He remained optimistic of his chances in the race – saying a win for the Republicans was a win for America.
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Hillary Clinton won the Democratic presidential primary in her native IL, scoring her fourth victory over rival Bernie Sanders in Tuesday’s elections.
That sense of betrayal has doomed the regular, mainstream, and establishment Republicans.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio ended his once-promising campaign after a devastating home-state loss that narrowed the field to just three candidates: Trump, Kasich and Texas Sen.
John Kasich was the only other Republican candidate to claim a win his home state of OH, with 47 percent. Trump wins Illinois! Trump wins North Carolina.
Sanders is unlikely to overtake Clinton in the delegate count, but his victory last week in MI underscored the unease that many party voters have about her candidacy. After all, most Rubio supporters listed Cruz or Kasich as second choices. They could capture the political center by doing well among Hispanics and suburban women voters, two enormously important voting blocs. But Rubio is gone, Kasich almost so.
Missouri victories by Trump and Clinton could help solidify their status as front-runners. Trump’s negatives are sky high and Democrats would exploit all of them. Cruz, in contrast, has won 7 states.
He won the biggest prize – all 99 Florida delegates – as well as winning North Carolina and IL, and was locked in a tight race with Mr Cruz in Missouri. Losing 4-to-0 to Trump yesterday puts Cruz in a deep hole.
Kasich’s chief strategist, John Weaver, argued in a memo released after the OH result that no candidate was going to win the necessary delegates before the convention and Kasich would be the best Republican candidate to go up against Clinton. And he’ll have to step up his game to achieve even that.
Cruz said that only he and Donald Trump have a shot at winning the Republican nomination.
With the confusing delegate system we have in place, candidates need a certain amount of delegates to win the party nomination.
Trump talks about unifying the party, but that’s a dream at this point.
Clinton is part of the Democratic establishment, a former secretary of state, senator and first lady.
Trump won on the Republican side with 39 percent of the vote.
The Vermont senator spent $10.5 million in ads and got 2,354,056 votes. Trump may be rising, though he is still not getting close to a majority of the vote in most states.
Those delegates go to the national convention in July where the presidential nominee will be chosen.
“The biggest problem the Republicans have is it’s going to be awfully hard to take on Donald Trump at a convention unless he is seriously weakened on the path there”, said Feehery.
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Mr Trump said many of his supporters – disenfranchised Americans who normally steer clear of politics – were already seething about what they perceived as a political and economic system that was rigged against them.
