“We’re going to have great, great victories for this country”, Mr Trump said. “I think you’d have problems like you’ve never seen before”, he said.
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Trump stressed that he represents “many millions of people” who fervently support his candidacy. Trump strengthened his hand in the Republican race with wins in Florida, North Carolina, and IL but fell in OH to that state’s governor, John Kasich.
“Donald Trump could have generated unstoppable momentum had he won both OH and Florida”, said Sabato’s Crystal Ball.
Mr. Kasich referenced the event in his primary night speech, telling supporters: “Tomorrow, I’m going to Philadelphia”.
Donald Trump warned Wednesday that “riots” would break out if the GOP tries to deny him the Republican Party’s nomination.
“From a political standpoint, the easiest thing to have done on this campaign is jump on all those anxieties, make people angrier, more frustrated”, he said. “I have long thought the false idea of Rubio’s plausibility only served to keep party elites and donors and some in the press from looking at the reality of what was happening – Trump and Cruz – and jumping out the window”, Brock said.
Republican Donald Trump is claiming victories in North Carolina, Illinois and Florida.
The pair were locked in a tight battle in Missouri, with Trump slightly ahead – 40.8 percent to 40.7 percent – with 99 percent of votes vounted. While Kasich has so far only won one state, the number of states in Trump’s column rose to 18 with Tuesday’s results. After all, most Rubio supporters listed Cruz or Kasich as second choices. Many delegates who are bound to a particular candidate on the first ballot become free agents on subsequent votes.
Kasich is adamant he can win his party’s nomination at the convention and then move on to defeat Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich pumps his fist before speaking at his presidential primary election night rally in Berea, Ohio, on Tuesday, March 15, 2016. In any case, Clinton is still short of the necessary 2,383 delegates – a majority – to win the nomination.
“I think bad things would happen”, he added.
Trump, appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America, also criticized reports that Republicans who oppose his candidacy are talking about running their own candidate in the fall election.
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In mid-July, the Republican Party will announce its presidential candidate at its Cleveland convention, while the Democrats will announce theirs in Philadelphia.
