Business mogul Trump got 47 percent of the vote in Arizona, followed by Cruz with 25 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich with 10 percent, according to The New York Times.
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“A majority of non-Trump supporters seem to be in favor of a brokered convention process at this point in the campaign, ” said pollster Patrick Murray.
Mar 24, 2016- Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton rebuked Republicans and defended North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in a counter-terrorism speech after deadly attacks in Brussels.
Former Romney adviser Ryan Williams said, “A year ago, if somebody told you that Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham would be endorsing Ted Cruz, you’d think they were insane”.
“The fact is that we still have about one in five Republican voters who are undecided about their prerference”, he says. Trump leads the delegate count with 738 of 1,237 needed to secure the nomination. Republicans who want him out consider him a spoiler and say Donald Trump will win the nomination if Kasich continues.
“You know, as I said, you probably know by now that most of the things that Donald Trump says have no basis in reality”, she said.
But large portions of the address boiled down to a general election response to hard-line rhetoric coming from Cruz and Trump. Ryan said, “Our political discourse, both the kind that we see on TV and the kind that we experience with each other… it does not have to be this way”.
Trump lashed out at Cruz over an ad featuring a nude photo of his wife, Melania, from a GQ Magazine photo shoot that reads “Meet Melania Trump”.
The day-after delegate math laid bare the challenge: Cruz needs to win 83 percent of the remaining delegates to overtake the front-runner.
“What we’re seeing all across the country is the momentum is with us”, Cruz told CNN. Trump won Arizona and Cruz took Utah in the latest state primary contests to represent the party in the November 8 presidential election.
“Turning our back on our alliances, or turning our alliance into a protection racket, would reverse decades of bipartisan American leadership, and send a unsafe single to friend and foe alike”, Clinton said.
Mr. Kasich announced his endorsement by Robert “Bud” McFarlane, who was national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan.
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“Senator Cruz is the only one who’s got a chance, other than Donald Trump, to win the nomination. It is unclear if Kasich will bleed off just enough votes to give Trump victories and delegates in states he would not otherwise have won”.
