility and it was unclear whether their efforts signaled Romney’s own interest in becoming the GOP nominee through a floor fight, according to a Republican familiar with the efforts. “Once we get all of this finished, I’m going to go after one person, that’s Hillary Clinton”. Victories against Trump would not only keep their campaigns afloat, but would deny him crucial delegates in his fight to reach the requisite 1,237 delegates to clinch the nomination.
Trump won at least 234 delegates on Tuesday, and Cruz won at least 209.
Speaking of Clinton, the Justice Department has granted immunity to the staffer who set up her email while at the State Department, The Washington Post reports.
Clinton won seven out of 11 states up for grabs, even eking out a win in Sanders’ neighboring state of MA. Sanders received over 80% of the youth vote in Vermont and Oklahoma, two states he won.
Earlier Thursday, Trump dismissed Romney as “a stiff” who “didn’t know what he was doing” as the party’s candidate in 2012 and blew a chance to beat President Barack Obama. “A very good man, Ben Carson’s not there anymore, so now we’re going to have more time for the fighting”, he said.
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Trump later spoke out about the subject during a rally in Portland, Maine. By then, the media and Trump’s GOP rivals had spent five days attacking Trump over the issue and hand-wringing about the state of the Republican Party.
