Breaking down the numbers, Trump has gotten the support of the majority from various demographic groups such as men, women, Republicans, independents, moderate GOP primary voters and conservatives. That’s what conventions are for”, Cruz said. “Whatever the establishment is, they should embrace what I’ve done”, he said on CNBC.
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“The effort within the Republican Party to stop Donald Trump from winning the presidential nomination appears unlikely to stop him from taking Florida’s delegate-rich winner-take-all primary”, said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University poll, in a written analysis.
“I think it is very important for them to reflect on what it is about the politics they’ve engaged in that allows the circus we’ve been seeing to transpire and to do some introspection because, ultimately, I want an effective Republican Party”. But if one were to add in all of Florida’s and Ohio’s delegates to Trump’s tally now, giving him 14 wins in the first 21 states, he would still have won only 53 percent of the delegates to date-meaning he’d still have to win about 48 percent of the delegates across the remaining 29 states.
Of particular importance in Tuesday’s races are winner-take-all contests in OH and Florida that will go a long way to determining whether frontrunner Donald Trump can put the race away outright or whether his rivals can force a contested convention in July. “There’s a tremendous hatred”.
At the same time, Trump is calling on mainstream Republicans to unify behind hm. He’ll meet privately with Florida Sen.
Bush and Trump engaged in heated confrontations throughout Bush’s campaign, the two repeatedly referring to each other as “loser”.
The GOP establishment’s overwhelming favourite, Florida Sen. “My kids were embarrassed by it, and if I had it to do over again I wouldn’t”, Rubio said on MSNBC Wednesday night. Rubio has at least 151 delegates and Kasich has at least 54. He’s won just two of more than 30 contests so far, but said he feels “optimistic” about his chances in the March 15 Florida presidential primary. Lindsey Graham of SC and Dean Heller of Nevada raised the possibility of Cruz as the alternative, but others stood firm in their support for Rubio and declined to even discuss the prospect of Cruz as their choice. Cruz is doing worse, winning only 34 percent.
He vowed not only to stay in the race for president, but said he’s the only Republican candidate who can beat front-runner Donald Trump.
“He was begging for my endorsement”, Trump recalls.
On the Democrat side, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders handed former secretary of state Hillary Clinton a surprise loss in the industrial state of MI, increasing the likelihood that the contest for the party’s nomination could stretch into early summer.
While Mr Sanders upset Mrs Clinton in MI, she increased her delegate lead by sweeping MS and is now halfway to the number needed to clinch the nomination.
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The spokesperson also confirmed the substance of the message, in which Romney tells voters to back “a candidate who can defeat Hillary Clinton and who can make us proud”.
