“Mainstream Christian activists, who view his angry outlook as antithetical to their faith; centrists, who see him as the most divisive politician in a generation; and national security experts, who have recoiled from his praise for autocrats like President Vladimir V. Putin of Russian Federation and believe he should not control nuclear weapons”.
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Donald Trump has the most delegates so far with 574, but that’s still only 46-percent of the total needed.
Amid the Republican chaos, Democratic front-runner Clinton focused on fundraising as her campaign begins to look ahead to the general election.
“I’m there to support Ted Cruz”, said Mike Farris, a Republican lawyer, as he left the Army and Navy Club, where the group met behind closed doors for close to three hours.
We call for a unity ticket that unites the Republican Party. “Republicans continued the trend of saying they felt betrayed by their party”.
Trump’s closest rival, Texas Sen. But his loss in OH raises the prospect that he won’t secure enough delegates to win the nomination outright before the party’s July convention in Cleveland.
“Riots aren’t necessarily a bad thing if it means it’s because it’s fighting the fact that our establishment Republican Party has gone corrupt and made a decision to ignore the voice of the people and ignore the process”, Hughes told CNN, Wednesday.
The West regularly lauds and supports people power movements that assert democracy over autocracy in less developed nations.
“When he gets clobbered in Arizona on Tuesday and in Wisconsin two weeks from Tuesday, he’s going to learn that’s fanciful – that he can’t and that he and Cruz will split the vote just like they did in MI and IL and give Donald Trump the delegates”, Morris said.
“If it ends up happening that we get to Cleveland and nobody has 1,237 delegates, that Donald has a whole bunch of delegates and I have a whole bunch of delegates and we come in neck and neck, then it is up to delegates to decide”, he added. With each primary and caucus victory, the pressure for prominent Republicans to take a stand on his candidacy greatly intensifies.
With anti-Trump Republicans frantically seeking scenarios to deny the billionaire businessman the GOP nomination, Trump suggested in a round of calls to morning TV shows that the party establishment already is starting to fall in line behind him.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich won his home state over Mr. Trump, 47-36. “In many cases, first time voters”, he continued.
Trump has won 47 percent of the delegates awarded so far, according to the Associated Press delegate count.
Nor will Republicans necessarily be anxious about the risk of endorsing Trump only to have a brokered convention select a different candidate this summer.
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Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich speaks at his presidential primary election rally in Berea, Ohio, March 15, 2016. That’s more support than he got from Republicans (36 percent) or independents (35 percent), so it’s possible that Trump won a few percentage points from enthusiastic Democrats in other open primary states as well. His campaign said it was not ruling out asking for a recount in Wednesday’s tight Missouri race. “I say, well, there are a lot of people running for president”.
Early on Wednesday, MSNBC projected Trump and Clinton would win Missouri in very tight races.
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With the state allocating most of its 172 delegates to the victor in each of its 53 congressional districts, Trump will have to close the deal with voters from Humboldt all the way down to the border where he wants Mexico to pay for a wall.
