Brady says that’s unlikely, with Trump likely to win big states such as NY and New Jersey, as well as having a lead in some winner-take-all states.
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“We have to bring our party together”.
“There’s a strong coalition looking at going to the existing candidates, Cruz and Kasich, saying you need to cut a deal and find a unity ticket within the Republican Party”, he said. But the results virtually guarantee that the GOP primaries will rage all the way until the very last contests in California, New Jersey, New Mexico, Montana and South Dakota on June 7 – and possibly to a contested convention in July. Ted Cruz of Texas and Gov. John Kasich of Ohio.
Cruz would have to win about 80 percent of the delegates from here on out, which, barring an utter collapse of the Trump campaign, seems virtually impossible. “I mean, if it were you or me… we’d already be doing a perp walk outside of some courthouse somewhere”, Cornyn said, apparently alluding to the legal scrutiny surrounding her decision to use a personal email server to conduct State Department business, some of which has been shown to contain classified information.
Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, who is supporting Kasich, said there were “calls going back and forth between the Kasich-Rubio campaign” about the possibility of a joint ticket, though he said those conversations were preliminary. Cruz made a direct appeal on Tuesday. Lastly, we intend to keep our options open as to other avenues to oppose Donald Trump.
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz warned fellow Republicans Wednesday of dire consequences if the GOP establishment attempted to manipulate the delegate counts and RNC rules to give the nomination to a different candidate. If Donald Trump gets 50 percent of Republicans’ votes on May 17, for instance, 50 percent of Oregon’s convention delegates, or 14 of them, will be committed to Trump.
With 673 delegates, Trump needs to win about half of the rest of delegates in contention, Cruz needs to bag 80 per cent of them and Kasich has an impossible target of 114 percent of the total delegates yet to be won.
And on Trump, Jenner said that while the Republican front-runner says he would “good for women”, he “doesn’t say how”. “But it will be a much more hard process of healing the party than in a traditional primary fight”.
Especially if he doesn’t get the nomination! She claimed a fifth victory in Tuesday’s primaries, as rival Bernie Sanders conceded defeat in Missouri. Everyone should realize that “Clinton fatigue” is no excuse for electing a man such as Trump to the highest office in the land.
Borges said they have been working with state and local law enforcement and there is an extensive security plan in place as there would be at any convention. Given the strength of Trump’s populist movement, that would likely end up with the establishment’s alternative candidate polling well beneath both Trump and the now obvious Democratic nominee-in-waiting, Hillary Clinton, in November. After that, if no single candidate wins a majority, the delegates are free to vote for whomever they like.
“These are the base of the party”, said Michigan Republican Party chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel.
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And while members of Trump’s country clubs say they’ve seen less of the billionaire businessman as he’s ramped up his campaigning, Eric Kaplan, a doctor from Palm Beach Gardens and member of Trump’s golf club in Jupiter, recalled one recent visit.
